Lessons in Elocution: Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse, for the Improvement of Youth in Reading and SpeakingH. Brown, 1817 - 407 páginas |
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... face the corner of it next to the audience ; and use that hand , and rest upon that leg , which is next to the person he speaks to , and which is farthest from the audience . This disposition is absolutely necessary , to form any thing ...
... face the corner of it next to the audience ; and use that hand , and rest upon that leg , which is next to the person he speaks to , and which is farthest from the audience . This disposition is absolutely necessary , to form any thing ...
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... face , to express wonder ; sometimes held out be- fore the 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 ...
... face , to express wonder ; sometimes held out be- fore the 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 ...
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... face being furnished with a variety of muscles does more in expressing the passions of the mind than the whole human frame besides . The change of colour ( in white people ) shews , by turns , anger by red ness , and sometimes by ...
... face being furnished with a variety of muscles does more in expressing the passions of the mind than the whole human frame besides . The change of colour ( in white people ) shews , by turns , anger by red ness , and sometimes by ...
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... face is some- what difficult ; though not so hard , I should think , as to restrain the contrary sympathy , I mean of weeping with those who weep . Joy , when sudden and violent , expresses itself by clapping of hands , and exultation ...
... face is some- what difficult ; though not so hard , I should think , as to restrain the contrary sympathy , I mean of weeping with those who weep . Joy , when sudden and violent , expresses itself by clapping of hands , and exultation ...
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... 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 beats violently ; the breath is ...
... 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 beats violently ; the breath is ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
action admire agreeable akimbo Alderman appear arms beauty body breast Calais cerned Cesar cheerful Chrysippus Cicero command consider countenance creatures Curiatii death delight Dendermond desire Dovedale earth elocution express eyebrows eyes fear fortune friends gestures give gnashes grace grief hand happy hath head heart heaven honor hope human Jugurtha Keswick kind labor Lady Lady G live look Lord manner mind modesty mouth nature ness never o'er object observe pain passion person Petrarch pleasure Pompey portunity praise privy counsellor pronunciation proper Quintillian Rhadamanthus rise Roman Rome says scene sense sentence shews Sicily side smile sometimes soul sound speaker speaking specta speech spirit sweet taste tears thee thing thou thought tion tone truth turn Twas uncle Toby utterance violent virtue voice whole words young youth
Passagens conhecidas
Página 219 - Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Página 369 - She'd come again, and with a greedy ear Devour up my discourse. Which I observing, Took once a pliant hour; and found good means To draw from her a prayer of earnest heart, That I would all my pilgrimage dilate...
Página 243 - Twilight gray had in her sober livery all things clad : Silence accompanied ; for Beast and Bird, they to their grassy couch, these to their nests, were slunk, — all but the wakeful nightingale; she, all night long, her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleased. Now...
Página 361 - All this? ay, more: Fret till your proud heart break; Go, show your slaves how choleric you are, And make your bondmen tremble.
Página 237 - Yet he was kind, or if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault...
Página 220 - The sober herd that low'd to meet their young ; The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool, The playful children just let loose from school ; The watch-dog's voice, that bay'd the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind ; These all in sweet confusion sought the shade, And fill'd each pause the nightingale had made.
Página 236 - Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent: Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part, As full, as perfect, in a hair as heart; As full, as perfect, in vile man that mourns, As the rapt seraph that adores and burns: To him no high, no low, no great, no small; He fills, he bounds, connects, and equals all.
Página 354 - Why, well : Never so truly happy, my good Cromwell. I know myself now ; and I feel within me A peace above all earthly dignities, A still and quiet conscience.
Página 253 - Orphean lyre, I sung of Chaos and eternal Night ; Taught by the heavenly muse to venture down The dark descent, and up to reascend, Though hard and rare : thee I revisit safe, And feel thy sovereign vital lamp ; but thou Revisitest not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn ; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs, Or dim suffusion veiled.
Página 362 - There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats, For I am arm'd so strong in honesty That they pass by me as the idle wind, Which I respect not.