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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Nature has given to every emotion of the mind its propa er outward expression ,
in such a manner , that what suits one , cannot by any means be accommodated
to another .. Children at three years of age express their grief in a tone of voice ...
Nature has given to every emotion of the mind its propa er outward expression ,
in such a manner , that what suits one , cannot by any means be accommodated
to another .. Children at three years of age express their grief in a tone of voice ...
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She undoes , by art , or rather by awkwardness ( for true art conceals itself ) all
that nature had done for her . Nature forined her almost an angel , and she , with
infinite pains , makes herself a monkey . Therefore this species of Affectation is ...
She undoes , by art , or rather by awkwardness ( for true art conceals itself ) all
that nature had done for her . Nature forined her almost an angel , and she , with
infinite pains , makes herself a monkey . Therefore this species of Affectation is ...
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But to apply properly , and in a masterly inanner , the almost endlessly various
expression of the different passions and emotions of the mind , for which nature
has so curiously fitted the human framemhic labor - here is the difficulty .
But to apply properly , and in a masterly inanner , the almost endlessly various
expression of the different passions and emotions of the mind , for which nature
has so curiously fitted the human framemhic labor - here is the difficulty .
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It is granted , that nature is the rule by which we are to speak and to judge of
propriety in speaking . And every public speaker , who faithfully , and in a
masterly manner , follows that universal guide , coinmands attention and
approbation .
It is granted , that nature is the rule by which we are to speak and to judge of
propriety in speaking . And every public speaker , who faithfully , and in a
masterly manner , follows that universal guide , coinmands attention and
approbation .
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In listening to the raptures of Corelli , Geminiani , and Handel , the flood of
pleasure which pours upon the ear , is almost too inuch for human nature . And
music applied to express the sublimities of poetry , as in the oratorio of Samson ,
and the ...
In listening to the raptures of Corelli , Geminiani , and Handel , the flood of
pleasure which pours upon the ear , is almost too inuch for human nature . And
music applied to express the sublimities of poetry , as in the oratorio of Samson ,
and the ...
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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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