The Speaker; Or Miscellaneous Pieces: Selected from the Best English Writers, Disposed Under Proper Heads for the Improvement of Youth, in Reading and Speaking; to which is Prefixed An Essay on Elocution |
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137 Ou the Immortality of the Soul Spectator ibid . On the Being of a God Young 840 BOOK V. ORATIONS AND HARANGUES . Junius Brutus over the dead Body of Lucretia Livy 142 Hannibal to his Soldiers ibido 144 C. Marius to the Romans ...
137 Ou the Immortality of the Soul Spectator ibid . On the Being of a God Young 840 BOOK V. ORATIONS AND HARANGUES . Junius Brutus over the dead Body of Lucretia Livy 142 Hannibal to his Soldiers ibido 144 C. Marius to the Romans ...
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These are the speakers , who , in Shakspeare's phrase , “ offend the judicious hearer to the soul , by tearing a passion to rags , to very tatters , to split the ears of the groundlings . " Cicero compares xiv ELOCUTION .
These are the speakers , who , in Shakspeare's phrase , “ offend the judicious hearer to the soul , by tearing a passion to rags , to very tatters , to split the ears of the groundlings . " Cicero compares xiv ELOCUTION .
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... by himself excels , And stands alone in indeclineables ; Conjunction , preposition , adverb join To stamp new vigour on the nervous line : In monosyllables his thunders roll He , she , IT , AND , WE , YE , chey , fright the soul .
... by himself excels , And stands alone in indeclineables ; Conjunction , preposition , adverb join To stamp new vigour on the nervous line : In monosyllables his thunders roll He , she , IT , AND , WE , YE , chey , fright the soul .
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There is but one way of fortifying the soul against all gloomy presages and terrors of mind ; and that is , by securing to ourselves the friendship and protection of that Being who disposes of events , and governs futurity .
There is but one way of fortifying the soul against all gloomy presages and terrors of mind ; and that is , by securing to ourselves the friendship and protection of that Being who disposes of events , and governs futurity .
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Though ap honourable title may be conveyed to posterity , yet the ennobling qualities which are the soul of greatness , are a sort of incommunicable perfections , and cannot be transferred . If a man could bequeath his virtues by ...
Though ap honourable title may be conveyed to posterity , yet the ennobling qualities which are the soul of greatness , are a sort of incommunicable perfections , and cannot be transferred . If a man could bequeath his virtues by ...
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appear arms army bear better breast breath Brutus cause CHAP consider continued death desire earth eternal eyes fair fall father fear feel fool fortune give grace hand happy hast hath head hear heard heart Heav'n hold honour hope hour human kind king laws leave light live look Lord manner master means mind nature never night o'er once pain pass passion peace perfection person pleasure poor praise present reason rest round rule seems sense side smile soon soul sound speak spirit stand sweet tears tell thee thing thou thought thousand thro true truth turn uncle Toby virtue voice whole winds wise wish young youth
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Page 96 - Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor : suit the action to the word, the word to the action ; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature...
Page 15 - Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves ; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely touch'd But to fine issues, nor Nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence, But, like a thrifty goddess, she determines Herself the glory of a creditor, Both thanks and use.
Page 16 - Cowards die many times before their deaths ; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear ; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come, when it will come.
Page 372 - Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And, sure, he is an honourable man. I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke, But here I am to speak what I do know. You all did love him once, — not without cause: What cause withholds you, then, to mourn for him? O judgment, thou art fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason! — Bear with me; My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar, And I must pause till it come back to me.
Page 376 - You have done that you should be sorry for. There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats ; For I am arm'd so strong in honesty, That they pass by me as the idle wind. Which I respect not.
Page 277 - The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon, With spectacles on nose, and pouch on side ; His youthful hose, well sav'd, a world too wide For his shrunk shank, and his big manly voice, Turning again toward childish treble, pipes And whistles in his sound.
Page 58 - I observing, Took once a pliant hour; and found good means To draw from her a prayer of earnest heart, That I would all my pilgrimage dilate, Whereof by parcels she had something heard, But not intentively...
Page 108 - In the bright muse, tho' thousand charms conspire, Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire; Who haunt Parnassus but to please their ear, Not mend their minds; as some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there. These equal syllables alone require, Tho...
Page 364 - O my lord, Must I, then, leave you? must I needs forego So good, so noble, and so true a master? Bear witness, all that have not hearts of iron, With what a sorrow Cromwell leaves his lord. The king shall have my service ; but my prayers For ever and for ever shall be yours.
Page 284 - The traces, of the smallest spider's web ; The collars, of the moonshine's watery beams : Her whip, of cricket's bone ; the lash, of film : Her...
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| Pealkiri | The Speaker; Or Miscellaneous Pieces: Selected from the Best English Writers, Disposed Under Proper Heads for the Improvement of Youth, in Reading and Speaking; to which is Prefixed An Essay on Elocution Mary P. Thompson library |
| Autor | William Enfield |
| Publisher | Joseph Larkin, 1808 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 9 okt. 2007 |
| Length | 400 pages |
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