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 ... |
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Affectation of piety , turns up the goggling whites of the eyes to heaven , as if the
person were in a trance , and fixes them in that posture so long that the brain of
the beholder grows giddy . Then comes up , deep - grumbling , a holy groan from
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Affectation of piety , turns up the goggling whites of the eyes to heaven , as if the
person were in a trance , and fixes them in that posture so long that the brain of
the beholder grows giddy . Then comes up , deep - grumbling , a holy groan from
...
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This is your only true tyrant's Diređing . vein . Your lovyer's vein is more upon the
condoling and congratulating . Now , Peter Quince , Authority . name the rest of
the players . Quin . Francis Flute , Bellows - mender . Affectation Flute .
This is your only true tyrant's Diređing . vein . Your lovyer's vein is more upon the
condoling and congratulating . Now , Peter Quince , Authority . name the rest of
the players . Quin . Francis Flute , Bellows - mender . Affectation Flute .
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Affectation Nev . O ! I understand you . You want my of learning . opinion upon
some of the difficulties in philosophy , as , for example , Whether substance and
accident , are terms synonymous or equivocal , with regard to the being 3
Vexation ...
Affectation Nev . O ! I understand you . You want my of learning . opinion upon
some of the difficulties in philosophy , as , for example , Whether substance and
accident , are terms synonymous or equivocal , with regard to the being 3
Vexation ...
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Affectation . Longh . and 2 The affair I want to consult Intreating . Nev . together >
Speech was given to man on Affe & ation you about , Dr. Neverout , is this ; I have
had purpose , that by it he might express his thoughts ; thoughts of marrying a ...
Affectation . Longh . and 2 The affair I want to consult Intreating . Nev . together >
Speech was given to man on Affe & ation you about , Dr. Neverout , is this ; I have
had purpose , that by it he might express his thoughts ; thoughts of marrying a ...
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Affectation . Doubt . That may be , or it may not be . . Anxiety . Longh . The young
lady I had made choice of , is very young , and very handsome . Affectation .
Doubt . That may be , or it may not be . Anxiety . Longh . Do you think , I shall do ...
Affectation . Doubt . That may be , or it may not be . . Anxiety . Longh . The young
lady I had made choice of , is very young , and very handsome . Affectation .
Doubt . That may be , or it may not be . Anxiety . Longh . Do you think , I shall do ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
Affectation Alarm Anger Anxiety appears Apprehen arms Authority better blood body cause character Contempt Courage daughter dead death defence desire direct Doubt drawn earth enemy Exciting express eyes fall father fear force gained Ghost give given gods Grief hand happiness head hear heart heaven hold honour hope Horror human imagine Intreating judge kind king learning leave live Longh look Lord mankind manner matter means mind mouth nature never object occasion once orator passions person Pity poor Pray present pride proper Queſtion raise reason rise Roman shew soul speak speaker speech stand suffer sure Teaching tell thee thing thou thought thousand tion turn utter Vexation virtue voice whole Wonder
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Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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?
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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?
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Informação bibliográfica
| Título | 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 ... |
| Autor | James Burgh |
| Editora | S. Butler, 1804 |
| Original de | Universidade de Michigan |
| Digitalizado | 7 Set 2007 |
| Número de páginas | 291 páginas |
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