The Science and Art of Elocution and Oratory: Containing Specimens of the Eloquence of the Pulpit, the Bar, the Stage, the Legislative Hall, and the BattlefieldC. M. Saxton, 1858 - 407 páginas |
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... fear of offending the frightful fugitive in his flight . 10. The vile vagabond ventured to vilify the venerable veteran . 11. We wandered where the whirlpool wends its winding way . 12. The stripling stranger strayed straight through ...
... fear of offending the frightful fugitive in his flight . 10. The vile vagabond ventured to vilify the venerable veteran . 11. We wandered where the whirlpool wends its winding way . 12. The stripling stranger strayed straight through ...
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... fear , we serve a mon- arch whom we love , a God whom we adore . MONOTONE . 1. The monotone in Elocution is the continuation of speaking , with little or no variation of pitch . 2. Nature has given it an exalted place in oratory , and ...
... fear , we serve a mon- arch whom we love , a God whom we adore . MONOTONE . 1. The monotone in Elocution is the continuation of speaking , with little or no variation of pitch . 2. Nature has given it an exalted place in oratory , and ...
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... fear . They start in terror ; they stamp in au- thority , or anger ; they kneel in submission , and prayer . 6. " The organs of the body must be attuned to the organs of the mind . " The eye and gesture must often coincide in the same ...
... fear . They start in terror ; they stamp in au- thority , or anger ; they kneel in submission , and prayer . 6. " The organs of the body must be attuned to the organs of the mind . " The eye and gesture must often coincide in the same ...
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... fear of yet greater ones . Every feature , nerve , and circumstance about him is in- tensely animated ; each almost seems as if it would speak . discern his inmost soul , I see it as only clad in some thin , tra > parent vehicle . It is ...
... fear of yet greater ones . Every feature , nerve , and circumstance about him is in- tensely animated ; each almost seems as if it would speak . discern his inmost soul , I see it as only clad in some thin , tra > parent vehicle . It is ...
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... fear , would speedily extinguish whatever there might be of light - just as the owl , and the bat , and the mole , if they were promoted to the government of the solar system , would extinguish the sun , because its beams arrested their ...
... fear , would speedily extinguish whatever there might be of light - just as the owl , and the bat , and the mole , if they were promoted to the government of the solar system , would extinguish the sun , because its beams arrested their ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
angel ANONYMOUS arms art thou beautiful Blackletter bless blood bosom breath bright Brutus Cæsar called Canute Capt CIRCUMFLEX cried dark dear death Demosthenes dread earth Elocution eloquence ergy eternal expression eyes FALLING INFLECTION fame FANNY FERN father fear feel fire forever friends give glory grave hand happy hast head hear heard heart heaven honor hope human human voice land LESSON liberty light lips live look Lord Madame Roland mind mountain nature never noble o'er ocean Offa old oaken bucket once peace poor prickly pears Quiz rising roll round Sir Ch smile Snacks soul speak speech spirit stand stars storm sweet tears tell thee thing thistles thou thought throne tion Tom Long Twas Twill voice waves wife wild words young youth Zounds
Passagens conhecidas
Página 192 - There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it: I have killed many: I have fully glutted my vengeance: for my country I rejoice at the beams of peace. But do not harbour a thought that mine is the joy of fear.
Página 149 - Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery ! Our chains are forged ; their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable — and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come! It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, peace; but there is no peace.
Página 148 - Sir, we are not weak, if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. Three millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us.
Página 132 - She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty; and she glides Into his darker musings with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness ere he is aware. When thoughts Of the last bitter hour come like a blight Over thy spirit, and sad images Of the stern agony, and shroud, and pall, And breathless darkness, and the narrow house...
Página 226 - Caesar carelessly but nod on him. He had a fever when he was in Spain ; And, when the fit was on him, I did mark How he did shake...
Página 134 - So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan that moves To the pale realms of shade, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
Página 97 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.
Página 45 - I ask gentlemen, sir, What means this martial array, if its purpose be not to force us to submission? Can gentlemen assign any other possible motive for it? Has Great Britain any enemy, in this quarter of the world, to call for all this accumulation of navies and armies?
Página 134 - Will share thy destiny. The gay will laugh When thou art gone, the solemn brood of care Plod on, and each one as before will chase His...
Página 191 - I appeal to any white man to say, if ever he entered Logan's cabin hungry, and he gave him not meat, if ever he came cold and naked, and he clothed him not.