Lessons in Elocution, Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse: For the Improvement of Youth in Reading and SpeakingHill and Moore, 1820 - 384 páginas |
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... breast , to shew fear ; spread forth with the hands open , to express desire or affection ; the hands . clapped in surprise , and in sudden joy and grief ; the right hand clenched , and the arms brandished , to threat- en ; the two arms ...
... breast , to shew fear ; spread forth with the hands open , to express desire or affection ; the hands . clapped in surprise , and in sudden joy and grief ; the right hand clenched , and the arms brandished , to threat- en ; the two arms ...
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... breast , unless one hand covers the eyes , or rubs the forehead ; draws down the eye brows ; hangs the head : upon the breast ; casts down the eyes , shuts and pinches the eyelids close ; shuts the mouth , and pinches the lips close ...
... breast , unless one hand covers the eyes , or rubs the forehead ; draws down the eye brows ; hangs the head : upon the breast ; casts down the eyes , shuts and pinches the eyelids close ; shuts the mouth , and pinches the lips close ...
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... breast . The arms are bended at the elbows , the fists are clenched hard ; the veins and muscles swelled ; the skin livid ; and the whole body strained and violently agitated ; groans , ex- pressive of inward torture , more freequently ...
... breast . The arms are bended at the elbows , the fists are clenched hard ; the veins and muscles swelled ; the skin livid ; and the whole body strained and violently agitated ; groans , ex- pressive of inward torture , more freequently ...
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... breast , so that the palms face the dreadful object , as shields opposed against it . One foot is drawn back behind the other , so that the body seems shrinking from the danger , and putting itself in a posture for flight . The heart ...
... breast , so that the palms face the dreadful object , as shields opposed against it . One foot is drawn back behind the other , so that the body seems shrinking from the danger , and putting itself in a posture for flight . The heart ...
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... breast . Denying , is expressed by pushing the open right hand from one ; and turning the face the contrary way . See Aversion . Differing , in sentiment , may be expressed as refus- ing . See Refusing .. Agreeing in opinion , or ...
... breast . Denying , is expressed by pushing the open right hand from one ; and turning the face the contrary way . See Aversion . Differing , in sentiment , may be expressed as refus- ing . See Refusing .. Agreeing in opinion , or ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
action admire appear arms beauty behold blood body breast Brutus Carthaginians Cesar charm Cicero Clodius creatures Curiatii daugh dear death delight Dovedale e'en earth enemy eternal eyes fair father fear fortune friends give glory gods grace hand happy hath head hear heart heaven honor hope hour human Jugurtha kind king Lady G laws live look Lord mankind manner master ment Micipsa Milo mind morning nature never night noble Numidia o'er once pain passion Patricians peace person pleasure Plebeian Pompey praetor praise privy counsellor Rhadamanthus rise Roman Rome Sardinia sense Sicily side smile soldiers soul sound Spain speak spirit sweet tears tell thee thing thou thought thousand tion Trim truth Twas uncle Toby Urim and Thummim virtue voice whole word young youth
Passagens conhecidas
Página 349 - Cromwell, I did not think to shed a tear In all my miseries; but thou hast forc'd me Out of thy honest truth to play the woman. Let's dry our eyes: and thus far hear me, Cromwell ; And, — when I am forgotten, as I shall be ; And sleep in dull cold marble...
Página 230 - Soft roll your incense, herbs, and fruits, and flowers, In mingled clouds to Him whose Sun exalts, Whose breath perfumes you, and whose pencil paints. Ye forests, bend, ye harvests, wave to Him ; Breathe your still song into the reaper's heart, As home he goes beneath the joyous Moon.
Página 374 - I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke, But here I am to speak what I do know. You all did love him once, not without cause ; What cause withholds you then to mourn for him ? O judgment ! thou art fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason.
Página 373 - Romans, countrymen, and lovers ! hear me for my cause, and be silent, that you may hear : believe me for mine honour, and have respect to mine honour, that you may believe : censure me in your wisdom, and awake your senses, that you may the better judge. If there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of Caesar's, to him I say that Brutus' love to Caesar was no less than his.
Página 356 - Caius Cassius so? When Marcus Brutus grows so covetous, To lock such rascal counters from his friends, Be ready, gods, with all your thunderbolts; Dash him to pieces!
Página 366 - The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despis'd love, the law's delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin...
Página 231 - tis nought to me; Since God is ever present, ever felt, In the void waste as in the city full ; And where He vital breathes there must be joy.
Página 254 - Married to immortal verse ; Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed and giddy cunning ; The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony ; That Orpheus...
Página 262 - The bottles twain, behind his back, were shattered at a blow. Down ran the wine into the road, most piteous to be seen, Which made his horse's flanks to smoke as they had basted been. But still he...
Página 363 - My story being done, She gave me for my pains a world of sighs: She swore, in faith, 'twas strange, 'twas passing strange; 'Twas pitiful, 'twas wondrous pitiful: She wish'd she had not heard it, yet she wish'd That heaven had made her such a man...