The Art of Speaking: Containing. An Essay, in which are Given Rules for Expressing Properly the Principal Passions and Humours, which Occur in Reading, Or Public Speaking. And Lessons, Taken from the Ancients and Moderns; Exhibiting a Variety of Matter for Practice; the Emphatical Words Printed in Italics; with Notes of Direction Referring to the Essay ...S. Butler, 1804 - 291 Seiten |
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... object of wonder appears , they immedi- ately let it drop , unconscious ; and the whole body fixes in the contracted , stooping posture of amazement ; the mouth open ; the hands held up open , nearly in the attitude of fear . ( See Fear ...
... object of wonder appears , they immedi- ately let it drop , unconscious ; and the whole body fixes in the contracted , stooping posture of amazement ; the mouth open ; the hands held up open , nearly in the attitude of fear . ( See Fear ...
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... object of the passion . The eyes red , inflamed , staring , rolling , and sparkling ; the eyebrows drawn down over them ; and the forehead wrinkled into clouds . The nostrils stretched wide ; every vein swelled ; every muscle strained ...
... object of the passion . The eyes red , inflamed , staring , rolling , and sparkling ; the eyebrows drawn down over them ; and the forehead wrinkled into clouds . The nostrils stretched wide ; every vein swelled ; every muscle strained ...
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... object to object , without ever fixing steadily upon any one . A thousand different and incoherent passions , looks , ges- tures , speeches and absurdities , are played off every moment . Distraction opens the eyes to a frighful ...
... object to object , without ever fixing steadily upon any one . A thousand different and incoherent passions , looks , ges- tures , speeches and absurdities , are played off every moment . Distraction opens the eyes to a frighful ...
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... object of their ridicule . It is not enough , as Quintilian * says , to be a human creature , to make a good speaker . As , on one hand , it is not true , that a speak- er's shewing himself in earnest is alone sufficient , so on the ...
... object of their ridicule . It is not enough , as Quintilian * says , to be a human creature , to make a good speaker . As , on one hand , it is not true , that a speak- er's shewing himself in earnest is alone sufficient , so on the ...
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... object capable of making such vari- ous , and such forcible impressions upon the human mind , as a consummate speaker . In viewing the artificial cre- ations , which flow from the pencil of a Raphael , the crit- ical eye is indeed ...
... object capable of making such vari- ous , and such forcible impressions upon the human mind , as a consummate speaker . In viewing the artificial cre- ations , which flow from the pencil of a Raphael , the crit- ical eye is indeed ...
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Accufing Affectation Alarm Anger anguish Anxiety Apology Apprehen arms Authority Bevil blood body breast Cæsar Caius Verres Complaint Contempt countenance countrymen Courage daugh daughter dead death defence demnation Demosthenes Diodotus Doubt enemy Exciting expreffed express eyes Falstaff father favour fear gentleman Ghost give gods Greece Grief hand happiness hear heart heaven honour honour's worship hope Horror humour Humph Iago imagine Intreating Jugurtha king Longh look Lord mankind manner matter Merc mercy Micipsa mind mouth Narration nature Nick Bottom offended orator Othello passions patricians person Peter Quince phatical Pity Pray preachers pretend pride Queſtion Quin Quintilian Refufing Remonftr Reproof Roman Scythians shame shew Shyl Shylock Sicily soul speak speaker speech ſpoken Styx Submiffion Surpriſe thee thing thou thought thousand guineas tion utter Vexation virtue voice Volsci whole Wonder words
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Seite 122 - It must be so — Plato, thou reasonest well ; Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought ? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? Tis the divinity that stirs within us ; 'Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man ! Eternity ! thou pleasing, dreadful thought ! Through what variety of untried being, Through what new scenes...
Seite 166 - It must not be; there is no power in Venice Can alter a decree established: 'Twill be recorded for a precedent; And many an error, by the same example, Will rush into the state: it cannot be.
Seite 173 - I stand in pause where I shall first begin, And both neglect. What if this cursed hand Were thicker than itself with brother's blood, Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens To wash it white as snow?
Seite 143 - Cassius, now Leap in with me into this angry flood, And swim to yonder point ? ' Upon the word, Accoutred as I was, I plunged in And bade him follow : so indeed he did. The torrent roar'd, and we did buffet it With lusty sinews, throwing it aside And stemming it with hearts of controversy ; But ere we could arrive the point proposed, Caesar cried ' Help me, Cassius, or I sink...
Seite 143 - As a sick girl. Ye gods ! it doth amaze me A man of such a feeble temper should So get the start of the majestic world And bear the palm alone.
Seite 161 - Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?
Seite 167 - Take then thy bond, take thou thy pound of flesh; But, in the cutting it, if thou dost shed One drop of Christian blood, thy lands and goods Are, by the laws of Venice, confiscate Unto the state of Venice.
Seite 125 - Nine years!' cries he, who, high in Drury Lane, Lull'd by soft zephyrs through the broken pane, Rhymes ere he wakes, and prints before Term ends, Obliged by hunger, and request of friends: 'The piece, you think, is incorrect? why take it, I'm all submission; what you'd have it, make it.
Seite 123 - To whom the goblin full of wrath replied. «Art thou that traitor- Angel, art thou He> Who first broke peace in Heaven ; and faith, till then Unbroken, and in proud rebellious arms Drew after him the third part of Heaven's sons...
Seite 122 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.