Chironomia; or, A treatise on rhetorical delivery |
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... composition , of all that is graceful and persuasive , and even of all the energetic and irresistible powers of delivery . The fair hope and honourable ambition of assisting in the discovery and developement of those principles which ...
... composition , of all that is graceful and persuasive , and even of all the energetic and irresistible powers of delivery . The fair hope and honourable ambition of assisting in the discovery and developement of those principles which ...
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... composition . The failure of Demosthenes himself , before he cultivated this art with sufficient care , and his extraordinary success afterwards , induced him to overvalue delivery , by giving it the preference to every other requisite ...
... composition . The failure of Demosthenes himself , before he cultivated this art with sufficient care , and his extraordinary success afterwards , induced him to overvalue delivery , by giving it the preference to every other requisite ...
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... compositions of our speakers may be , and many will be found to vie with the most perfect of the ancients , their delivery , it is to be feared , has advanced but little beyond that state in which it stood so long ago as Mr. Addison's ...
... compositions of our speakers may be , and many will be found to vie with the most perfect of the ancients , their delivery , it is to be feared , has advanced but little beyond that state in which it stood so long ago as Mr. Addison's ...
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... composition was learned . “ When he turned himself to the left , he spoke a few words accompanied by a moderate gesture of the hand , then bending " to the right , he acted the same part over again ; then back again to the left , and ...
... composition was learned . “ When he turned himself to the left , he spoke a few words accompanied by a moderate gesture of the hand , then bending " to the right , he acted the same part over again ; then back again to the left , and ...
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... composition : and that at the bar , in the pulpit , and in the senate , as many impressive and graceful speakers will be found in proportion , as in the theatres . If the authority of the ancient illustrious orators have any weight , we ...
... composition : and that at the bar , in the pulpit , and in the senate , as many impressive and graceful speakers will be found in proportion , as in the theatres . If the authority of the ancient illustrious orators have any weight , we ...
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action actor affectation altogether ancient animi appears atque autem autres body celebrated character Cicero corporis countenance Cresol Cresollius deinde delivered delivery Demosthenes dicendi dicere digitis discourse doit elevated Elocutio eloquence enim etiam expression eyes feelings fingers geste grace hæc hand illa l'expression labour language magis manner manum manus marked mind modo modum motions motus mouvemens nature neque nihil notation object observed omnia omnis orator oratory palæstra pantomime passage passions Pathognomy perfection Plutarch Plutus pollice position primum principal gesture pronunciatio public speaker pulpit Pylades qu'il quæ quædam quam quid quidem Quint Quintilian quod quoque reading rhetorical sæpe sentiments significant gestures speaking suited sunt talents tamen tantum tion tones variety vero vocem vocis voice vultus whilst words γὰρ δὲ καὶ τὴν τῆς τὸ τὸν τῶν
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Page 483 - But I will punish home: No, I will weep no more. In such a night To shut me out! Pour on; I will endure. In such a night as this! O Regan, Goneril! Your old kind father, whose frank heart gave all O, that way madness lies; let me shun that; No more of that.
Page 281 - Pity it is, that the momentary beauties flowing from an harmonious elocution, cannot like those of poetry be their own record! That the animated graces of the player can live no longer than the instant breath and motion that presents them; or at best can but faintly glimmer through the memory, or imperfect attestation of a few surviving spectators.
Page 80 - Why, what should be the fear ? I do not set my life at a pin's fee ; And for my soul, what can it do to that, Being a thing immortal as itself ? It waves me forth again : I'll follow it.
Page 116 - The light of the body is the eye : therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when thine eye is evil, thy body also is full of darkness. 35 Take heed therefore, that the light which is in thee be not darkness.
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Page 182 - Recherches d'Antiquite, gives us a curious story of the celebrated physiognomist Campanella. This man, it seems, had not only made very accurate observations on human faces, but was very expert in mimicking such as were any way remarkable. When he had a mind to penetrate into the inclinations...
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Page 53 - Oh, against all rule, my Lord, — most ungrammatically! betwixt the substantive and the adjective, which should agree together in number, case, and gender, he made a breach thus, — stopping, as if the point wanted settling; — and...
Page 38 - In just articulation the words are not to be hurried over, nor precipitated syllable over syllable: nor, as it were, melted together into a mass of confusion : they should be neither abridged, nor prolonged, nor swallowed, nor forced, and, (if I may so express it,) shot from the mouth; they should not be trailed, nor drawled...
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