The Art of Speaking: Containing, an Essay, in which are Given Rules for Expressing Properly the Principal Passions and Humours, which Occur in Reading, Or Public Speaking, and Lessons, Taken from the Ancients and Moderns ...Samuel Butler, 1804 - 291 страница |
Из књиге
Резултати 1-5 од 39
Страница 6
... better be published . Whoever imagines the English tongue unfit for oratory has not a just notion of it . That , by reason of the dis- proportion between its vowels and consonants , it is not quite so tractable as the Italian , and ...
... better be published . Whoever imagines the English tongue unfit for oratory has not a just notion of it . That , by reason of the dis- proportion between its vowels and consonants , it is not quite so tractable as the Italian , and ...
Страница 10
... better spoken , than by a gentleman , who yet had so little discernment in music , that he has often told me , the grinding of knives entertained him as much as Handel's organ . As soon as a child can read , without spelling the words ...
... better spoken , than by a gentleman , who yet had so little discernment in music , that he has often told me , the grinding of knives entertained him as much as Handel's organ . As soon as a child can read , without spelling the words ...
Страница 33
... better grace for his having learned to dance in the most elegant manner . The orator may not have actual occasion to express anger , jealousy , malice , and some few others of the more violent passions , for which I have here given ...
... better grace for his having learned to dance in the most elegant manner . The orator may not have actual occasion to express anger , jealousy , malice , and some few others of the more violent passions , for which I have here given ...
Страница 38
... better attitude , than those of an Egyptian mummy , than distorting himself into all the vio- lations of decorum , which affectation produces . Art , seen through , is execrable . Modesty ought ever to be conspicuous in the behaviour of ...
... better attitude , than those of an Egyptian mummy , than distorting himself into all the vio- lations of decorum , which affectation produces . Art , seen through , is execrable . Modesty ought ever to be conspicuous in the behaviour of ...
Страница 41
... better than their neighbours . But what is the plain English of this lamentable out- cry ? Why , truly , that they find people loath to go to the places of public instruction to be disgusted or lulled to sleep . And , that when they ...
... better than their neighbours . But what is the plain English of this lamentable out- cry ? Why , truly , that they find people loath to go to the places of public instruction to be disgusted or lulled to sleep . And , that when they ...
Садржај
55 | |
57 | |
58 | |
59 | |
60 | |
61 | |
63 | |
65 | |
66 | |
67 | |
68 | |
70 | |
71 | |
72 | |
73 | |
74 | |
75 | |
76 | |
77 | |
79 | |
101 | |
103 | |
106 | |
107 | |
109 | |
113 | |
115 | |
120 | |
121 | |
123 | |
124 | |
Друга издања - Прикажи све
Чести термини и фразе
Accufing Affectation Alarm Anger Anxiety Apology Apprehen arms Authority Averfion Bevil blood body breast Cæsar Caius Verres Complaint Contempt countenance countrymen Courage daugh daughter dead death defence demnation Demosthenes Diodotus Doubt ducats enemy Exciting expreffed express eyes Falstaff father favour fear gentleman Ghost give gods Greece Grief hand happiness hear heart heaven honour honour's worship hope Horror humour Humph Iago imagine Intreating Jugurtha king Longh look Lord Majesty mankind manner matter Merc mercy Micipsa mind mouth Narration nature Nick Bottom offended orator Othello passions patricians person Peter Quince phatical Pity Pray preachers pretend pride Queſtion Quin Quintilian Refufing Remonftr Reproof Roman Scythians shame shew Shyl Shylock soul speak speaker speech ſpoken Styx Submiffion thee thing thou thought thousand guineas tion utter Vexation virtue voice Volsci whole Wonder words
Популарни одломци
Страница 157 - Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal* vision, sensible To feeling as to sight? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?
Страница 139 - Cassius, now Leap in with me into this angry flood, And swim to yonder point?' Upon the word, Accoutred as I was, I plunged in, And bade him follow; so, indeed, he did. The torrent roar'd, and we did buffet it With lusty sinews, throwing it aside, And stemming it with hearts of controversy. But ere we could arrive the point propos'd, Caesar cried,
Страница 124 - Omnipotent. Ay me ! they little know How dearly I abide that boast so vain, Under what torments inwardly I groan, While they adore me on the throne of Hell. With diadem and sceptre high advanced, The lower still I fall, only supreme In misery ; such joy ambition finds.
Страница 218 - To be no more. Sad cure! for who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish rather, swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated Night, Devoid of sense and motion?
Страница 169 - Pray can I not, Though inclination be as sharp as will. My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent, And, like a man to double business bound, I stand in pause where I shall first begin, And both neglect. What if this cursed hand Were thicker than itself with brother's blood, Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens To wash it white as snow? Whereto serves mercy But to confront the visage of offence?
Страница 89 - How much of other each is sure to cost ; How each for other oft is wholly lost ; How inconsistent greater goods with these ; How sometimes life is...
Страница 124 - So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear, Farewell remorse : all good to me is lost ; Evil, be thou my good ; by thee at least Divided empire with heav'n's King I hold; By thee, and more than half perhaps will reign ; As man ere long and this new world shall know.
Страница 124 - And heavier fall ; so should I purchase dear Short intermission bought with double smart. This knows my punisher ; therefore as far From granting he, as I from begging peace...
Страница 162 - It must not be; there is no power in Venice Can alter a decree established: 'Twill be recorded for a precedent; And many an error, by the same example, Will rush into the state: it cannot be.
Страница 192 - With eyes darting fury, and a countenance distorted with cruelty, he orders the helpless victim of his rage to be stripped, and rods to be brought ; accusing him, but without the least shadow of evidence, or even of suspicion, of having come to Sicily as a spy.