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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... appear in the countenance , and operate on the body ; but this system , however useful to people of riper years , is too delicate and com- plicated to be taught in schools . Indeed the exact adap tation of the action to the word , and ...
... appear in the countenance , and operate on the body ; but this system , however useful to people of riper years , is too delicate and com- plicated to be taught in schools . Indeed the exact adap tation of the action to the word , and ...
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... appears in a wondrously striking manner , in the works ofthe painter and statuary ; who have the delicate art of making the flat canvas and rocky marble utter every passion of the human mind , and touch the soul of the spectator , as if ...
... appears in a wondrously striking manner , in the works ofthe painter and statuary ; who have the delicate art of making the flat canvas and rocky marble utter every passion of the human mind , and touch the soul of the spectator , as if ...
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... appearing to a disadvantage , before one's fellow creatures ; turns away the face from the beholders ; covers it with blushes ; hangs the head ; casts down the eyes ; draws down the eyebrows ; either strikes the person dumb , or , if he ...
... appearing to a disadvantage , before one's fellow creatures ; turns away the face from the beholders ; covers it with blushes ; hangs the head ; casts down the eyes ; draws down the eyebrows ; either strikes the person dumb , or , if he ...
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... appear very prominent ; sometimes raises them to the skies ; but oftener , and more expressively , fixes them on the ... appears , they immedi ately let it drop , unconscious ; and the whole body fixes in the contracted , stooping ...
... appear very prominent ; sometimes raises them to the skies ; but oftener , and more expressively , fixes them on the ... appears , they immedi ately let it drop , unconscious ; and the whole body fixes in the contracted , stooping ...
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... appears by yawning , dozing , snoring , the head dangling sometimes to one side , sometimes to the other , the arms and legs stretched out , and every sinew of the body unstrung , the eyes heavy or closed ; the words , if any , crawl ...
... appears by yawning , dozing , snoring , the head dangling sometimes to one side , sometimes to the other , the arms and legs stretched out , and every sinew of the body unstrung , the eyes heavy or closed ; the words , if any , crawl ...
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