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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... hand neither horizontal nor vertical , but exactly between both . The position of the arm , perhaps will be best des- cribed , by supposing an oblong hollow square formed by the measure of four arms as in plate I , where the arm in its ...
... hand neither horizontal nor vertical , but exactly between both . The position of the arm , perhaps will be best des- cribed , by supposing an oblong hollow square formed by the measure of four arms as in plate I , where the arm in its ...
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... hand , as if lifeless , must drop down to the side , the very moment the last accen- ted word is pronounced ; and the body , without altering the place of the feet , poise itself on the left leg , while the left hand raises itself into ...
... hand , as if lifeless , must drop down to the side , the very moment the last accen- ted word is pronounced ; and the body , without altering the place of the feet , poise itself on the left leg , while the left hand raises itself into ...
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... hand , so necessarily keeps the elbow out , that it would not be improper to make the pupil some- times practise it , though he may have no defect in his make ; as an occasional alteration of the former position to this , may often be ...
... hand , so necessarily keeps the elbow out , that it would not be improper to make the pupil some- times practise it , though he may have no defect in his make ; as an occasional alteration of the former position to this , may often be ...
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... hand open , and the thumb at some distance from the fingers ; and particular attention must be paid , to keeping the hand in an exact line with the low- er part of the arm , so as not to bend at the wrist , either when it is held out ...
... hand open , and the thumb at some distance from the fingers ; and particular attention must be paid , to keeping the hand in an exact line with the low- er part of the arm , so as not to bend at the wrist , either when it is held out ...
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... hand , and stand exactly fronting each other , the im- propriety 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 audience , he ought like ...
... hand , and stand exactly fronting each other , the im- propriety 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 audience , he ought like ...
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Page 366 - 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 350 - For I can raise no money by vile means: By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash By any indirection...
Page 236 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour: The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Page 362 - Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.
Page 261 - The praise of Bacchus then the sweet musician sung : Of Bacchus ever fair and ever young : The jolly god in triumph comes ! Sound the trumpets, beat the drums ! Flush'd with a purple grace He shows his honest face : Now give the hautboys breath; he comes, he comes! Bacchus, ever fair and young, Drinking joys did first ordain ; Bacchus...
Page 359 - tis nobler in the mind, to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune ; Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them ? — To die, — to sleep, — No more ; and, by a sleep, to say we end The heart-ache, and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, — 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die ; — to sleep : — To sleep ! perchance to dream : — ay, there's the rub ; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this...
Page 249 - Air, and ye Elements, the eldest birth Of Nature's womb, that in quaternion run Perpetual circle, multiform ; and mix And nourish all things ; let your ceaseless change Vary to our Great Maker still new praise.
Page 367 - 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. Bear with me; My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar, And I must pause till it come back to me.
Page 342 - 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 351 - Suit the action to the word, the word to the action: with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature; for any thing so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first, and now, was, and is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time, his form, and pressure.