The Speaker: Or, Miscellaneous Pieces, Selected from the Best English Writers,: And Disposed Under Proper Heads, with a View to Facilitate the Improvement of Youth in Reading and Speaking. : To which is Prefixed An Essay on ElocutionJ. Johnson, 1785 - 405 стор. |
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... breath , and a forcible action of the organs em- ployed in forming them ; and let all the vowel founds have a full and bold utterance . Practife thefe rules with perfeverance , till you have ac- quired ftrength and energy of speech ...
... breath , and a forcible action of the organs em- ployed in forming them ; and let all the vowel founds have a full and bold utterance . Practife thefe rules with perfeverance , till you have ac- quired ftrength and energy of speech ...
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... Cadence . NE of the worft faults a speaker can have , is to make no other paufes than what he finds barely neceffary for breathing . I know of nothing nothing that such a speaker can fo properly be compared XX AN ESSAY ON.
... Cadence . NE of the worft faults a speaker can have , is to make no other paufes than what he finds barely neceffary for breathing . I know of nothing nothing that such a speaker can fo properly be compared XX AN ESSAY ON.
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... breath Rides on the pofting winds , and doth belie All corners of the world . Kings , queens , and ftates , Maids , matrons , nay the fecrets of the grave , This viperous flander enters . THERE is a tide in the affairs of men , Which ...
... breath Rides on the pofting winds , and doth belie All corners of the world . Kings , queens , and ftates , Maids , matrons , nay the fecrets of the grave , This viperous flander enters . THERE is a tide in the affairs of men , Which ...
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... breath to bear . There if Ambition , peftilent and pale , Or Luxury fhould taint their vernal glow ; If cold Self - intereft , with her chilling gale , Should blaft th ' unfolding bloffoms e'er they blow ; If mimic hues , by Art , or ...
... breath to bear . There if Ambition , peftilent and pale , Or Luxury fhould taint their vernal glow ; If cold Self - intereft , with her chilling gale , Should blaft th ' unfolding bloffoms e'er they blow ; If mimic hues , by Art , or ...
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... breathing marbles and the sculptur'd gold , Beyond the proud poffeffor's narrow claim , His tuneful breaft enjoys . For him the spring Diftils her dews , and from the filken gem Its lucid leaves unfolds : for him , the hand Of autumn ...
... breathing marbles and the sculptur'd gold , Beyond the proud poffeffor's narrow claim , His tuneful breaft enjoys . For him the spring Diftils her dews , and from the filken gem Its lucid leaves unfolds : for him , the hand Of autumn ...
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Сторінка 375 - O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, That I am meek and gentle with these butchers; Thou art the ruins of the noblest man That ever lived in the tide of times. Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood ! Over thy wounds now do I prophesy...
Сторінка 298 - Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot...
Сторінка 213 - Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, And after one hour more 'twill be eleven ; And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot ; And thereby hangs a tale.
Сторінка 327 - How lov'd, how honour'd once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot ; A heap of dust alone remains of thee, 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be ! Poets themselves must fall, like those they sung, Deaf the prais'd ear, and mute the tuneful tongue.
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Сторінка 376 - Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil, that men do, lives after them ; The good is oft interred with their bones ; So let it be with Caesar.
Сторінка 274 - Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful Jollity, Quips and cranks, and wanton wiles, Nods and becks, and wreathed smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek ; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides.
Сторінка 255 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike th' inevitable hour. The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Сторінка 378 - O, now you weep; and, I perceive, you feel The dint of pity : these are gracious drops. Kind souls, what ! weep you, when you but behold Our Caesar's vesture wounded ? Look you here, Here is himself, marr'd, as you see, with traitors.
Сторінка 395 - tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law. But 'tis not so above: There is no shuffling; there the action lies In his true nature; and we ourselves compell'd, Even to the teeth and forehead of our faults, To give in evidence.