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 pages |
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... speaker , is of the utmost importance , and that a just and pleafing manner in delivering either one's own ... speakers , much more than in the matter uttered by them , and from the little effect pro- duced by their labours . Of the ...
... speaker , is of the utmost importance , and that a just and pleafing manner in delivering either one's own ... speakers , much more than in the matter uttered by them , and from the little effect pro- duced by their labours . Of the ...
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... speakers . Young perfons ought not to be put upon writing ( from their own funds , I mean ) till they have furnished their minds with thoughts , that is , till they have gotten funds : but they cannot be kept from fpeaking . Suppofe a ...
... speakers . Young perfons ought not to be put upon writing ( from their own funds , I mean ) till they have furnished their minds with thoughts , that is , till they have gotten funds : but they cannot be kept from fpeaking . Suppofe a ...
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... honours in the state . Even in our - own country , that is partly the cafe ; for the inftances of bed Pliny fays , Ifocrates was paid that fum for one oration . Speakers Peakers rifing to eminent ftations in the government are rare ( 4 )
... honours in the state . Even in our - own country , that is partly the cafe ; for the inftances of bed Pliny fays , Ifocrates was paid that fum for one oration . Speakers Peakers rifing to eminent ftations in the government are rare ( 4 )
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... speaker , where were the ufe of art or culture ; which yet no one pretends to queftion ? Art is but nature improved upon and refined . And before improvement is applied , genius is but a mafs of ore in the mine , without luftre , and ...
... speaker , where were the ufe of art or culture ; which yet no one pretends to queftion ? Art is but nature improved upon and refined . And before improvement is applied , genius is but a mafs of ore in the mine , without luftre , and ...
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... speaker among twenty , who knows what to do with his eyes . To fee the venerable man , who is to be the mouth of a whole people confeffing their offences to their Creator and Judge , bring out thefe awful words , " Almighty and moft ...
... speaker among twenty , who knows what to do with his eyes . To fee the venerable man , who is to be the mouth of a whole people confeffing their offences to their Creator and Judge , bring out thefe awful words , " Almighty and moft ...
Common terms and phrases
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
Popular passages
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 210 - I'll look up; My fault is past. But, O, what form of prayer Can serve my turn? 'Forgive me my foul murder?
Page 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?
Page 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.
Page 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...