An Essay on Elocution: With Elucidatory Passages from Various Authors to which are Added Remarks on Reading Prose and Verse, with Suggestions to Instructors of the ArtWeare C. Little, 1846 - 300 páginas |
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... objects . It aspires to the utmost heights of poetry , and furnishes one of the best tests by which an author's merits may be fairly judged ; for nothing but genius will supply this sublimely po- etic essential . Personification should ...
... objects . It aspires to the utmost heights of poetry , and furnishes one of the best tests by which an author's merits may be fairly judged ; for nothing but genius will supply this sublimely po- etic essential . Personification should ...
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... objects of nature may be apostrophized . The sun , a mountain , the ocean , a fountain , a grove- we may apostrophize those absent or one dead , as though they or he were present and listening to us . The rules already offered , bear ...
... objects of nature may be apostrophized . The sun , a mountain , the ocean , a fountain , a grove- we may apostrophize those absent or one dead , as though they or he were present and listening to us . The rules already offered , bear ...
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... objects , but they looked in vain , and closed forever . tear . " If in another world there be a pious mansion for the blessed ; if , as the wisest men have thought , the soul be not extinguished with the body ; may you enjoy a state of ...
... objects , but they looked in vain , and closed forever . tear . " If in another world there be a pious mansion for the blessed ; if , as the wisest men have thought , the soul be not extinguished with the body ; may you enjoy a state of ...
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... objects which have passed , or by anticipation may pass , or as absolutely passing before our eyes . It should never be resorted to but when the author's vivid imagination inspires and carries him be- yond himself ; then his readers ...
... objects which have passed , or by anticipation may pass , or as absolutely passing before our eyes . It should never be resorted to but when the author's vivid imagination inspires and carries him be- yond himself ; then his readers ...
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... object of this Essay ; but , now that the materials are abundantly supplied , the author trusts that he has shown how those materials may be used for the advantage of our youth , in the dis- play of one of the most noble structures that ...
... object of this Essay ; but , now that the materials are abundantly supplied , the author trusts that he has shown how those materials may be used for the advantage of our youth , in the dis- play of one of the most noble structures that ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
beautiful behold beneath blank verse blessed blood breath brow Brutus Cæsar called cause character clouds dark dead dead rise death deep delight Demosthenes dread earth ELOCUTION eloquence eternal fair fall Father feel fire Gael George Somers give glory grave Greece hand happy hath heard heart heaven honor hope human human voice inflections justice king liberty light live Lochiel look Lord ment mind mountain nation nature never night noble o'er passion patriot peace pride pronounced pronunciation raised religion rising rocks rolling clouds Roman Roman Forum Rome ruin Saxon scene seemed side smile soul sound speak spirit stood sublime sweet tears tempest temples thee Thermæ thine things thou thought throne tion unto vale VALE OF TEMPE Vespasian virtue voice vowels waves wild wind wings word
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Página 233 - NOT a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried.
Página 149 - As Caesar loved me, I weep for him; as he was fortunate, I rejoice at it; as he was valiant, I honour him ; but, as he was ambitious, I slew him.
Página 10 - IT must be so — Plato, thou reason'st 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.
Página 119 - Gentlemen may cry peace! peace! but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
Página 149 - Romans, countrymen, and lovers ! hear me for my cause, and be silent that you may hear : believe me for mine honor, and have respect to mine honor, 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 150 - Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; •> I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil, that men do, lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones; \ So let it be with Caesar.
Página 76 - For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. But by the grace of God I am what I am; and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
Página 73 - The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness...
Página 37 - She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the forefinger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners...
Página 38 - Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier, Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard, Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel, Seeking the bubble reputation Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice, In fair round belly with good capon...