The Art of Elocution: From the Simple Articulation of the Elemental Sounds of Language, Up to the Highest Tone of Expression in Speech, Attainable by the Human Voice |
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To him who desires to make a figure in the Pulpit , in the Senate , or at the Bar , a
good delivery , a nervous and elegant style of Elocution , are as essential , almost
, as force of argument and grace of language . How many a good story is ...
To him who desires to make a figure in the Pulpit , in the Senate , or at the Bar , a
good delivery , a nervous and elegant style of Elocution , are as essential , almost
, as force of argument and grace of language . How many a good story is ...
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Such is the triumph of the perfect ORATOR ; -a triumph due as much to the power
and grace of delivery , as to the force of argument or the eloquence of diction .
And how is this power and grace of delivery to be acquired ? —for acquired it ...
Such is the triumph of the perfect ORATOR ; -a triumph due as much to the power
and grace of delivery , as to the force of argument or the eloquence of diction .
And how is this power and grace of delivery to be acquired ? —for acquired it ...
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356 , * ) “ that in reading the Bible , for example , or anything which is not
intended to appear as his own composition , it is desirable that he should deliver
it as if he were reporting another's sentiments , which were both fully understood
and felt ...
356 , * ) “ that in reading the Bible , for example , or anything which is not
intended to appear as his own composition , it is desirable that he should deliver
it as if he were reporting another's sentiments , which were both fully understood
and felt ...
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you are delivering , it is quite possible that that you may , not withstanding ,
deliver it with an utter absence of understanding and feeling . ” And why ? Clearly
for the want of a system , which by rules and principles of art shall render such a ...
you are delivering , it is quite possible that that you may , not withstanding ,
deliver it with an utter absence of understanding and feeling . ” And why ? Clearly
for the want of a system , which by rules and principles of art shall render such a ...
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... he would betray more or less his studied and artificial delivery ; and would , in
the same degree , manifest an offensive affectation . " Now , the very object of a
system of Elocution , such as the right reverend Doctor so strenuously condemns
...
... he would betray more or less his studied and artificial delivery ; and would , in
the same degree , manifest an offensive affectation . " Now , the very object of a
system of Elocution , such as the right reverend Doctor so strenuously condemns
...
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Página 324 - I cannot tell what you and other men Think of this life, but, for my single self, I had as lief not be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself.
Página 300 - He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress...
Página 325 - Why should that name be sounded more than yours ? Write them together, yours is as fair a name; Sound them, it doth become the mouth as well; Weigh them, it is as heavy; conjure with 'em, "Brutus" will start a spirit as soon as "Caesar.
Página 291 - mong Graemes of the Netherby clan ; Forsters, Fenwicks, and Musgraves, they rode and they ran : There was racing and chasing on Cannobie Lee, But the lost bride of Netherby ne'er did they see. So daring in love, and so dauntless in war, Have ye e'er heard of gallant like young Lochinvar?
Página 339 - O, now you weep ; and, I perceive, you feel The dint of pity : these are gracious drops ; Kind souls ! What, weep you, when you but behold Our Caesar's vesture wounded ? Look you here. Here is himself, marr'd, as you see.
Página 326 - Signior Antonio, many a time and oft In the Rialto you have rated me About my monies, and my usances : Still have I borne it with a patient shrug ; For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe...
Página 175 - That which is now a horse, even with a thought The rack dislimns, and makes it indistinct, As water is in water.
Página 335 - O Cassius, you are yoked with a lamb That carries anger, as the flint bears fire; Who, much enforced, shows a hasty spark, And straight is cold again.
Página 353 - With a bare bodkin ? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of ? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all...
Página 352 - 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...
Información bibliográfica
| Título | The Art of Elocution: From the Simple Articulation of the Elemental Sounds of Language, Up to the Highest Tone of Expression in Speech, Attainable by the Human Voice |
| Autor | George Vandenhoff |
| Edición | 3 |
| Editor | Sampson, Low, 1846 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Harvard |
| Digitalizado | 14 Nov. 2007 |
| Largo | 383 páginas |
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