A Practical Manual of Elocution: Embracing Voice and Gesture : Designed for Schools, Academies and Colleges, as Well as for Private LearnersSorin & Ball, 1845 - 331 pages |
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... , if we look at the great moral movements of the day . Whenever the eyes of the public centre on any human agent , as destined under Providence to effect any great moral reform , who is he but some one 16 INTRODUCTION .
... , if we look at the great moral movements of the day . Whenever the eyes of the public centre on any human agent , as destined under Providence to effect any great moral reform , who is he but some one 16 INTRODUCTION .
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... effects follow as certainly as when Demos- thenes or Henry spoke in the senate house , or at the bar , and as certainly as when Whitefield electrified the multi- tudes who everywhere thronged - not more to hear the 2 * INTRODUCTION . 17.
... effects follow as certainly as when Demos- thenes or Henry spoke in the senate house , or at the bar , and as certainly as when Whitefield electrified the multi- tudes who everywhere thronged - not more to hear the 2 * INTRODUCTION . 17.
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... effect of their discourses , solely on a favorable combination of circumstances , or on their weight of cha- rácter , or even on mere force of thought or eloquence of language . The " ornaments of eloquence " must be super- added ...
... effect of their discourses , solely on a favorable combination of circumstances , or on their weight of cha- rácter , or even on mere force of thought or eloquence of language . The " ornaments of eloquence " must be super- added ...
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... effect to the expression of thought and feeling , and which , when properly employed , constitute the external graces of elo- quence . Fifth , it will teach him the principles on which these elements are to be employed the most ...
... effect to the expression of thought and feeling , and which , when properly employed , constitute the external graces of elo- quence . Fifth , it will teach him the principles on which these elements are to be employed the most ...
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... effect . The only dif ference between reading and speaking , as regards the principles of this branch of elocution , is , that the latter presupposes more emotion , and consequently admits a more forcible application of its principles ...
... effect . The only dif ference between reading and speaking , as regards the principles of this branch of elocution , is , that the latter presupposes more emotion , and consequently admits a more forcible application of its principles ...
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Page 144 - And let those that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them : for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the mean time, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered: that's villainous; and . shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.
Page 174 - Caesar carelessly but nod on him. He had a fever when he was in Spain ; And, when the fit was on him, I did mark How he did shake...
Page 131 - The gay will laugh When thou art gone, the solemn brood of care Plod on, and each one, as before, will chase His favorite phantom ; yet all these shall leave Their mirth and their employments, and shall come And make their bed with thee.
Page 110 - Perhaps thou gavest me, though unfelt, a kiss ; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss ; Ah, that maternal smile, it answers yes ! I heard the bell tolled on thy burial day, I saw the hearse that bore thee slow away, And, turning from my nursery window, drew A long, long sigh, and wept a last adieu ! But was it such ? It was.
Page 129 - HAIL, holy Light, offspring of Heaven first-born! Or of the Eternal coeternal beam May I express thee unblamed? since God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity — dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate!
Page 165 - Julius bleed for justice' sake ? What villain touch'd his body, that did stab, And not for justice ? What, shall one of us, That struck the foremost man of all this world But for supporting robbers, shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes, And sell the mighty space of our large honours For so much trash as may be grasped thus ? — I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, Than such a Roman.
Page 112 - You say you are a better soldier: Let it appear so; make your vaunting true, And it shall please me well. For mine own part, I shall be glad to learn of noble men. Cas. You wrong me every way, you wrong me, Brutus; I said, an elder soldier, not a better: Did I say better?
Page 210 - Muse, that on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That shepherd, who first taught the chosen seed, In the beginning how the Heavens and Earth Rose out of Chaos...
Page 150 - This fellow's of exceeding honesty, And knows all qualities, with a learned spirit, Of human dealings. If I do prove her haggard, Though that her jesses were my dear heart-strings, I 'ld whistle her off and let her down the wind, To prey at fortune.
Page 174 - I cannot tell what you and other men Think of this life, but, for my single self, I had as lief not be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself.