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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... voice , will greatly enforce the pronunciation ; and , if they keep time , they will be in tune , as it were , to each other ; and to force and energy , add harmony and variety . As this motion of the arm is somewhat complicated , and ...
... voice , will greatly enforce the pronunciation ; and , if they keep time , they will be in tune , as it were , to each other ; and to force and energy , add harmony and variety . As this motion of the arm is somewhat complicated , and ...
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... voice , so ne- cessary to strengthening the organs of sound , because they may 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 ...
... voice , so ne- cessary to strengthening the organs of sound , because they may 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 ...
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... voice is sprightly . With contempt , or disgust , it casts a look asquint , from time to time , at the object ; and quits the cheerful aspect for one mixed between an affected grin and sourness . The upper lip is drawn up with an air of ...
... voice is sprightly . With contempt , or disgust , it casts a look asquint , from time to time , at the object ; and quits the cheerful aspect for one mixed between an affected grin and sourness . The upper lip is drawn up with an air of ...
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... voice rises , from time to time , to very high notes . Delight or Pleasure , as when one is entertained , or ravished with music , painting , oratory , or any such ele- gancy , shews itself by the looks , gestures , and utterance of joy ...
... voice rises , from time to time , to very high notes . Delight or Pleasure , as when one is entertained , or ravished with music , painting , oratory , or any such ele- gancy , shews itself by the looks , gestures , and utterance of joy ...
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... voice unvarying , and his sentences broken , expressing half , and keeping in half of what arises in his mind . Vexation , occasioned by some real or imaginary mis- fortune , agitates the whole frame ; and besides expres sing itself ...
... voice unvarying , and his sentences broken , expressing half , and keeping in half of what arises in his mind . Vexation , occasioned by some real or imaginary mis- fortune , agitates the whole frame ; and besides expres sing itself ...
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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.