An Essay on Elocution: With Elucidatory Passages from Various Authors |
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... mean to make what is in oratory called your point . When you stop , let it be with an elevation of voice , which will leave the sense broken and incomplete , then your hearers , being in expectation of something superlative , will ...
... mean to make what is in oratory called your point . When you stop , let it be with an elevation of voice , which will leave the sense broken and incomplete , then your hearers , being in expectation of something superlative , will ...
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... mean , Drawn to his part ; but other pow'rs as great Fell not , but stand unshaken , from within Or from without , to all temptations arm'd . Hadst thou the same free will and pow'r to stand ? Thou hadst : Whom hast thou then , or what ...
... mean , Drawn to his part ; but other pow'rs as great Fell not , but stand unshaken , from within Or from without , to all temptations arm'd . Hadst thou the same free will and pow'r to stand ? Thou hadst : Whom hast thou then , or what ...
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... mean- ing directly contrary to the words expressed , and is productive of very great effect , if not too frequently used . Irony should be read or spoken in mono- tone . Examples . " They boast they come but to improve our state ...
... mean- ing directly contrary to the words expressed , and is productive of very great effect , if not too frequently used . Irony should be read or spoken in mono- tone . Examples . " They boast they come but to improve our state ...
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... mean by this to censure the custom of preserving in brass or marble the shape and sta- ture of eminent men ; but busts and statues , like their origi nals , are frail and perishable . The soul is formed of finer elements , and its ...
... mean by this to censure the custom of preserving in brass or marble the shape and sta- ture of eminent men ; but busts and statues , like their origi nals , are frail and perishable . The soul is formed of finer elements , and its ...
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... mean , by reading as we speak , that reading should , therefore , be like flippant and common placed conversation , as might erroneously be supposed ; but that reading should be consonant with the subject which we ut- ter . If the ...
... mean , by reading as we speak , that reading should , therefore , be like flippant and common placed conversation , as might erroneously be supposed ; but that reading should be consonant with the subject which we ut- ter . If the ...
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arch of Titus awful beautiful behold beneath blessings breath brow Caracalla cause character Christian Cicero dark dead dead rise death deep delight Demosthenes dread earth ELOCUTION eloquence eternal Father feel feet fire George Somers give glorious glory grace grave Greece hand happiness hath heard heart heaven honour hope human justice king liberty light living Lochiel look Lord LORD CHATHAM ment mercy mind mountain nation nature never night noble o'er object ocean passions patriotism peace pride raised religion Richard Henry Lee rising rocks Roman Roman Forum Rome ruin say unto scene seemed shore side sion soul sound speak spirit sublime sweet tears tempest temples thee THERMÆ thine things thou thought throne tion trembling vale VALE OF TEMPE Vespasian virtue voice wave whole wild wind wings youth
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Page 71 - And Paul said, I would to God, that not only thou, but also all that hear me this day, were both almost and altogether such as I am. except these bonds.
Page 282 - Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since; their shores obey The stranger, slave, or savage; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts: not so thou; Unchangeable save to thy wild waves
Page 63 - Moreover, when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance : for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy face; that thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy Father which is in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.
Page 62 - That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven ; for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye ? do not even the publicans the same ? And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others ? do not even the publicans so ? Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
Page 113 - ... inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending — if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained, we must fight ! I repeat it, sir, we must fight! An appeal to arms and to the God of hosts is all that is left us ! They tell us, sir, that we are weak ; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary.
Page 44 - On earth join all ye creatures to extol Him first, him last, him midst, and without end. Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn, Sure pledge of day, that crown'st the smiling morn With thy bright circlet, praise him in thy sphere, While day arises, that sweet hour of prime.
Page 43 - Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming ; it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations. All they shall speak, and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we ? art thou become like unto us ? Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols : the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee.
Page 131 - If, in the opinion •of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation ; for though this, in one instance, may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed.
Page 34 - Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus: but use all gently: for in the very torrent, tempest, and (as I may say) whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance, that may give it smoothness.
Page 274 - Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve in Beauty's circle proudly gay, The midnight brought the signal-sound of strife, The morn the marshalling in arms, — the day Battle's magnificently stern array...