Lessons in Elocution: Or, A Selection of Pieces, in Prose and Verse, for the Improvement of Youth in Reading and Speaking ...Hori Brown, 1820 - 407 Seiten |
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... hand neither horizontal nor virtical , but exactly between both . The position of the arm , perhaps will be best des- cribed , by supposing an oblong hollow square formed by the measure of four arms as in plate I , where the arm in its ...
... hand neither horizontal nor virtical , but exactly between both . The position of the arm , perhaps will be best des- cribed , by supposing an oblong hollow square formed by the measure of four arms as in plate I , where the arm in its ...
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... hand , as if lifeless , must drop down to the side , the very moment the last accented word is pronounced ; and the body , without altering the place of the feet , poise itself on the left leg , while the left hand raises itself , into ...
... hand , as if lifeless , must drop down to the side , the very moment the last accented word is pronounced ; and the body , without altering the place of the feet , poise itself on the left leg , while the left hand raises itself , into ...
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... hand and arm properly , he may be taught to move it . In this motion he must be careful to keep the arm fromthe body . He must neither draw the elbow backwards , nor suffer it to approach to the side ; but , while the hand and lower ...
... hand and arm properly , he may be taught to move it . In this motion he must be careful to keep the arm fromthe body . He must neither draw the elbow backwards , nor suffer it to approach to the side ; but , while the hand and lower ...
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... hand open , and the thumb at some distance from the fingers ; and particular attention must be paid , to keeping the hand in an ex- act line with the lower part of the arm , so as not to bend at the wrist , either when it is held out ...
... hand open , and the thumb at some distance from the fingers ; and particular attention must be paid , to keeping the hand in an ex- act line with the lower part of the arm , so as not to bend at the wrist , either when it is held out ...
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... hand . That is , supposing the stage or platform where they stand to be quadrangle , each speaker should , respectively , face the corner of it next to the audience ; and use that hand , and rest upon that leg , which is next to the ...
... hand . That is , supposing the stage or platform where they stand to be quadrangle , each speaker should , respectively , face the corner of it next to the audience ; and use that hand , and rest upon that leg , which is next to the ...
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admire appear arms beauty behold body breast breath Brutus Cesar charms cheerful Cicero clouds countenance creatures Curiatii daugh death delight Dendermond Dovedale e'en earth enemy eternal express extinc eyes fair fame father fortune friends give glory grace grief hand happy hath head heart heaven honor hope hour human imagination Jugurtha Keswick kind king Lady G live look Lord lyre mankind manner mind morning mouth muse nature never night Numidia o'er object pain passion Patricians person pleasure Pompey poor praetor praise privy counsellor Rhadamanthus rise Roman Rome round sapience says sense Sicily side smiles soul sound speak speaker spirit sweet sweet oblivion tears tell thee thing thou thought tion tone Trim truth Twas uncle Toby virtue voice whole wise words youth
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Seite 231 - Yet he was kind, or, if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault...
Seite 351 - Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage; Then lend the eye a terrible aspect; Let it pry through the portage of the head Like the brass cannon: let the brow o'erwhelm it As fearfully as doth a galled rock O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean. Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide; Hold hard the breath, and bend up every spirit To his full height.
Seite 224 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour: The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Seite 347 - She lov'd me for the dangers I had pass'd, And I lov'd her that she did pity them.
Seite 243 - His praise, ye winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and wave your tops, ye pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave. • • Fountains, and ye that warble, as ye. flow, Melodious murmurs, warbling, tune his praise. Join voices, all ye living souls ! ye birds, That, singing, up to heaven's gate ascend, Bear on your wings and in your notes his praise.
Seite 224 - THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds...
Seite 224 - Their name, their years, spelt by th' unletter'd muse, The place of fame and elegy supply: And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who to dumb Forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind?
Seite 117 - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison, HUGHES.
Seite 341 - I could weep My spirit from mine eyes ! — There is my dagger, And here my naked breast ; within, a heart Dearer than Plutus...
Seite 230 - Where village statesmen talk'd with looks profound, And news much older than their ale went round. Imagination fondly stoops to trace The...