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 . 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 . 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 will often require a still greater cadence of the voice . But before a speaker can be able to fall his voice with propriety and judginent at the close of a sentence , he must be able to keep it from falling , and to raise it ...
... passion will often require a still greater cadence of the voice . But before a speaker can be able to fall his voice with propriety and judginent at the close of a sentence , he must be able to keep it from falling , and to raise it ...
Página xxiii
... passion is uniformly taught by Nature , and is every where intelligible . It consists in the use of tones , looks , and gestures . When anger , fear , joy , grief , love , or any other passion is raised within us , we naturally discover ...
... passion is uniformly taught by Nature , and is every where intelligible . It consists in the use of tones , looks , and gestures . When anger , fear , joy , grief , love , or any other passion is raised within us , we naturally discover ...
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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