Lessons in Elocution: Or, A Selection of Pieces, in Prose and Verse, for the Improvement of Youth in Reading and Speaking ...Hori Brown, 1820 - Всего страниц: 407 |
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... desire or affection ; the hands . clapped in surprise , and in sudden joy and grief ; the right hand clenched , and the arms brandished , to threat- ; the two arms set akimbo , to look big , and express contempt or courage . With the ...
... desire or affection ; the hands . clapped in surprise , and in sudden joy and grief ; the right hand clenched , and the arms brandished , to threat- ; the two arms set akimbo , to look big , and express contempt or courage . With the ...
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... Desire dif- fers from hope as to expression , in this particular , that there is more appearance of doubt and anxiety in the former , than in the latter . For it is one thing to desire what is agreeable , and another to have a prospect ...
... Desire dif- fers from hope as to expression , in this particular , that there is more appearance of doubt and anxiety in the former , than in the latter . For it is one thing to desire what is agreeable , and another to have a prospect ...
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... desire ; ( see Desire ) but mixed with an air of satisfaction and repose . The accents are soft and winning ; the tone of voice persuasive , flattering , pathet ic , various , musical , rapturous , as in joy . ( See Joy . ) The attitude ...
... desire ; ( see Desire ) but mixed with an air of satisfaction and repose . The accents are soft and winning ; the tone of voice persuasive , flattering , pathet ic , various , musical , rapturous , as in joy . ( See Joy . ) The attitude ...
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... Desire , Attention , Hope , Inquiry and perplexity . ) Persuasion , puts on the looks of moderate love . ( See Love . ) Its accents are soft , flattering , emphatical and articulate . Tempting , or wheedling , expresses itself much in ...
... Desire , Attention , Hope , Inquiry and perplexity . ) Persuasion , puts on the looks of moderate love . ( See Love . ) Its accents are soft , flattering , emphatical and articulate . Tempting , or wheedling , expresses itself much in ...
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... Desire and Respect , and expresses itself in a mild tone of voice ; the arms gently spread ; the palms of the hands toward the person ap- proved . Exhorting , or encouraging , as of an army by a general , is expressed with some part of ...
... Desire and Respect , and expresses itself in a mild tone of voice ; the arms gently spread ; the palms of the hands toward the person ap- proved . Exhorting , or encouraging , as of an army by a general , is expressed with some part of ...
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Стр. 351 - Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage; Then lend the eye a terrible aspect; Let it pry through the portage of the head Like the brass cannon: let the brow o'erwhelm it As fearfully as doth a galled rock O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean. Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide; Hold hard the breath, and bend up every spirit To his full height.
Стр. 224 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour: The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Стр. 347 - She lov'd me for the dangers I had pass'd, And I lov'd her that she did pity them.
Стр. 243 - His praise, ye winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and wave your tops, ye pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave. • • Fountains, and ye that warble, as ye. flow, Melodious murmurs, warbling, tune his praise. Join voices, all ye living souls ! ye birds, That, singing, up to heaven's gate ascend, Bear on your wings and in your notes his praise.
Стр. 224 - THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds...
Стр. 224 - Their name, their years, spelt by th' unletter'd muse, The place of fame and elegy supply: And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who to dumb Forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind?
Стр. 117 - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison, HUGHES.
Стр. 341 - I could weep My spirit from mine eyes ! — There is my dagger, And here my naked breast ; within, a heart Dearer than Plutus...
Стр. 230 - Where village statesmen talk'd with looks profound, And news much older than their ale went round. Imagination fondly stoops to trace The...