Lessons in Elocution: Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse, for the Improvement of Youth in Reading and Speaking |
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... eyes , and sometimes fills them with tears The front wrinkled into frowns , and the eyebrows overhanging the eyes , like clouds , fraught with tempest , shew a mind agitated with fury . Above all , the eye shews the very spirit in a ...
... eyes , and sometimes fills them with tears The front wrinkled into frowns , and the eyebrows overhanging the eyes , like clouds , fraught with tempest , shew a mind agitated with fury . Above all , the eye shews the very spirit in a ...
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... eyes passing with an easy motion from object to object , but not dwelling long upon a ny one . Cheerfulness , adds a smile , opening the mouth a little more . Mirth or laug ' ter , opens the mouth still more towards the ears ; crisps ...
... eyes passing with an easy motion from object to object , but not dwelling long upon a ny one . Cheerfulness , adds a smile , opening the mouth a little more . Mirth or laug ' ter , opens the mouth still more towards the ears ; crisps ...
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... eyes are o pened wide ; perhaps filled with tears ; often raised to heaven . especially by devout persons . The countenance is smiling not composedly , but with features aggravated . The voice rises , from time to time , to very high ...
... eyes are o pened wide ; perhaps filled with tears ; often raised to heaven . especially by devout persons . The countenance is smiling not composedly , but with features aggravated . The voice rises , from time to time , to very high ...
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... eyes , from time to time , to heaven ; hurry- ing to and fro , running distracted , or fainting away , some- times without recovery . Sometimes violent grief produces a torpid silence , resembling total apathy . Melancholy , or fixed ...
... eyes , from time to time , to heaven ; hurry- ing to and fro , running distracted , or fainting away , some- times without recovery . Sometimes violent grief produces a torpid silence , resembling total apathy . Melancholy , or fixed ...
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... eyes . The right hand beats the breast . The teeth gnash with anguish . The whole body is strained and violently agitated . If this strong remorse is succeeded by the more gracious disposi- tion of penitence , or contrition ; then the eyes ...
... eyes . The right hand beats the breast . The teeth gnash with anguish . The whole body is strained and violently agitated . If this strong remorse is succeeded by the more gracious disposi- tion of penitence , or contrition ; then the eyes ...
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