A Practical Manual of Elocution: Embracing Voice and Gesture : Designed for Schools, Academies and Colleges, as Well as for Private Learners |
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... natural , and habitual , or he will always be blun- dering . No one but he who has prac- tised on these sounds , and used such works as this , can tell the great advan- tages to be derived from them . Experi- ence has fully shown that ...
... natural , and habitual , or he will always be blun- dering . No one but he who has prac- tised on these sounds , and used such works as this , can tell the great advan- tages to be derived from them . Experi- ence has fully shown that ...
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... natural language of any passion tends to excite that passion , as directly as the exist- ence of the passion prompts to its natural expression ; Thirdly , to assist him in overcoming bad habits , whether of extravagance or of feebleness ...
... natural language of any passion tends to excite that passion , as directly as the exist- ence of the passion prompts to its natural expression ; Thirdly , to assist him in overcoming bad habits , whether of extravagance or of feebleness ...
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... natural sciences are taught in all our schools , that those who study them may be able to classify and give names to the various objects of nature . Even the young lady studies Botany and the Geography of the heavens , that she may be ...
... natural sciences are taught in all our schools , that those who study them may be able to classify and give names to the various objects of nature . Even the young lady studies Botany and the Geography of the heavens , that she may be ...
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... natural peculiarities . Their entire object is to refine and perfect nature ; not to pervert it . The greatest orators , even the most popular players , are those who have made art subservient to the development of their own native ...
... natural peculiarities . Their entire object is to refine and perfect nature ; not to pervert it . The greatest orators , even the most popular players , are those who have made art subservient to the development of their own native ...
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... natural powers , rather than by substituting , or at- tempting to substitute , others for them . The taste may indeed be improved in various ways , — by reading works and attending lectures on Elocution , as also by studying living ...
... natural powers , rather than by substituting , or at- tempting to substitute , others for them . The taste may indeed be improved in various ways , — by reading works and attending lectures on Elocution , as also by studying living ...
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Page 144 - And let those that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them : for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the mean time, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered: that's villainous; and . shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.
Page 174 - Caesar carelessly but nod on him. He had a fever when he was in Spain ; And, when the fit was on him, I did mark How he did shake...
Page 131 - The gay will laugh When thou art gone, the solemn brood of care Plod on, and each one, as before, will chase His favorite phantom ; yet all these shall leave Their mirth and their employments, and shall come And make their bed with thee.
Page 110 - Perhaps thou gavest me, though unfelt, a kiss ; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss ; Ah, that maternal smile, it answers yes ! I heard the bell tolled on thy burial day, I saw the hearse that bore thee slow away, And, turning from my nursery window, drew A long, long sigh, and wept a last adieu ! But was it such ? It was.
Page 129 - HAIL, holy Light, offspring of Heaven first-born! Or of the Eternal coeternal beam May I express thee unblamed? since God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity — dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate!
Page 165 - Julius bleed for justice' sake ? What villain touch'd his body, that did stab, And not for justice ? What, shall one of us, That struck the foremost man of all this world But for supporting robbers, shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes, And sell the mighty space of our large honours For so much trash as may be grasped thus ? — I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, Than such a Roman.
Page 112 - You say you are a better soldier: Let it appear so; make your vaunting true, And it shall please me well. For mine own part, I shall be glad to learn of noble men. Cas. You wrong me every way, you wrong me, Brutus; I said, an elder soldier, not a better: Did I say better?
Page 210 - Muse, that on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That shepherd, who first taught the chosen seed, In the beginning how the Heavens and Earth Rose out of Chaos...
Page 150 - This fellow's of exceeding honesty, And knows all qualities, with a learned spirit, Of human dealings. If I do prove her haggard, Though that her jesses were my dear heart-strings, I 'ld whistle her off and let her down the wind, To prey at fortune.
Page 174 - I cannot tell what you and other men Think of this life, but, for my single self, I had as lief not be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself.