Introduction to Shakespeare's Plays, Containing an Essay on OratoryJohn Bell; and C. Etherington, at York, 1773 - 57 páginas |
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... perfect acquaintance with the various diftinctions of virtue and vice ; he should be critically intimate with all the beau- ties and blemishes of the ancient writers ; he should be be an hiftorian and a logician ; poffeffing a correct ...
... perfect acquaintance with the various diftinctions of virtue and vice ; he should be critically intimate with all the beau- ties and blemishes of the ancient writers ; he should be be an hiftorian and a logician ; poffeffing a correct ...
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... perfect . " CICERO . " He to whom nothing can be added , has omit- " ted nothing that could adorn his work . " DEMOSTHENES . " Thou findeft thy difcourfes more replete with " flashes " flashes of wit , than mine - confess honestly ESSAY ...
... perfect . " CICERO . " He to whom nothing can be added , has omit- " ted nothing that could adorn his work . " DEMOSTHENES . " Thou findeft thy difcourfes more replete with " flashes " flashes of wit , than mine - confess honestly ESSAY ...
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... perfect orator , when thou wert like me- " fimple , grave , auftere , without apparent art ; " in a word , when thou wert Demofthenical : " but when wit , turn , and art fhone in thy dif- " courfes , " courfes , then wert mere Cicero ...
... perfect orator , when thou wert like me- " fimple , grave , auftere , without apparent art ; " in a word , when thou wert Demofthenical : " but when wit , turn , and art fhone in thy dif- " courfes , " courfes , then wert mere Cicero ...
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... perfect ; for all his ways are judgment . A God of truth and without iniquity - juft and right is he for the Lord's portion is his people . Jacob is the lot of his inheritance : he found him in a defart land ; and in the watte howling ...
... perfect ; for all his ways are judgment . A God of truth and without iniquity - juft and right is he for the Lord's portion is his people . Jacob is the lot of his inheritance : he found him in a defart land ; and in the watte howling ...
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... perfect inftruments . ? > Frequent use ftrengthens and meliorates the or- gans of expreffion , and practice will teach a molt effential point , that of pitching the voice to any place or number of perfons . There is confidera- ble ...
... perfect inftruments . ? > Frequent use ftrengthens and meliorates the or- gans of expreffion , and practice will teach a molt effential point , that of pitching the voice to any place or number of perfons . There is confidera- ble ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
againſt alfo Attorney at Law Bart Bawtry Birmingham Bookfeller Brutus Cæfar Capt Chriſtopher CICERO climax confiderable counter-tenor declamation DEMOSTHENES Devizes difgrace diftinguiſhed Edward effential emphafis eſpecially expreffed expreffion fame feems feldom fenfe fentence fet of cuts fets common feven fets fhall fhould fion firft firſt fix fets fleep fome forrow four fets fpeaker fpeaking ftrange ftyle fubject fuch fyllable fympathy George grief Henry himſelf hiſtory horror Inftance ISOCRATES itſelf James Jofeph John Junior King King Lear mafter Meffrs Mifs moft moſt muft muſt nature neceffary Newcaſtle Norwich obfervations orator oratory Othello paffages paffions Paufes pauſe perfon pleaſure poffefs Pontefract prefent purpoſes reafon refpiration Richard Richmond royal paper Samuel ſets Shakespeare ſhall ſpeak Stamford Suffex taſte Tenterden thee thefe themſelves theſe thofe Thomas thoſe thou three fets thro twelve fets underſtand uſe voice whofe William Wilts Wolverhampton woo't words worfe
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Página 41 - Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee: — I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. 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 45 - How that might change his nature, there's the question: It is the bright day that brings forth the adder; And that craves wary walking. Crown him? — that? And then, I grant, we put a sting in him, That at his will he may do danger with.
Página 48 - ... creeping like snail Unwillingly to school. And then the Lover, Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad Made to his mistress
Página 41 - Mine eyes are made the fools o' the other senses, Or else worth all the rest ; I see thee still, And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood, Which was not so before.
Página 35 - Farewell the tranquil mind ! Farewell content ! Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars, That make ambition virtue ! O, farewell ! Farewell the neighing steed, and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife, The royal banner ; and all quality. Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war ! And O, you mortal engines, whose rude throats The immortal Jove's dread clamours counterfeit, Farewell ! Othello's occupation's gone ! lago.
Página 38 - O my soul's joy ! If after every tempest come such calms, May the winds blow till they have waken'd death ! And let the labouring bark climb hills of seas, Olympus-high ; and duck again as low As hell's from heaven ! If it were now to die, 'Twere now to be most happy ; for, I fear, My soul hath her content so absolute, That not another comfort like to this Succeeds in unknown fate.
Página 30 - He is the Rock, his work is perfect : for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.
Página 40 - Which reason, joining or disjoining, frames All what we' affirm or what deny, and call Our knowledge or opinion ; then retires Into her private cell, when nature rests. Oft in her absence mimic fancy wakes To imitate her; but, misjoining shapes, Wild work produces oft, and most in dreams ; 111 matching words and deeds long past or late.
Página 30 - For the Lord's portion is his people ; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.
Página 45 - Tis a confummation Devoutly to be wifh'd. To die — to fleep — To fleep ' perchance to dream ? ay, there's the rub ; For in that fleep of death what dreams may come, When we have fhuffied off this mortal coil, Muft give us paufe.