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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... sometimes be too loud and vociferous . Per- haps nine out of ten , instead of too much confidence , and too violent a manner of speaking , which these teachers scem so much to dread , have , as Dr. Johnson calls it , a frigid equality ...
... sometimes be too loud and vociferous . Per- haps nine out of ten , instead of too much confidence , and too violent a manner of speaking , which these teachers scem so much to dread , have , as Dr. Johnson calls it , a frigid equality ...
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... sometimes depart from this rule , but such only , will know when to do it , with propriety . Occasion may be taken in the course of the scene , to change sides . One speaker , at the end of an impassion- ed speech , may cross over to ...
... sometimes depart from this rule , but such only , will know when to do it , with propriety . Occasion may be taken in the course of the scene , to change sides . One speaker , at the end of an impassion- ed speech , may cross over to ...
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... sometimes hung down , sometimes drawn suddenly back with an air of disdain , sometimes shews by a nod a particular person or object ; gives assent , or denial , by different motions ; threatens by one sort of movement , approves by ...
... sometimes hung down , sometimes drawn suddenly back with an air of disdain , sometimes shews by a nod a particular person or object ; gives assent , or denial , by different motions ; threatens by one sort of movement , approves by ...
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... sometimes by paleness , fear likewise by paleness , and shame by blushing . Every feature contributes its part . The mouth open shews one state of mind , shut , another ; the gnashing of the teeth , another . The forehead smooth ...
... sometimes by paleness , fear likewise by paleness , and shame by blushing . Every feature contributes its part . The mouth open shews one state of mind , shut , another ; the gnashing of the teeth , another . The forehead smooth ...
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... sometimes fills them with tears ; shakes and convulses the whole frame ; giving considerable pain , which occasions holding the sides . Raillery , in sport , without real animosity , puts on the aspect of cheerfulness . The tone of ...
... sometimes fills them with tears ; shakes and convulses the whole frame ; giving considerable pain , which occasions holding the sides . Raillery , in sport , without real animosity , puts on the aspect of cheerfulness . The tone of ...
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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.