... endeavouring to communicate new fimple ideas by definitions ; or .that of attempting to paint founds. ALL writers feem to be under the influence of one -common delufion, that by the help of words alone, they can communicate all that paffes in their... A Course of Lectures on Elocution - Page ixby Thomas Sheridan - 1803 - 185 pagesFull view - About this book
| Thomas Sheridan - Elocution - 1762 - 298 pages
...they can communicate all that paflbs in their rninds. They forget that the paflions and the fancy kave a language of their own, utterly independent of words,...manifefted and communicated. Now if this language be wholly negle&ed by us; if we have taken no care to regulate its marks, or fettle the ufe of them with any... | |
| John Thelwall - Elocution - 1810 - 230 pages
...help of words, alone, we can " communicate all that passes in the mind of Man — c 2 " The Passions and the Fancy have a language of " their own, utterly...independent of words, by which " only their exertions can be manifested and commu" nicated." Led. on Eloc. p. xii. Svo. edit. This language, it is my intention... | |
| James Mulvihill - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 300 pages
...in different ways whether we realize it or not. When, moreover, Sheridan asserts that "the passions and the fancy have a language of their own, utterly...independent of words, by which only their exertions can be manifested and communicated" (LE x), he refers not just to nonverbal elements in speaking, such as... | |
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