The Art of Speaking: Containing, I. An Essay; in which are Given Rules for Expressing Properly the Principal Passions and Humours, ... II. Lessons Taken from the Ancients and Moderns ...T. Longman, T. Field, C. Dilly, W. Goldsmith, D. Ogilvy and J. Speare, 1792 - 373 Seiten |
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... thing on these branches of oratory . I fhall confine myself merely to what the prince of orators pronounced to be the firft , fecond , and third B third part , or all that is most important in A - N SPEAKING CONTAINING,
... thing on these branches of oratory . I fhall confine myself merely to what the prince of orators pronounced to be the firft , fecond , and third B third part , or all that is most important in A - N SPEAKING CONTAINING,
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... thing remark- ably striking has been uttered ; by which means the hearers have time to ruminate upon it , before the matter , which follows , can put it out of their thoughts . Of this , inftances will occur in the following lessons ...
... thing remark- ably striking has been uttered ; by which means the hearers have time to ruminate upon it , before the matter , which follows , can put it out of their thoughts . Of this , inftances will occur in the following lessons ...
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... things ; and who gave thee this " authority ? " the emphatical words are authority and who : because what the Jews afked our Saviour was , by what power , or authority , he did his wonderful works ; and be he came by that power . And in ...
... things ; and who gave thee this " authority ? " the emphatical words are authority and who : because what the Jews afked our Saviour was , by what power , or authority , he did his wonderful works ; and be he came by that power . And in ...
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... thing that pafles . Words , if any , few , and thofe dragged out , rather than Spoken ; the accents weak , and interrupted , fighs breaking into the middle of fentences and words . • Curæ leves loquuntur ; ingentes Rupent . Senec . Hipp ...
... thing that pafles . Words , if any , few , and thofe dragged out , rather than Spoken ; the accents weak , and interrupted , fighs breaking into the middle of fentences and words . • Curæ leves loquuntur ; ingentes Rupent . Senec . Hipp ...
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... thing in his own defence , caufes his tongue to faulter , and confounds his utter- ance ; and puts him upon making a thousand gestures and grimaces , to keep himself in countenance ; all which only heighten the confufion of his ...
... thing in his own defence , caufes his tongue to faulter , and confounds his utter- ance ; and puts him upon making a thousand gestures and grimaces , to keep himself in countenance ; all which only heighten the confufion of his ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Accus AFFECT againſt APOL APPREHENS arms becauſe body Caius Verres confequence confiderable CONT CONTEMPT dead death defign defire Diodotus doft Doub enemy ENQU expreffed eyes faid fame father fear fecure feem feen fenfe fentence feven fhall fhew fhould fleep fome fometimes foon foul fpeaker fpeaking fpeech ftate ftill fubjects fuch fuffer fufficient fuperior fuppofe fure Ghoft Ghoſt Greece GRIEF hand heaven himſelf honour hope HORROR Humph Iago INTR INTREAT itſelf Jugurtha king leaſt lefs loft Longh look manner matter moft moſt muft muſt myſelf NARRA Nick Bottom Numidia occafion orator ourſelves paffage paffions perfon Peter Quince PITY pleafing pleaſe pleaſure Pray prefent QUEST Quintilian raiſe reafon REMON rife Roman ſay Scythians ſhall Shyl Shylock ſpeak ſpoken ſtate thee thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe thou thought TION uſed VENERA VEXAT voice whofe whoſe wife words
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 115 - The bell strikes One. We take no note of time But from its loss : to give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours. Where are they? With the years beyond the flood.
Seite 92 - Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn, Sure pledge of day, that crown'st the smiling morn With thy bright circlet, praise Him in thy sphere, While day arises, that sweet hour of prime.
Seite 100 - To sigh for ribands if thou art so silly, Mark how they grace Lord Umbra or Sir Billy. Is yellow dirt the passion of thy life ? Look but on Gripus or on Gripus
Seite 44 - Our words flow from us in a smooth continued stream, without those strainings of the voice, motions of the body, and majesty of the hand, which are so much celebrated in the orators of Greece and Rome. We can talk of life and death in cold blood, and keep our temper in a...
Seite 93 - 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.
Seite 240 - With eyes darting fury, and a countenance distorted with cruelty, he orders the helpless victim of his rage to be stripped, and rods to be brought ; accusing him, but without the least shadow of evidence, or even of suspicion, of having come to Sicily as a spy.
Seite 210 - I'll look up; My fault is past. But, O, what form of prayer Can serve my turn? 'Forgive me my foul murder?
Seite 276 - Awaked, should blow them into sevenfold rage And plunge us in the flames? or from above Should intermitted vengeance arm again His red right hand to plague us?
Seite 93 - Of Nature's womb, that in quaternion run Perpetual circle, multiform ; and mix And nourish all things ; let your ceaseless change Vary to our great Maker still new praise.
Seite 145 - O thou that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion, like the god Of this new world, at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads, to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere...