Lessons in Elocution: Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse, for the Improvement of Youth in Reading and Speaking |
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... attention in the most respectable schools in this country . A laudable ambition of instructing youth , in the pronunciation and delivery of their native lan- guage , has made English speeches a very conspicuous part of those exhibitions ...
... attention in the most respectable schools in this country . A laudable ambition of instructing youth , in the pronunciation and delivery of their native lan- guage , has made English speeches a very conspicuous part of those exhibitions ...
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... attention must be paid , to keeping the hand in an ex- act line with the lower part of the arm , so as not to bend at the wrist , either when it is held out , without motion , or when it gives the emphatic stroke . And , above all , the ...
... attention must be paid , to keeping the hand in an ex- act line with the lower part of the arm , so as not to bend at the wrist , either when it is held out , without motion , or when it gives the emphatic stroke . And , above all , the ...
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... attention on his action , which ought to be directed to his pronunciation : He will al- ways be in a position which will not disgrace his figure , and when this gesture is easy to him , it may serve as a groundwork to something more ...
... attention on his action , which ought to be directed to his pronunciation : He will al- ways be in a position which will not disgrace his figure , and when this gesture is easy to him , it may serve as a groundwork to something more ...
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... attention of the lawyer ; as it may occasionally come in , not unusefully , in his pleadings , as well as any other stroke of ornament , or entertainment . Buffoonry , assumes an arch , sly , leering gravity . Must not quit its serious ...
... attention of the lawyer ; as it may occasionally come in , not unusefully , in his pleadings , as well as any other stroke of ornament , or entertainment . Buffoonry , assumes an arch , sly , leering gravity . Must not quit its serious ...
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... Attention , to an esteemed , or superior character , has the same aspect ; and requires silence ; the eyes often cast down upon the ground ; sometimes fixed on the speaker ; but not too pertly . Modesty or submission , bends the body ...
... Attention , to an esteemed , or superior character , has the same aspect ; and requires silence ; the eyes often cast down upon the ground ; sometimes fixed on the speaker ; but not too pertly . Modesty or submission , bends the body ...
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Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 361 - All this? ay, more: Fret till your proud heart break; Go, show your slaves how choleric you are, And make your bondmen tremble.
Page 237 - Yet he was kind, or if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.