The New Speaker. With an Essay on ElocutionSaunders, Otley, and Company, 1861 - 395 páginas |
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... person , as dangerous from the assumption that by the use of it an undue influence would be exer- cised over people's minds ; for , even as Aristotle determined rhetoric to be necessary and useful , just as dangerous weapons are of ...
... person , as dangerous from the assumption that by the use of it an undue influence would be exer- cised over people's minds ; for , even as Aristotle determined rhetoric to be necessary and useful , just as dangerous weapons are of ...
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... persons living in our age . The extraordinary labours of Demosthenes , who built himself a sub- terraneous cave where he might strive , in solitude , to correct a defective enunciation - adding to his seclusion the shaving of half his ...
... persons living in our age . The extraordinary labours of Demosthenes , who built himself a sub- terraneous cave where he might strive , in solitude , to correct a defective enunciation - adding to his seclusion the shaving of half his ...
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... person can so far take in the full import of the words by a rapid glance of the eye , as to be enabled to give to them that execution which would answer his conceptions , or make use of the same terms he would give to them in discourse ...
... person can so far take in the full import of the words by a rapid glance of the eye , as to be enabled to give to them that execution which would answer his conceptions , or make use of the same terms he would give to them in discourse ...
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... Persons who keep their attention fixed upon each word , or even upon each line as they proceed , run the risk of either omitting many pauses which the sense requires , or of misplacing them . A good reader , on the contrary , is enabled ...
... Persons who keep their attention fixed upon each word , or even upon each line as they proceed , run the risk of either omitting many pauses which the sense requires , or of misplacing them . A good reader , on the contrary , is enabled ...
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... person is frequently obliged to pronounce some words at the close of a sentence in a tone scarcely audible . Such a contrast to the rest of his words must be very perceptible to his hearers , and occasion in them great impatience and ...
... person is frequently obliged to pronounce some words at the close of a sentence in a tone scarcely audible . Such a contrast to the rest of his words must be very perceptible to his hearers , and occasion in them great impatience and ...
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Página 250 - The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece! Where burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace, Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set.
Página 179 - I am the daughter of Earth and Water, And the nursling of the Sky ; I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores ; I change, but I cannot die. For after the rain when with never a stain The pavilion of Heaven is bare, And the winds and sunbeams with their convex gleams Build up the blue dome of air...
Página 229 - Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare; Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss. Though winning near the goal — yet do not grieve: She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss; For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair! Ah, happy, happy boughs! that cannot shed Your leaves, nor ever bid the Spring adieu; And happy melodist, unwearied, For ever piping songs for ever new; More happy love!
Página 358 - Here comes his body, mourned by Mark Antony : who, though he had no hand in his death, shall receive the benefit of his dying, a place in the commonwealth ; as which of you shall not ? With this I depart ; that, as I slew my best lover for the good of Rome, I have the same dagger for myself, when it shall please my country to need my death.
Página 357 - 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 237 - Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean, roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain ; Man marks the earth with ruin — his control Stops with the shore ; upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed...
Página 135 - But the Consul's brow was sad, And the Consul's speech was low, And darkly looked he at the wall, And darkly at the foe. " Their van will be upon us Before the bridge goes down; And if they once may win the bridge. What hope to save the town...
Página 238 - Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they { Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since ; their shores obey The stranger, slave, or savage ; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts : — not so thou, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play — Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow — Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now.
Página 216 - Come, pensive Nun, devout and pure, ' Sober, steadfast, and demure, All in a robe of darkest grain, Flowing with majestic train, And sable stole of cypress lawn Over thy decent shoulders drawn. Come; but keep thy wonted state, With even step, and musing gait, And looks commercing with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes...
Página 252 - Must we but weep o'er days more blest ? Must we but blush ? — Our fathers bled. Earth ! render back from out thy breast A remnant of our Spartan dead ! Of the three hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylae...