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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... uttered by them , and from the little effect pro- duced by their labours . Of the learning neceffary for furnishing matter , and of the art of arranging it properly ; of invention , compofition , and fyle , various writers among the ...
... uttered by them , and from the little effect pro- duced by their labours . Of the learning neceffary for furnishing matter , and of the art of arranging it properly ; of invention , compofition , and fyle , various writers among the ...
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... uttered ; by which means the hearers have time to ruminate upon it , before the matter , which follows , can put it out of their thoughts . Of this , inftances will occur in the following lessons . Young readers are apt to get into a ...
... uttered ; by which means the hearers have time to ruminate upon it , before the matter , which follows , can put it out of their thoughts . Of this , inftances will occur in the following lessons . Young readers are apt to get into a ...
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... utter , in fo cold and un - animated a man- ner . I happened lately to hear the tenth chapter of Joshua read in a church in the country . It contains the history of the miraculous conqueft of the five kings , who arose against the ...
... utter , in fo cold and un - animated a man- ner . I happened lately to hear the tenth chapter of Joshua read in a church in the country . It contains the history of the miraculous conqueft of the five kings , who arose against the ...
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... utter every paffage with all the force he can ; to fet off , the more ftrongly , the more emphatical parts ; as the painters , by means of fhades properly placed , make the figures ftand off bolder . For if the speaker has uttered a ...
... utter every paffage with all the force he can ; to fet off , the more ftrongly , the more emphatical parts ; as the painters , by means of fhades properly placed , make the figures ftand off bolder . For if the speaker has uttered a ...
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... utter every paffion of the human mind , and touch the foul of the fpectator , as if the picture , or sta- tue , poke the pathetic language of Shakespear . It is no wonder , then , that mafterly action joined with powerful elo- cution ...
... utter every paffion of the human mind , and touch the foul of the fpectator , as if the picture , or sta- tue , poke the pathetic language of Shakespear . It is no wonder , then , that mafterly action joined with powerful elo- cution ...
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
Popular passages
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...