King's College Lectures on Elocution: Or, The Physiology and Culture of Voice and Speech, and the Expression of the Emotions by Language, Countenance, and Gesture. To which is Added a Special Lecture on the Causes and Cure of Impediments of Speech ...Trübner, 1881 - 487 páginas |
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... light to our eyes or guide to our feet ; we shall simply see our own fancies reflected everywhere . There is no learning - no advance . Much may be done by an intelligent reader to enforce the meaning of what he reads by variation of ...
... light to our eyes or guide to our feet ; we shall simply see our own fancies reflected everywhere . There is no learning - no advance . Much may be done by an intelligent reader to enforce the meaning of what he reads by variation of ...
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... light and meaning , the drawing out of all our best faculties , an important means in early - nay , in all stages of life , as well as in all classes of society , for refining and elevating the mind , for cultivating the sympathies ...
... light and meaning , the drawing out of all our best faculties , an important means in early - nay , in all stages of life , as well as in all classes of society , for refining and elevating the mind , for cultivating the sympathies ...
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... light of a high and pure pleasure , which should be cultivated by us for the sake of the gratification which it yields to others , and as a great addition to our social enjoyments . But I cannot conclude without adverting to it under a ...
... light of a high and pure pleasure , which should be cultivated by us for the sake of the gratification which it yields to others , and as a great addition to our social enjoyments . But I cannot conclude without adverting to it under a ...
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... light , an important means of refining and elevating the mind , of cultivating the sympathies , and of improving those habits of perception and adaptation which are so valuable to all . However , there is yet another ground I may take ...
... light , an important means of refining and elevating the mind , of cultivating the sympathies , and of improving those habits of perception and adaptation which are so valuable to all . However , there is yet another ground I may take ...
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... light , and on a much lower ground - I mean simply as an intellectual recreation . And let me ask , save music and song , what social pleasure is there greater than that of reading aloud , as they should be read , the great masters of ...
... light , and on a much lower ground - I mean simply as an intellectual recreation . And let me ask , save music and song , what social pleasure is there greater than that of reading aloud , as they should be read , the great masters of ...
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Página 205 - There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone ; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.
Página 185 - All this? ay, more: Fret, till your proud heart break ; Go, show your slaves how choleric you are, And make your bondmen tremble.
Página 178 - All places that the eye of heaven visits, Are to a wise man ports and happy havens : Teach thy necessity to reason thus ; There is no virtue like necessity.
Página 184 - There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats ; For I am armed so strong in honesty That they pass by me as the idle wind, Which I respect not.
Página 203 - Julius bleed for justice' sake ? What villain touch'd his body, that did stab, And not for justice ? What, shall one of us, That struck the foremost man of all this world But for supporting robbers, shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes, And sell the mighty space of our large honours For so much trash as may be grasped thus ? — I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, Than such a Roman.
Página 258 - 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.
Página 177 - Seems, madam ! nay, it is ; I know not 'seems.' 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black...
Página 167 - I have of late, — but wherefore I know not, — lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises ; and, indeed, it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fare, — why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
Página 177 - It must be by his death: and, for my part, I know no personal cause to spurn at him, But for the general. He would be crown'd: How that might change his nature, there's the question: It is the bright day that brings forth the adder; And that craves wary walking.
Página 211 - Have we anything new to offer upon the subject? Nothing. We have held the subject up in every light of which it is capable ; but it has been all in vain.