The Art of Speaking: Containing. An Essay, in which are Given Rules for Expressing Properly the Principal Passions and Humours, which Occur in Reading, Or Public Speaking. And Lessons, Taken from the Ancients and Moderns; Exhibiting a Variety of Matter for Practice; the Emphatical Words Printed in Italics; with Notes of Direction Referring to the Essay ...S. Butler, 1804 - 291 pages |
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... mouths frightfully ; others keep their teeth so close together that one would think their jaws were set ; some shrivel all ... mouth of a whole people confessing their offences to their Creator and Judge , bring out these awful words ...
... mouths frightfully ; others keep their teeth so close together that one would think their jaws were set ; some shrivel all ... mouth of a whole people confessing their offences to their Creator and Judge , bring out these awful words ...
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... bring out the captive kings to slaughter . Open the mouth of the cave , and bring out those five kings to me out of the cave ; " which he uttered in the very manner 66 he would have expressed himself , if he had said [ 14 ]
... bring out the captive kings to slaughter . Open the mouth of the cave , and bring out those five kings to me out of the cave ; " which he uttered in the very manner 66 he would have expressed himself , if he had said [ 14 ]
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... mouth open , shews one state of the mind ; shut , anoth er ; the gnashing of the teeth , another . The forehead smooth , and eyebrows arched and easy , shew tranquillity or joy . Mirth opens the mouth towards the ears , crisps the nose ...
... mouth open , shews one state of the mind ; shut , anoth er ; the gnashing of the teeth , another . The forehead smooth , and eyebrows arched and easy , shew tranquillity or joy . Mirth opens the mouth towards the ears , crisps the nose ...
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... mouth not quite shut ; and the eyes passing with an easy motion from object to object , but not dwelling long upon any one . Cheerfulness adds a smile , opening the mouth a little more . Mirth or laughter , opens the mouth still more ...
... mouth not quite shut ; and the eyes passing with an easy motion from object to object , but not dwelling long upon any one . Cheerfulness adds a smile , opening the mouth a little more . Mirth or laughter , opens the mouth still more ...
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... mouth and pinches the lips close . The posture of the body and limbs is composed , and without much motion .. The speech , if any , slow and solemn ; the tone unvarying . 14 Enquiry into an obscure subject , fixes the body in one ...
... mouth and pinches the lips close . The posture of the body and limbs is composed , and without much motion .. The speech , if any , slow and solemn ; the tone unvarying . 14 Enquiry into an obscure subject , fixes the body in one ...
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Accufing Affectation Alarm Anger anguish Anxiety Apology Apprehen arms Authority Bevil blood body breast Cæsar Caius Verres Complaint Contempt countenance countrymen Courage daugh daughter dead death defence demnation Demosthenes Diodotus Doubt enemy Exciting expreffed express eyes Falstaff father favour fear gentleman Ghost give gods Greece Grief hand happiness hear heart heaven honour honour's worship hope Horror humour Humph Iago imagine Intreating Jugurtha king Longh look Lord mankind manner matter Merc mercy Micipsa mind mouth Narration nature Nick Bottom offended orator Othello passions patricians person Peter Quince phatical Pity Pray preachers pretend pride Queſtion Quin Quintilian Refufing Remonftr Reproof Roman Scythians shame shew Shyl Shylock Sicily soul speak speaker speech ſpoken Styx Submiffion Surpriſe thee thing thou thought thousand guineas tion utter Vexation virtue voice Volsci whole Wonder words
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Page 122 - It must be so — Plato, thou reasonest well ; Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought ? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? Tis the divinity that stirs within us ; 'Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man ! Eternity ! thou pleasing, dreadful thought ! Through what variety of untried being, Through what new scenes...
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Page 173 - I stand in pause where I shall first begin, And both neglect. What if this cursed hand Were thicker than itself with brother's blood, Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens To wash it white as snow?
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Page 125 - Nine years!' cries he, who, high in Drury Lane, Lull'd by soft zephyrs through the broken pane, Rhymes ere he wakes, and prints before Term ends, Obliged by hunger, and request of friends: 'The piece, you think, is incorrect? why take it, I'm all submission; what you'd have it, make it.
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