Lessons in Elocution, Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse: For the Improvement of Youth in Reading and SpeakingHill and Moore, 1820 - 384 páginas |
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... hand neither horizontal nor virtical , but exactly between both . The position of the arm , perhaps will be best des- cribed , by supposing an oblong hollow square formed by the measure of four arms as in plate I , where the arm in its ...
... hand neither horizontal nor virtical , but exactly between both . The position of the arm , perhaps will be best des- cribed , by supposing an oblong hollow square formed by the measure of four arms as in plate I , where the arm in its ...
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... hand , as if lifeless , must drop down to the side , the very moment the last accented word is pronounced ; and the body , without altering the place of the feet , poise itself on the left leg , while the left hand raises itself , into ...
... hand , as if lifeless , must drop down to the side , the very moment the last accented word is pronounced ; and the body , without altering the place of the feet , poise itself on the left leg , while the left hand raises itself , into ...
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... hand and arm properly , he may be taught to move it . In this motion he must be careful to keep the arm fromthe body . He must neither draw the elbow backwards , nor suffer it to approach to the side ; but , while the hand and lower ...
... hand and arm properly , he may be taught to move it . In this motion he must be careful to keep the arm fromthe body . He must neither draw the elbow backwards , nor suffer it to approach to the side ; but , while the hand and lower ...
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... hand open , and the thumb at some distance from the fingers ; and particular attention must be paid , to keeping the hand in an ex- act line with the lower part of the arm , so as not to bend at the wrist , either when it is held out ...
... hand open , and the thumb at some distance from the fingers ; and particular attention must be paid , to keeping the hand in an ex- act line with the lower part of the arm , so as not to bend at the wrist , either when it is held out ...
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... hand . That is , supposing the stage or platform where they stand to be quadrangle , each speaker should , respectively , face the corner of it next to the audience ; and use that hand , and rest upon that leg , which is next to the ...
... hand . That is , supposing the stage or platform where they stand to be quadrangle , each speaker should , respectively , face the corner of it next to the audience ; and use that hand , and rest upon that leg , which is next to the ...
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Página 349 - Cromwell, I did not think to shed a tear In all my miseries; but thou hast forc'd me Out of thy honest truth to play the woman. Let's dry our eyes: and thus far hear me, Cromwell ; And, — when I am forgotten, as I shall be ; And sleep in dull cold marble...
Página 230 - Soft roll your incense, herbs, and fruits, and flowers, In mingled clouds to Him whose Sun exalts, Whose breath perfumes you, and whose pencil paints. Ye forests, bend, ye harvests, wave to Him ; Breathe your still song into the reaper's heart, As home he goes beneath the joyous Moon.
Página 374 - 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.
Página 373 - Romans, countrymen, and lovers ! hear me for my cause, and be silent, that you may hear : believe me for mine honour, and have respect to mine honour, that you may believe : censure me in your wisdom, and awake your senses, that you may the better judge. If there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of Caesar's, to him I say that Brutus' love to Caesar was no less than his.
Página 356 - Caius Cassius so? When Marcus Brutus grows so covetous, To lock such rascal counters from his friends, Be ready, gods, with all your thunderbolts; Dash him to pieces!
Página 366 - The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despis'd love, the law's delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin...
Página 231 - tis nought to me; Since God is ever present, ever felt, In the void waste as in the city full ; And where He vital breathes there must be joy.
Página 254 - Married to immortal verse ; Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed and giddy cunning ; The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony ; That Orpheus...
Página 262 - The bottles twain, behind his back, were shattered at a blow. Down ran the wine into the road, most piteous to be seen, Which made his horse's flanks to smoke as they had basted been. But still he...
Página 363 - My story being done, She gave me for my pains a world of sighs: She swore, in faith, 'twas strange, 'twas passing strange; 'Twas pitiful, 'twas wondrous pitiful: She wish'd she had not heard it, yet she wish'd That heaven had made her such a man...