Lessons in Elocution, Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse: For the Improvement of Youth in Reading and SpeakingHill and Moore, 1820 - 384 páginas |
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... observe , that boys should be classed in this , as in every other kind of instruction , ac- cording to their abilities ; that a class should not consist of more than ten ; that about eight or ten lines of some speech should be read ...
... observe , that boys should be classed in this , as in every other kind of instruction , ac- cording to their abilities ; that a class should not consist of more than ten ; that about eight or ten lines of some speech should be read ...
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... observing this rule , beware of running into the extreme of vociferation . We find this fault chiefly a- mong those , who , in contempt and despite of all rule and propriety , are determined to command the attention of the vulgar ...
... observing this rule , beware of running into the extreme of vociferation . We find this fault chiefly a- mong those , who , in contempt and despite of all rule and propriety , are determined to command the attention of the vulgar ...
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... observing the height of voice which is proper to each , and endeavoring to change them as nature di- rects . In the same composition there may be frequent occa- sions to alter the height of the voice , in passing rom one part to another ...
... observing the height of voice which is proper to each , and endeavoring to change them as nature di- rects . In the same composition there may be frequent occa- sions to alter the height of the voice , in passing rom one part to another ...
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... on marriage , and one who has often tried his for- tune in that way , without success . I cannot , however , dismiss this letter , without observing , that the true story on which it is built , does honor to the SECT . I. ] 71 IN READING .
... on marriage , and one who has often tried his for- tune in that way , without success . I cannot , however , dismiss this letter , without observing , that the true story on which it is built , does honor to the SECT . I. ] 71 IN READING .
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... observation and experience ; but the substance of it is every where and eternally the same . Good manners are , to particular societies , what good morals are to society in general - their cement and their security . And as laws are ...
... observation and experience ; but the substance of it is every where and eternally the same . Good manners are , to particular societies , what good morals are to society in general - their cement and their security . And as laws are ...
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Página 366 - Romans, countrymen, and lovers ! hear me for my cause, and be silent, that you may hear : believe me for mine honour, and have respect to mine honour, that you may believe : censure me in your wisdom, and awake your senses, that you may the better judge. If there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of Caesar's, to him I say that Brutus' love to Caesar was no less than his.
Página 350 - For I can raise no money by vile means: By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash By any indirection...
Página 236 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour: The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Página 362 - Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.
Página 261 - The praise of Bacchus then the sweet musician sung : Of Bacchus ever fair and ever young : The jolly god in triumph comes ! Sound the trumpets, beat the drums ! Flush'd with a purple grace He shows his honest face : Now give the hautboys breath; he comes, he comes! Bacchus, ever fair and young, Drinking joys did first ordain ; Bacchus...
Página 359 - tis nobler in the mind, to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune ; Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them ? — To die, — to sleep, — No more ; and, by a sleep, to say we end The heart-ache, and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, — 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die ; — to sleep : — To sleep ! perchance to dream : — ay, there's the rub ; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this...
Página 249 - Air, and ye Elements, the eldest birth 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.
Página 367 - I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke, But here I am to speak what I do know. You all did love him once, not without cause: What cause withholds you then to mourn for him? O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason. Bear with me; My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar, And I must pause till it come back to me.
Página 342 - Why, well : Never so truly happy, my good Cromwell. I know myself now ; and I feel within me A peace above all earthly dignities, A still and quiet conscience.
Página 351 - Suit the action to the word, the word to the action: with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature; for any thing so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first, and now, was, and is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time, his form, and pressure.