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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Сторінка vi
... Nature , is certainly the fundamental law of Oratory , without a regard to which , all o- ther rules will only produce affected declamation , not just elocution . And fome accurate observers , judging , perhaps , from a few unlucky ...
... Nature , is certainly the fundamental law of Oratory , without a regard to which , all o- ther rules will only produce affected declamation , not just elocution . And fome accurate observers , judging , perhaps , from a few unlucky ...
Сторінка vii
... nature , and as far as they prevail must destroy all propriety and grace of utterance ; and to make choice of fuch a courfe of practical leffons , as fhall give the speaker an opportunity of ex- ercifing himself in each branch of ...
... nature , and as far as they prevail must destroy all propriety and grace of utterance ; and to make choice of fuch a courfe of practical leffons , as fhall give the speaker an opportunity of ex- ercifing himself in each branch of ...
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... Nature instructs us to relate a story , to fupport an argument , to com- mand a fervant , to utter exclamations of anger or rage , and to and to pour forth lamentations and forrows , not only with different tones , but different eleva ...
... Nature instructs us to relate a story , to fupport an argument , to com- mand a fervant , to utter exclamations of anger or rage , and to and to pour forth lamentations and forrows , not only with different tones , but different eleva ...
Сторінка xiii
... nature directs . ઃઃ In the fame compofition there may be frequent occafion to alter the height of the voice , in paff- ing from one part to another , without any change of person . Shakespear's " All the world's aftage , " & c . and ...
... nature directs . ઃઃ In the fame compofition there may be frequent occafion to alter the height of the voice , in paff- ing from one part to another , without any change of person . Shakespear's " All the world's aftage , " & c . and ...
Сторінка xvi
... nature of the fimple founds . RULE VI . In every fentence diftinguish the more fignificant words by a natural , forcible , and varied EM- PHASIS . E MPHASIS points out the precife meaning of a fentence , fhews in what manner one idea is ...
... nature of the fimple founds . RULE VI . In every fentence diftinguish the more fignificant words by a natural , forcible , and varied EM- PHASIS . E MPHASIS points out the precife meaning of a fentence , fhews in what manner one idea is ...
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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.