A Grammar of Elocution: Containing the Principles of the Arts of Reading and Speaking; Illustrated by Appropriate Exercises and Examples ...A. H. Maltby, 1830 - 344 pàgines |
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... heart , as with the intellect - I address myself to them , I say , and ask whether the great orators I have men- tioned , might not have put in a claim to exemption from the drudgery of elocution , if ever it could be safely pleaded ...
... heart , as with the intellect - I address myself to them , I say , and ask whether the great orators I have men- tioned , might not have put in a claim to exemption from the drudgery of elocution , if ever it could be safely pleaded ...
Pàgina 50
... heart to this vote . Go starve and be forgotten . The road forks about a mile hence . He errs in his estimate . Search the scriptures . He was a harsh overseer . What fear'st thou . For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn . At ...
... heart to this vote . Go starve and be forgotten . The road forks about a mile hence . He errs in his estimate . Search the scriptures . He was a harsh overseer . What fear'st thou . For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn . At ...
Pàgina 51
... heart . A prison with a good conscience , rather than a palace without it . The bells tinckled on the ear . He truckles to power . Thou chuckl'dst over thy gains too soon . One extremity was pointed , the other bulb'd . The bulbs should ...
... heart . A prison with a good conscience , rather than a palace without it . The bells tinckled on the ear . He truckles to power . Thou chuckl'dst over thy gains too soon . One extremity was pointed , the other bulb'd . The bulbs should ...
Pàgina 52
... boundless bursts from the grove . song It was a union of hearts as well as hands . Earth's ample breast . He searched the house for it , It hurts me . Thou hurt'st his feelings . On entering the palace the 52 GRAMMAR OF ELOCUTION .
... boundless bursts from the grove . song It was a union of hearts as well as hands . Earth's ample breast . He searched the house for it , It hurts me . Thou hurt'st his feelings . On entering the palace the 52 GRAMMAR OF ELOCUTION .
Pàgina 111
... . Ye have angel's faces , but heaven knows your hearts : I am the most unhappy woman living . EXAMPLE 4. Deep sorrow . " Oh my son Absalom , my son , my son Absalom , would God I had died for thee , O Absalom PLAINTIVENESS OF SPEECH . 111.
... . Ye have angel's faces , but heaven knows your hearts : I am the most unhappy woman living . EXAMPLE 4. Deep sorrow . " Oh my son Absalom , my son , my son Absalom , would God I had died for thee , O Absalom PLAINTIVENESS OF SPEECH . 111.
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A Grammar of Elocution: Containing the Principles of the Arts of Reading and ... Jonathan Barber Visualització completa - 1830 |
A Grammar of Elocution: Containing the Principles of the Arts of Reading and ... Jonathan Barber Visualització completa - 1830 |
A Grammar of Elocution: Containing the Principles of the Arts of Reading and ... Jonathan Barber Visualització completa - 1830 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 111 - 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.
Pàgina 182 - She saith unto him, Yea, Lord : I believe that thou art the Christ the Son of God, which should come into the world.
Pàgina 133 - Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain, Here earth and water, seem to strive again ; Not chaos-like together crushed and bruised, But as the world harmoniously confused: Where order in variety we see, And where, though all things differ, all agree.
Pàgina 147 - Love framed with Mirth a gay fantastic round : Loose were her tresses seen, her zone unbound ; And he, amidst his frolic play, As if he would the charming air repay, Shook thousand odours from his dewy wings.
Pàgina 111 - Hovered thy spirit o'er thy sorrowing son, Wretch even then, life's journey just begun ? Perhaps thou gavest me, though unfelt, a kiss ; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss ; Ah, that maternal smile, it answers yes...
Pàgina 147 - But soon he saw the brisk awakening viol, Whose sweet, entrancing voice he loved the best. They would have thought who heard the strain, They saw in Tempe's...
Pàgina 150 - Reserved him to more wrath ; for now the thought Both of lost happiness and lasting pain Torments him : round he throws his baleful eyes, That...
Pàgina 85 - Homer was the greater genius; Virgil the better artist: in the one, we most admire the man; in the other, the work. Homer hurries us with a commanding impetuosity ; Virgil leads us with an attractive majesty. Homer scatters with a generous profusion ; Virgil bestows with a careful magnificence. Homer, like the Nile, pours out his riches with a sudden overflow ; Virgil, like a river in its banks, with a constant stream.
Pàgina 47 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision.