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 18
... smile , opening the mouth a little more . Mirth or laughter , opens the mouth still more towards the ears ; crisps the nose ; lessens the aperture of the eyes , and sometimes fills them with tears ; shakes and convulses the whole frame ...
... smile , opening the mouth a little more . Mirth or laughter , opens the mouth still more towards the ears ; crisps the nose ; lessens the aperture of the eyes , and sometimes fills them with tears ; shakes and convulses the whole frame ...
Pagina 25
... smile ; bends the body a little forward , the fect equal ; spreads the arms , with the hands open , as to re- ceive the object of its longings . The tone of the voice is eager and unevenly inclining to that of joy ; but curbed by a ...
... smile ; bends the body a little forward , the fect equal ; spreads the arms , with the hands open , as to re- ceive the object of its longings . The tone of the voice is eager and unevenly inclining to that of joy ; but curbed by a ...
Pagina 28
... smile , a ridiculous surliness , or affected bravado , disgraces the bloated countenane . The mouth open , tumbles out nonsense in heaps , without articulation enough for any ear to take it in , and unworthy of attention , if it could ...
... smile , a ridiculous surliness , or affected bravado , disgraces the bloated countenane . The mouth open , tumbles out nonsense in heaps , without articulation enough for any ear to take it in , and unworthy of attention , if it could ...
Pagina 30
... smile . Immediate- ly the face clouded with a general gloom shows the mind overcast again with horrid suspicions , and frightful ima ginations . Then the arms are folded upon the breast ; the fists violently clenched ; the rolling ...
... smile . Immediate- ly the face clouded with a general gloom shows the mind overcast again with horrid suspicions , and frightful ima ginations . Then the arms are folded upon the breast ; the fists violently clenched ; the rolling ...
Pagina 52
... smile of approbation ; placed her at his right hand , and she imme- diately became his principal favorite and prime minister . A IX . The partial Judge . FARMER came to a neighboring Lawyer , expres- sing great concern for an accident ...
... smile of approbation ; placed her at his right hand , and she imme- diately became his principal favorite and prime minister . A IX . The partial Judge . FARMER came to a neighboring Lawyer , expres- sing great concern for an accident ...
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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