Principles of Elocution: Containing Numerous Rules, Observations, and Exercises on Pronunciation, Pauses, Inflections, Accent and Emphasis, Also Copious Extracts in Prose and Poetry

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Oliver & Boyd, 1832

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The Poor weep unheeded
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The Story of a Disabled Soldier
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The Business and Qualifications of a Poet
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Remarks on some of the best Poets
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Exclamation
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On the comparative Merit of Homer and Virgil
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On Human Grandeur
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Ethelgar A Saxon Poem
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Kenrick Translated from the Saxon
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Series of Serieses
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Transposition of Accent
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The Antecedent
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Hard Words defended
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On the Love of Life
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Luxury and Avarice
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On the increased Love of Life with Age
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On Universal Benevolence
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On the Formation of Language
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HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL EXTRACTS
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The Character of Cato
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The Dead Ass
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The Truth frees us from the slavish Fear of Death
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On the General Fast 1803
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The Promises of Religion to the Young
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On Autumn
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SPECIMENS OF MODERN ELOQUENCE 1 Funeral Eulogium on Dr Franklin
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General Wolfe to his Army
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Speech of Mr Horace Walpole
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Mr Pitts Reply
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Rules for Reading Verse On Scanning 5 Lord Lytteltons Speech on the Repeal of the Act called the Jew Bill224
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Sir John St Aubins Speech for Repealing the Septennial Act
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Sir Robert Walpoles Reply
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Mr Pulteneys Speech on the Motion for Reducing the Army
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Speech of Lord Chatham
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Speech of the Earl of Chesterfield
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SPECIMENS OF ANCIENT ELOQUENCE 1 The Speech of a Roman Officer to his Soldiers
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Speech of Charidemus to Darius 3 The Scythian Ambassadors to Alexander
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The Beginning of the First Philippic of Demosthenes
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Hannibal to his Soldiers
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Scipio to the Roman Army
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The Patriot 3 Eulogy on Pitt
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The Soldiers Dream
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The Female Exile
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The Battle of Hohenlinden
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The Battle of Busaco
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The Visions of Fancy
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Hope the Friend of the Brave
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The Moral Change anticipated by Hope
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The Anticipations of Hope
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The Influence of Hope at the Close of Life
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On the Effects of Time and Change
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On True Dignity 17 Fox and Pitt
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The First Two Verses of Marmion
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The Death of Marmion
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On the Arrival of the British Army in Portugal
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From the Bride of Abydos
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On Ancient Greece
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Sarpedon to Glaucus
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Alexander the Great 26 Lines written on visiting a Scene in Argyleshire
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Part of a Poem on the Fear of God
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The last Speech of Cyrus
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A Ladys Salutation to her Garden in the Country 30 A Thought on Eternity 31 Davids Trust in God
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The Day of Judgment
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The Benedicite Paraphrased
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The Crow and the other Birds
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The Two Owls and the Sparrow
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Courage in Poverty
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The Lyre
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The Battle of Vittoria
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The Aspect of Greece
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The Turkish Lady
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A Ship Sinking
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Battle of the Baltic
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The Fate of Macgregor
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The Temple of Fame
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From the Field of Waterloo
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BLANK VERSE 1 Against Suicide
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Various Modes of Punishment
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The Ideas of the Divine Mind c
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On Slavery
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That Philosophy which stops at Secondary Causes reproved
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The Good Preacher and the Clerical Coxcomb
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Cardinal Wolseys Speech to Cromwell
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Character of Teribazus
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A Seatonian Prize Poem
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On the Importance of Time to Man
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On Death
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On the Being of a God
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On the Wonders of Redemption
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Lochiels Warning
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Vanoc and Valens
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Corin and Emmas Hospitality
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Coriolanus and Aufidius
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Lady Randolph and Douglas
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Albertos Exculpation
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Alfred and Devon
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The Quarrel of Brutus and Cassius
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Orestes delivering his Embassy to Pyrrhus
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Glenalvon and Norval
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Hector and Andromache
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Catos Senate
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Speech of Henry V at the Siege of Harfleur
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Marcelluss Speech to the Mob
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Richmond encouraging his Soldiers
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Henry V s Speech at Agincourt
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Speech of Edward the Black Prince
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How Douglas learned the Art of War
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Othellos Apology
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Cassius against Cæsar
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Alfreds Address to the Saxon Troops
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Leonidas offering to defend the Pass of Thermopylæ
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Oration in Praise of Coriolanus
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The Old English Lion
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The Passions
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Alexanders Feast
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Speech of Rolla
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Osmonds Dream
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Hamlets Advice to the Players
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Lady Randolphs Soliloquy
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Catos Soliloquy on the Immortality of the Soul
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Hamlets Soliloquy on Death
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Macbeths Soliloquy before Murdering Duncan
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COMIC EXTRACTS 1 Prologue to the Farce of the Apprentice
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Contest between the Nose and the Eyes
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Lodgings for Single Gentlemen
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The Newcastle Apothecary
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THE PASSIONS 1 Cheerfulness
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Raillery
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Love
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Pity
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Anger
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Revenge
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Sorrow
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Remorse
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Surprise
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Pride
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Perplexity
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Malice
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Página 366 - I cannot tell, what you and other men Think of this life; but, for my single self, I had as lief not be, as live to be In awe of such a thing as I m,yself.
Página 384 - The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despised 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 395 - Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile, Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court? Here feel we but the penalty of Adam, — The seasons...
Página 381 - Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus: but use all gently: for in the very torrent, tempest, and (as I may say) whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance, that may give it smoothness.
Página 379 - Brutus' love to Caesar was no less than his. If then that friend demand, why Brutus rose against Caesar, this is my answer,— Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more. Had you rather Caesar were living, and die all slaves; than that Caesar were dead, to live all...
Página 378 - 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 396 - 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.
Página 327 - Night, sable goddess ! from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world. Silence how dead! and darkness how profound! Nor eye nor listening ear an object finds ; Creation sleeps. 'Tis as the general pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause ; An awful pause! prophetic of her end.
Página 327 - The bell strikes one. We take no note of time, But from its loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the, knell of my departed hours : Where are they?
Página 349 - You have done that you should be sorry for. There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats; For I am arm'd so strong in honesty, That they pass by me as the idle wind Which I respect not.

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