The Speaker Or Miscellaneous Pieces Selected from the Best English Writers: Essay on Elocution and Directions for ReadingF. Louis, 1804 - 376 pages |
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Page xvii
... fall it at the end of a sen- tence . Interrogatives , where the speaker seems to expect an answer , should almost always be elevated at - the close , with a peculiar tone , to indicate that a question is asked . Some senten- ces are so ...
... fall it at the end of a sen- tence . Interrogatives , where the speaker seems to expect an answer , should almost always be elevated at - the close , with a peculiar tone , to indicate that a question is asked . Some senten- ces are so ...
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... fall , with easy art ; Melting they fall , and sink into the heart . It may be observed , that on the stage , a sen- tence spoken distinctly , in a low voice , or even in a whisper , is generally as audible at a distance , as one that ...
... fall , with easy art ; Melting they fall , and sink into the heart . It may be observed , that on the stage , a sen- tence spoken distinctly , in a low voice , or even in a whisper , is generally as audible at a distance , as one that ...
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... falling alternately , is unna- tural and absurd , VI . Let the tone of your voice in reading be the same as it is in speaking . Do not affect to change the natural and easy sound with which you speak in conversation , for that formal ...
... falling alternately , is unna- tural and absurd , VI . Let the tone of your voice in reading be the same as it is in speaking . Do not affect to change the natural and easy sound with which you speak in conversation , for that formal ...
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... fall by little and little . A rich man beginning to fall is held up by his friends ; but a poor man being down , is thrust away by his friends . When a rich man is fallen , he has many helpers : he speaketh things not to be spoken , and ...
... fall by little and little . A rich man beginning to fall is held up by his friends ; but a poor man being down , is thrust away by his friends . When a rich man is fallen , he has many helpers : he speaketh things not to be spoken , and ...
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... falls out , That what we have we prize not to the worth , While we enjoy it ; but being lack'd and lost Why then we wreak the value ; then we find g The virtue that possession would not shew us Whilst it Chap . ix . 15 SELECT SENTENCES .
... falls out , That what we have we prize not to the worth , While we enjoy it ; but being lack'd and lost Why then we wreak the value ; then we find g The virtue that possession would not shew us Whilst it Chap . ix . 15 SELECT SENTENCES .
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Page 264 - All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players : They have their exits and their entrances ; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
Page 262 - Or call up him that left half told The Story of Cambuscan bold, Of Camball, and of Algarsife, And who had Canace to wife, That own'd the virtuous ring and glass, And of the wondrous horse of brass, On which the Tartar king did ride...
Page 243 - Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind. The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet ev'n these bones from insult to protect Some frail memorial still...
Page 80 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business.
Page 342 - O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, That I am meek and gentle with these butchers; Thou art the ruins of the noblest man That ever lived in the tide of times. Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood ! Over thy wounds now do I prophesy (Which like dumb mouths do ope their ruby lips, To beg the voice and utterance of my tongue...
Page 257 - Where the great Sun begins his state Robed in flames and amber light, The clouds in thousand liveries dight ; While the ploughman, near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrow'd land, And the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale.
Page 218 - ... tis true, this god did shake ; His coward lips did from their colour fly; And that same eye whose bend doth awe the world Did lose his lustre : I did hear him groan : Ay, and that tongue of his that bade the Romans Mark him, and write his speeches in their books, Alas ! it cried, " Give me some drink, Titinius,
Page 335 - 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.
Page 311 - IT must be so — Plato, thou reason'st well ! — Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought ? 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.
Page 343 - 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...