Lessons in Elocution, Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse: For the Improvement of Youth in Reading and Speaking : as Well as for the Perusal of Persons of Taste : with an Appendix ...Peter B. Gleason, 1812 - 382 pagini |
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Pagina 16
... heart against the next lesson ; and then the first boy must speak it , standing at some distance before the rest , in the manner directed in the Plates ; the second boy must succeed him , and so on till they have all spoken . After ...
... heart against the next lesson ; and then the first boy must speak it , standing at some distance before the rest , in the manner directed in the Plates ; the second boy must succeed him , and so on till they have all spoken . After ...
Pagina 20
... opens the mouth toward the ears ; bites the lips ; widens the nostrils ; gnashes with the teeth , like a fierce wild beast . The heart is too much hardened to suffer tears to flow ; yet the eye - balls will be red 20 ELEMENTS.
... opens the mouth toward the ears ; bites the lips ; widens the nostrils ; gnashes with the teeth , like a fierce wild beast . The heart is too much hardened to suffer tears to flow ; yet the eye - balls will be red 20 ELEMENTS.
Pagina 21
... heart beats violently ; the breath is fetched quick and short ; the whole body is thrown into a general tremor . The voice is weak and trembling ; the sentences are short , and the meaning confused and incoherent . Imminent danger ...
... heart beats violently ; the breath is fetched quick and short ; the whole body is thrown into a general tremor . The voice is weak and trembling ; the sentences are short , and the meaning confused and incoherent . Imminent danger ...
Pagina 31
... heart , and exhibits a striking proof , how terrible a creature a puny mortal is , when agitated by an infernal passion . Dotage , or infirm old age , shows itself by talkativeness , boasting of the past , hollowness of eyes and checks ...
... heart , and exhibits a striking proof , how terrible a creature a puny mortal is , when agitated by an infernal passion . Dotage , or infirm old age , shows itself by talkativeness , boasting of the past , hollowness of eyes and checks ...
Pagina 45
... heart . Hypocrisy is a homage that vice pays to virtue . Anxiety and constraint are the constant attendants of pride . Men make themselves ridiculous , not so much by the qualities they have , as by the affectation of those they have ...
... heart . Hypocrisy is a homage that vice pays to virtue . Anxiety and constraint are the constant attendants of pride . Men make themselves ridiculous , not so much by the qualities they have , as by the affectation of those they have ...
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action admiration appear arms beauty behold blood body breast Brutus Cæsar Caius Verres Carthaginians charm cheerfulness Cicero Clodius countenance danger dear death delight earth enemy express eyes father fear fortune friends give glory grace hand happy hath head hear heart heaven honor hope hour human Jugurtha Keswick kind king Lady G live look Lord mankind manner master Micipsa Milo mind mouth nature never night noble Numidia o'er object once pain passion Patricians peace person pleasure Plebeian Pompey praise privy counsellor Quintilian Rhadamanthus rise Roman Roman senate Rome Saguntum scene sense Sicily side smile soul sound speak speaker Spectator speech spirit sweet taste tears tell thee thing thou thought tion truth Twas uncle Toby virtue voice whole words young youth