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... 67 Cæsural Pause , 141 Rhetorical Action , 147 third , fifth , and octave , Falling Inflection , Rules for the Inflections , 68 General Hints to the Reader and • - 69 the Speaker , 151 • 152 Lindsey , 159 Dr. Johnson , 160 Dr. Johnson ,
... 67 Cæsural Pause , 141 Rhetorical Action , 147 third , fifth , and octave , Falling Inflection , Rules for the Inflections , 68 General Hints to the Reader and • - 69 the Speaker , 151 • 152 Lindsey , 159 Dr. Johnson , 160 Dr. Johnson ,
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... speaker , not only in delivering his own sentiments , but also in ascertaining the most delicate shades and graces of thought in- tended to be expressed in a piece of composition enunciated , so as to present to the mind of the hearer ...
... speaker , not only in delivering his own sentiments , but also in ascertaining the most delicate shades and graces of thought in- tended to be expressed in a piece of composition enunciated , so as to present to the mind of the hearer ...
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... SPEAKER . That the study of this science is capable of making great orators of the generality of men , no one has ... speakers often mar , and sometimes totally pervert , his meaning . Hence the importance of atten- tion to rules , by ...
... SPEAKER . That the study of this science is capable of making great orators of the generality of men , no one has ... speakers often mar , and sometimes totally pervert , his meaning . Hence the importance of atten- tion to rules , by ...
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... speaker , or a bad reader . To urge upon this community the importance of this science , may , nevertheless , be ... speakers in the pulpit , at the bar , in publick assem- blies , and in our legislative halls ; ignorance which , were it ...
... speaker , or a bad reader . To urge upon this community the importance of this science , may , nevertheless , be ... speakers in the pulpit , at the bar , in publick assem- blies , and in our legislative halls ; ignorance which , were it ...
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... speaker , that , without possessing it , in some tolera- ble degree , he will never be listened to with attention or in- terest . A clear and distinct ARTICULATION , so far from consti- tuting , as is too often supposed , merely an ...
... speaker , that , without possessing it , in some tolera- ble degree , he will never be listened to with attention or in- terest . A clear and distinct ARTICULATION , so far from consti- tuting , as is too often supposed , merely an ...
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Page 167 - 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' difference ; as, the icy fang, And churlish chiding of the winter's wind ; Which when it bites and blows upon my body, Even till I shrink with cold, I smile, and say, — This is no flattery : these are counsellors, That feelingly persuade me what I am.
Page 165 - Then kneeling down, to Heaven's Eternal King, The saint, the father, and the husband prays : Hope " springs exulting on triumphant wing," That thus they all shall meet in future days : There ever bask in uncreated rays, No more to sigh, or shed the bitter tear, Together hymning their Creator's praise, In such society, yet still more dear ; While circling time moves round in an eternal sphere.
Page 206 - Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests ; in all time, Calm or convulsed — in breeze or gale or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark heaving; — boundless, endless, and sublime — The image of Eternity — the throne Of the Invisible ; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made ; each zone Obeys thee : thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Page 189 - Cromwell, I did not think to shed a tear In all my miseries ; but thou hast forced 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, where no mention Of me more must be heard of, — say, I taught thee...
Page 307 - Liberty first and Union afterwards'; but everywhere, spread all over in characters of living light, blazing on all its ample folds, as they float over the sea and over the land, and in every wind under the whole heavens, that other sentiment, dear to every true American heart, Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable...
Page 296 - Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favourer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less ; for I have been long wakened from that dream of hope, in which I once boasted myself with so much exultation, " My Lord, " Your Lordship's most humble " Most obedient servant,
Page 206 - I wantoned with thy breakers — they to me Were a delight : and if the freshening sea Made them a terror — 'twas a pleasing fear, For I was as it were a child of thee, And trusted to thy billows far and near, And laid my hand upon thy mane — as I do here.
Page 264 - THE EPITAPH Here rests his head upon the lap of earth A youth to fortune and to fame unknown: Fair science frowned not on his humble birth, And melancholy marked him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere, . Heaven did a recompense as largely send: He gave to misery all he had, a tear: He gained from heaven ('twas all he wished) a friend.
Page 59 - On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the glowing Hours with flying feet— But hark!— that heavy sound breaks in once more, As if the clouds its echo would repeat; And nearer, clearer, deadlier than> before! Arm! Arm! it is— it is— the cannon's opening roar!
Page 210 - Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue : but if you mouth it, as many of our players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines.