The rhetorical class book; or, The principles and practice of elocution defined; with selections from popular writers [ed.] by H. InnesHenry Innes (teacher of elocution) 1834 |
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... dead , to live all freemen ' ? Europe was one great field of battle , where the weak struggled for freedom ' , and the strong for dominion . The king was with- out power ' , and the nobles without principle ' . They were tyrants at home ...
... dead , to live all freemen ' ? Europe was one great field of battle , where the weak struggled for freedom ' , and the strong for dominion . The king was with- out power ' , and the nobles without principle ' . They were tyrants at home ...
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... dead , to live all freemen ' ? Europe was one great field of battle , where the weak struggled for freedom ' , and the strong for dominion . The king was with- out power ' , and the nobles without principle ' . They were tyrants at home ...
... dead , to live all freemen ' ? Europe was one great field of battle , where the weak struggled for freedom ' , and the strong for dominion . The king was with- out power ' , and the nobles without principle ' . They were tyrants at home ...
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... dead , and the body poising itself on the right leg , as before , continues with the right arm extended , till the end of the succeeding sentence ; and so on , froin right to left , and from left to right , alternately , till the speech ...
... dead , and the body poising itself on the right leg , as before , continues with the right arm extended , till the end of the succeeding sentence ; and so on , froin right to left , and from left to right , alternately , till the speech ...
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... dead forgotten lie ; Their mem❜ry and their name is gone , Alike unknowing and unknown . Their hatred and their love is lost , Their envy bury'd in the dust ; They have no share in all that's done Beneath the circuit of the sun . Then ...
... dead forgotten lie ; Their mem❜ry and their name is gone , Alike unknowing and unknown . Their hatred and their love is lost , Their envy bury'd in the dust ; They have no share in all that's done Beneath the circuit of the sun . Then ...
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... dead : Run hence , proclaim , cry it about the streets ! CALLING . Rejoice , you men of Angiers , ring your bells ! King John , your king and England's , doth approach : Open your gates and give the victors way . 1 FORCE OF EMOTION , On ...
... dead : Run hence , proclaim , cry it about the streets ! CALLING . Rejoice , you men of Angiers , ring your bells ! King John , your king and England's , doth approach : Open your gates and give the victors way . 1 FORCE OF EMOTION , On ...
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accent Admira Appre battle beauty Behold blood bosom brave breast breath Caius Verres called choly Cicero CIRCUMFLEX courage dark dead death deep Describ dread Duke earth emphasis EXAMPLES expression falling inflection father fear feelings final doom give glory Glossin glottis grave hand hath Hatteraick heard heart heaven hension honour hope Horror Indigna justice king land larynx light live Lochiel look Lord Macbeth manner melan Members.-RULE ment mercy mind Narrating nature ness never night o'er oratorical declamation passion pause Peter Quince Pity poetry Port pronounced racter Ralph Rogers Remon rising inflection RULE Scythians sentence Shakspeare Shyl Shylock SIEGE OF CORINTH Simple Series singing solemn song sorrow soul sound speak speech spirit steed strance sword Teaching tears thee thine things thou thought tion tone Twas Vehe voice wave wild words
Popular passages
Page 4 - To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been ; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean ; This is not solitude ; 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unroll'd.
Page 103 - Why should that name be sounded more than yours ? Write them together, yours is as fair a name ; Sound them, it doth become the mouth as well ; Weigh them, it is as heavy ; conjure with 'em, Brutus will start a spirit as soon as Caesar.
Page 97 - War, he sung, is toil and trouble, Honour but an empty bubble; Never ending, still beginning, Fighting still, and still destroying; If the world be worth thy winning, Think, O think, it worth enjoying: Lovely Thais sits beside thee, Take the good the gods provide thee ! — The many rend the skies with loud applause; So Love was crown'd, but Music won the cause.
Page 123 - Unskilful he to note the card Of prudent lore, Till billows rage, and gales blow hard, And whelm him o'er ! Such fate to suffering worth is...
Page 98 - And unburied remain Inglorious on the plain: Give the vengeance due To the valiant crew! Behold how they toss their torches on high, How they point to the Persian abodes And glittering temples of their hostile gods. The princes applaud with a furious joy: And the king seized a flambeau with zeal to destroy; Thais led the way To light him to his prey, And like another Helen, fired another Troy!
Page 21 - Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides. Come, and trip it, as you go, On the light fantastic toe; And in thy right hand lead with thee The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty ; And if I give thee honour due, Mirth, admit me of thy crew, To live with her, and live with thee, In unreproved pleasures free...
Page 96 - Changed his hand and checked his pride. He chose a mournful muse Soft pity to infuse : He sung Darius great and good, By too severe a fate Fallen, fallen, fallen, fallen, Fallen from his high estate, And weltering in his blood ; Deserted, at his utmost need, By those his former bounty fed ; On the bare earth exposed he lies With not a friend to close his eyes.
Page 29 - Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before.
Page 125 - And as the soldiers bore dead bodies by, He call'd them untaught knaves, unmannerly, To bring a slovenly, unhandsome corse Betwixt the wind and his nobility.