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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... passion , that their use is extremely frequent and in ordinary conversation , when men are heated , they prevail as much as in the most sublime oratory . The unfigured literal use of interro- gation is to ask a question ; but when men ...
... passion , that their use is extremely frequent and in ordinary conversation , when men are heated , they prevail as much as in the most sublime oratory . The unfigured literal use of interro- gation is to ask a question ; but when men ...
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... passion , you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness ; hold , as ' twere , the mirror up to nature ; show virtue her own feature , scorn her own image , and the very age and body of the time , his form and ...
... passion , you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness ; hold , as ' twere , the mirror up to nature ; show virtue her own feature , scorn her own image , and the very age and body of the time , his form and ...
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... passion so universal , or steals into the heart more imperceptibly , and covers itself under more disguises , than pride ; and yet at the same time , there is not any single view of human nature , under its pre- sent condition , which ...
... passion so universal , or steals into the heart more imperceptibly , and covers itself under more disguises , than pride ; and yet at the same time , there is not any single view of human nature , under its pre- sent condition , which ...
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... . It is more prudent to pass by trivial offences , than to quarrel for them ; by the last you are even with your adversary , but by the first above him . Passion is a sort of fever in the mind , SELECT SENTENCES . 57.
... . It is more prudent to pass by trivial offences , than to quarrel for them ; by the last you are even with your adversary , but by the first above him . Passion is a sort of fever in the mind , SELECT SENTENCES . 57.
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... Passion is a sort of fever in the mind , which always leaves us weaker than it found us . Conquer your passions : it will be more glorious for you to triumph over your own heart , than it would be to take a citadel . Defile not your ...
... Passion is a sort of fever in the mind , which always leaves us weaker than it found us . Conquer your passions : it will be more glorious for you to triumph over your own heart , than it would be to take a citadel . Defile not your ...
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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 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 ruins Saxon scene seemed side smile soul sound speak spirit stood sublime sweet sword 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
Passagens conhecidas
Página 272 - The sky is changed ! — and such a change ! Oh night, <- : ) And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman ! Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder ! Not from one lone cloud, But every mountain now hath found a tongue, And Jura answers, through her misty shroud, Back to the joyous Alps, who call to her aloud ! xciii.
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 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. The noble Brutus Hath told you Caesar was ambitious: If it were so it was a grievous fault; And grievously hath Caesar answer'd it. Here, under leave of Brutus, and the rest (For Brutus is an honorable man; So are they all, all honorable men), Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral.
Página 152 - I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts: I am no orator, as Brutus is; But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man, That love my friend; and that they know full well That gave me public leave to speak of him: For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech, To stir men's blood: I only speak right on; I tell you that which you yourselves do know...
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 150 - He hath brought many captives home to Rome, Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill; Did this in Caesar seem ambitious? When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept; Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious, And Brutus is an honorable man.
Página 271 - Cameron's gathering" rose, The war-note of Lochiel, which Albyn's hills Have heard,— and heard, too, have her Saxon foes; How in the noon of night that pibroch thrills Savage and shrill! But with the breath which fills Their...
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...
Página 134 - It serves always to distract the Public Councils, and enfeeble the Public Administration. It agitates the Community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms; kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection.
Página 76 - For he hath put all things under his feet! "But when he saith all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted which did put all things under him. And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him that God may be all in all.