Lessons in Elocution: Or, A Selection of Pieces, in Prose and Verse, for the Improvement of Youth in Reading and Speaking. To which are Prefixed Elements of Gesture. Also, an Appendix, Containing Lessons on a New Plan |
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... speaker , and not the speaker on the subject . This it will be confessed , is a great desideratum ; and an attempt to this , is the prin- cipal object of the present publication . The difficulty of describing action by words , will ...
... speaker , and not the speaker on the subject . This it will be confessed , is a great desideratum ; and an attempt to this , is the prin- cipal object of the present publication . The difficulty of describing action by words , will ...
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... speaker who delivers himself singly to an auditory , and one who addresses another speaker , in view of an auditory , are under very different predica- ments . The former has only one object to address ; the Jatter has two . For if a ...
... speaker who delivers himself singly to an auditory , and one who addresses another speaker , in view of an auditory , are under very different predica- ments . The former has only one object to address ; the Jatter has two . For if a ...
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... speakers use the right hand , and stand exactly front- ing each other , the impropriety will be palpable , and the spectacle disgusting . It need scarcely be noted , that if the speaker in a scene , uses that hand which is next the ...
... speakers use the right hand , and stand exactly front- ing each other , the impropriety will be palpable , and the spectacle disgusting . It need scarcely be noted , that if the speaker in a scene , uses that hand which is next the ...
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... speaker ; but not too pertly . Modesty or submission , bends the body forward ; levels the eyes to the breast , if not to the feet , of the superior character . The voice low ; the tone submissive , and words few . Perplexity , or ...
... speaker ; but not too pertly . Modesty or submission , bends the body forward ; levels the eyes to the breast , if not to the feet , of the superior character . The voice low ; the tone submissive , and words few . Perplexity , or ...
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... speaker , occasions his drawing back , as avoiding the approach of what he hates ; the hands , at the same time , thrown out spread , as if to keep it off . The face turned away from that side toward which the hands are thrown out ; the ...
... speaker , occasions his drawing back , as avoiding the approach of what he hates ; the hands , at the same time , thrown out spread , as if to keep it off . The face turned away from that side toward which the hands are thrown out ; the ...
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Page 373 - And, like a man to double business bound, I stand in pause where I shall first begin, And both neglect. What if this cursed hand Were thicker than itself with brother's blood, Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens To wash it white as snow?
Page 378 - And you, good yeomen, Whose limbs were made in England, show us here The mettle of your pasture; let us swear That you are worth your breeding : which I doubt not; For there is none of you so mean and base, That hath not noble lustre in your eyes.
Page 384 - 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...
Page 380 - ... tis true, this god did shake ; His coward lips did from their colour fly, And that same eye whose bend doth awe the world Did lose his lustre : I did hear him groan : Ay, and that tongue of his that bade the Romans Mark him and write his speeches in their books, Alas, it cried, 'Give me some drink, Titinius,
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Page 381 - Romans, countrymen, and lovers! hear me for my cause ; and be silent that you may hear : believe me for mine honour; and have respect to mine honour, 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.
Page 248 - The Epitaph Here rests his head upon the lap of Earth A Youth, to Fortune and to Fame unknown; Fair Science frown'd not on his humble birth, And Melancholy mark'd him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere; Heaven did a recompense as largely send: He gave to Misery all he had, a tear, He gain'd from Heaven, 'twas all he wish'd, a friend.
Page 243 - Now came still Evening on, and 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...
Page 382 - I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke, But here I am to speak what I do know. You all did love him once, not without cause ; What cause withholds you then to mourn for him ? O judgment ! thou art fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason.
Page 276 - Now strike the golden lyre again: A louder yet, and yet a louder strain ! Break his bands of sleep asunder And rouse him like a rattling peal of thunder. Hark, hark ! the horrid sound Has raised up his head : As awaked from the dead, And amazed he stares around. Revenge, revenge...