The Speaker, Or, Miscellaneous Pieces Selected from the Best English Writers and Disposed Under Proper Heads: With a View to Facilitate the Improvement of Youth in Reading and Speaking : to which are Prefixed Two Essays, I. On Elocution, II. On Reading Works of TasteF.C. and J. Rivington, 1815 - 346 páginas |
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... passion to rags , to very tatters , to split the ears of the groundlings . " Cicero compares such speakers to cripples , who get on horseback because they cannot walk : they bellow , because they cannot speak . RULE III . 6 . Acquire ...
... passion to rags , to very tatters , to split the ears of the groundlings . " Cicero compares such speakers to cripples , who get on horseback because they cannot walk : they bellow , because they cannot speak . RULE III . 6 . Acquire ...
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... passion , thinks worse than he speaks ; and an angry man that will chide , speaks worse than he thinks . Better to reign in Hell , than serve in Heav'n . He rais'd a mortal to the skies ; She drew an angel down . When any term , or ...
... passion , thinks worse than he speaks ; and an angry man that will chide , speaks worse than he thinks . Better to reign in Hell , than serve in Heav'n . He rais'd a mortal to the skies ; She drew an angel down . When any term , or ...
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... passion ( for ex- ample , Shakspeare's speech of Hamlet to the Ghost " ) in the same unimpassioned manner in which he would read an or- dinary article of intelligence . Even in silent reading , where the subject interests the passions ...
... passion ( for ex- ample , Shakspeare's speech of Hamlet to the Ghost " ) in the same unimpassioned manner in which he would read an or- dinary article of intelligence . Even in silent reading , where the subject interests the passions ...
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... passions . But in this part of his office pre- cept can afford him little assistance . To describe in words the particular expression , which belongs to each emotion and passion , is , perhaps , wholly impracticable . All attempts to ...
... passions . But in this part of his office pre- cept can afford him little assistance . To describe in words the particular expression , which belongs to each emotion and passion , is , perhaps , wholly impracticable . All attempts to ...
Página xxxi
... passion of the heart . Whatever is grand or beautiful in nature ; whatever is noble , lovely , or singular , in character ; whatever is surpris- ing or affecting in situation ; is by the magic power of genius brought at pleasure into ...
... passion of the heart . Whatever is grand or beautiful in nature ; whatever is noble , lovely , or singular , in character ; whatever is surpris- ing or affecting in situation ; is by the magic power of genius brought at pleasure into ...
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