The Art of Speaking: Containing, I. An Essay; in which are Given Rules for Expressing Properly the Principal Passions and Humours, ... II. Lessons Taken from the Ancients and Moderns ...T. Longman, T. Field, C. Dilly, W. Goldsmith, D. Ogilvy and J. Speare, 1792 - 373 pages |
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... better be published . Whoever imagines the English tongue unfit for oratory , has not a just notion of it . That , by reason of the difpro- portion between its vowels and confonants , it is not quite fo tractable as the Italian , and ...
... better be published . Whoever imagines the English tongue unfit for oratory , has not a just notion of it . That , by reason of the difpro- portion between its vowels and confonants , it is not quite fo tractable as the Italian , and ...
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... better spoken , than by a gentleman , who yet had fo little difcernment in mufic , that , he has often told me , the grinding of knives enter- tained him as much as Handel's organ . B 4 As Yet Quintilian would have his orator by all ...
... better spoken , than by a gentleman , who yet had fo little difcernment in mufic , that , he has often told me , the grinding of knives enter- tained him as much as Handel's organ . B 4 As Yet Quintilian would have his orator by all ...
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... better grace for his having learned to dance in the most elegant manner . The orator may not have actual occafion to express anger , jealoufy , malice , and fome few others of the more violent paffions , for which I have here given ...
... better grace for his having learned to dance in the most elegant manner . The orator may not have actual occafion to express anger , jealoufy , malice , and fome few others of the more violent paffions , for which I have here given ...
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... better attitude , than those of an Egyptian mummy , than diftorting himself into all the viola- tions of decorum , which affectation produces . Art , jeen through , is execrable . Modefy ought ever to be confpicuous in the behaviour of ...
... better attitude , than those of an Egyptian mummy , than diftorting himself into all the viola- tions of decorum , which affectation produces . Art , jeen through , is execrable . Modefy ought ever to be confpicuous in the behaviour of ...
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... better than their neighbours . But what is the plain English of this lamentable outcry ? Why , truly , that they find people loth to go to the places of public inftruction to be difgufted or lulled to fleep . And , that , when they have ...
... better than their neighbours . But what is the plain English of this lamentable outcry ? Why , truly , that they find people loth to go to the places of public inftruction to be difgufted or lulled to fleep . And , that , when they have ...
Common terms and phrases
Accus AFFECT againſt APOL APPREHENS arms becauſe body Caius Verres confequence confiderable CONT CONTEMPT dead death defign defire Diodotus doft Doub enemy ENQU expreffed eyes faid fame father fear fecure feem feen fenfe fentence feven fhall fhew fhould fleep fome fometimes foon foul fpeaker fpeaking fpeech ftate ftill fubjects fuch fuffer fufficient fuperior fuppofe fure Ghoft Ghoſt Greece GRIEF hand heaven himſelf honour hope HORROR Humph Iago INTR INTREAT itſelf Jugurtha king leaſt lefs loft Longh look manner matter moft moſt muft muſt myſelf NARRA Nick Bottom Numidia occafion orator ourſelves paffage paffions perfon Peter Quince PITY pleafing pleaſe pleaſure Pray prefent QUEST Quintilian raiſe reafon REMON rife Roman ſay Scythians ſhall Shyl Shylock ſpeak ſpoken ſtate thee thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe thou thought TION uſed VENERA VEXAT voice whofe whoſe wife words
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Page 115 - The bell strikes One. We take no note of time But from its loss : to give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours. Where are they? With the years beyond the flood.
Page 92 - 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 100 - To sigh for ribands if thou art so silly, Mark how they grace Lord Umbra or Sir Billy. Is yellow dirt the passion of thy life ? Look but on Gripus or on Gripus
Page 44 - Our words flow from us in a smooth continued stream, without those strainings of the voice, motions of the body, and majesty of the hand, which are so much celebrated in the orators of Greece and Rome. We can talk of life and death in cold blood, and keep our temper in a...
Page 93 - His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and, wave your tops, ye Pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave. Fountains, and ye that warble, as ye flow, Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise.
Page 240 - With eyes darting fury, and a countenance distorted with cruelty, he orders the helpless victim of his rage to be stripped, and rods to be brought ; accusing him, but without the least shadow of evidence, or even of suspicion, of having come to Sicily as a spy.
Page 210 - I'll look up; My fault is past. But, O, what form of prayer Can serve my turn? 'Forgive me my foul murder?
Page 276 - Awaked, should blow them into sevenfold rage And plunge us in the flames? or from above Should intermitted vengeance arm again His red right hand to plague us?
Page 93 - 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 145 - O thou that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion, like the god Of this new world, at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads, to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere...