The Art of Speaking: Containing, I. An Essay; in which are Given Rules for Expressing Properly the Principal Passions and Humours, ... II. Lessons Taken from the Ancients and Moderns ...T. Longman, T. Field, C. Dilly, W. Goldsmith, D. Ogilvy and J. Speare, 1792 - 373 Seiten |
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... utter , in fo cold and un - animated a man- ner . I happened lately to hear the tenth chapter of Joshua read in a church in the country . It contains the history of the miraculous conqueft of the five kings , who arose against the ...
... utter , in fo cold and un - animated a man- ner . I happened lately to hear the tenth chapter of Joshua read in a church in the country . It contains the history of the miraculous conqueft of the five kings , who arose against the ...
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... utter every paffage with all the force he can ; to fet off , the more ftrongly , the more emphatical parts ; as the painters , by means of fhades properly placed , make the figures ftand off bolder . For if the speaker has uttered a ...
... utter every paffage with all the force he can ; to fet off , the more ftrongly , the more emphatical parts ; as the painters , by means of fhades properly placed , make the figures ftand off bolder . For if the speaker has uttered a ...
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... utter every paffion of the human mind , and touch the foul of the fpectator , as if the picture , or sta- tue , poke the pathetic language of Shakespear . It is no wonder , then , that mafterly action joined with powerful elo- cution ...
... utter every paffion of the human mind , and touch the foul of the fpectator , as if the picture , or sta- tue , poke the pathetic language of Shakespear . It is no wonder , then , that mafterly action joined with powerful elo- cution ...
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... utter- ance ; and puts him upon making a thousand gestures and grimaces , to keep himself in countenance ; all which only heighten the confufion of his appearance . Remorfe , or a painful fense of guilt , cafts down the coun- tenance ...
... utter- ance ; and puts him upon making a thousand gestures and grimaces , to keep himself in countenance ; all which only heighten the confufion of his appearance . Remorfe , or a painful fense of guilt , cafts down the coun- tenance ...
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... utter thoughts , fo trifling , as to be bardly worth uttering at all ! And what unnatural and unfuitable tones of voice , and geficulations , do others apply , in delivering what , by their With ravish'd ears The monarch hears ; Affumes ...
... utter thoughts , fo trifling , as to be bardly worth uttering at all ! And what unnatural and unfuitable tones of voice , and geficulations , do others apply , in delivering what , by their With ravish'd ears The monarch hears ; Affumes ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Accus AFFECT againſt APOL APPREHENS arms becauſe body Caius Verres confequence confiderable CONT CONTEMPT dead death defign defire Diodotus doft Doub enemy ENQU expreffed eyes faid fame father fear fecure feem feen fenfe fentence feven fhall fhew fhould fleep fome fometimes foon foul fpeaker fpeaking fpeech ftate ftill fubjects fuch fuffer fufficient fuperior fuppofe fure Ghoft Ghoſt Greece GRIEF hand heaven himſelf honour hope HORROR Humph Iago INTR INTREAT itſelf Jugurtha king leaſt lefs loft Longh look manner matter moft moſt muft muſt myſelf NARRA Nick Bottom Numidia occafion orator ourſelves paffage paffions perfon Peter Quince PITY pleafing pleaſe pleaſure Pray prefent QUEST Quintilian raiſe reafon REMON rife Roman ſay Scythians ſhall Shyl Shylock ſpeak ſpoken ſtate thee thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe thou thought TION uſed VENERA VEXAT voice whofe whoſe wife words
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 115 - The bell strikes One. We take no note of time But from its loss : to give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours. Where are they? With the years beyond the flood.
Seite 92 - Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn, Sure pledge of day, that crown'st the smiling morn With thy bright circlet, praise Him in thy sphere, While day arises, that sweet hour of prime.
Seite 100 - To sigh for ribands if thou art so silly, Mark how they grace Lord Umbra or Sir Billy. Is yellow dirt the passion of thy life ? Look but on Gripus or on Gripus
Seite 44 - Our words flow from us in a smooth continued stream, without those strainings of the voice, motions of the body, and majesty of the hand, which are so much celebrated in the orators of Greece and Rome. We can talk of life and death in cold blood, and keep our temper in a...
Seite 93 - His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and, wave your tops, ye Pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave. Fountains, and ye that warble, as ye flow, Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise.
Seite 240 - With eyes darting fury, and a countenance distorted with cruelty, he orders the helpless victim of his rage to be stripped, and rods to be brought ; accusing him, but without the least shadow of evidence, or even of suspicion, of having come to Sicily as a spy.
Seite 210 - I'll look up; My fault is past. But, O, what form of prayer Can serve my turn? 'Forgive me my foul murder?
Seite 276 - Awaked, should blow them into sevenfold rage And plunge us in the flames? or from above Should intermitted vengeance arm again His red right hand to plague us?
Seite 93 - Of Nature's womb, that in quaternion run Perpetual circle, multiform ; and mix And nourish all things ; let your ceaseless change Vary to our great Maker still new praise.
Seite 145 - O thou that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion, like the god Of this new world, at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads, to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere...