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... force and beauty : mere harangues feldom fail to catch the ear , but rarely touch the heart , and as feldom inform the head . It is neceffary that an orator fhould call the paf- fions to his aid ; but then he fhould be very cau- tious ...
... force and beauty : mere harangues feldom fail to catch the ear , but rarely touch the heart , and as feldom inform the head . It is neceffary that an orator fhould call the paf- fions to his aid ; but then he fhould be very cau- tious ...
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... force of paffion , is confequently more diffi- cult . It requires the fineft , and moft fignificant feelings , in the performer , to create , by fympathy , proper fenfations in the audience , That noble and almoft peculiar fenfe of ...
... force of paffion , is confequently more diffi- cult . It requires the fineft , and moft fignificant feelings , in the performer , to create , by fympathy , proper fenfations in the audience , That noble and almoft peculiar fenfe of ...
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... force ; whereas , if the ftrefs was laid upon other words , or if the whole was uttered with monotony ( a fameness of tone ) the fenfe would be confused ; and to a hearer , whofe apprehenfion was not very quick , perhaps quite ...
... force ; whereas , if the ftrefs was laid upon other words , or if the whole was uttered with monotony ( a fameness of tone ) the fenfe would be confused ; and to a hearer , whofe apprehenfion was not very quick , perhaps quite ...
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... force and exaltation of expreffion , which more powerfully impresses each fubject on the mind ; and is not only of in- difpenfible use , but also highly ornamental . In the execution of this , there is much nicety , as the . rife , in ...
... force and exaltation of expreffion , which more powerfully impresses each fubject on the mind ; and is not only of in- difpenfible use , but also highly ornamental . In the execution of this , there is much nicety , as the . rife , in ...
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... , O'er heav'n's high towers to force resistless way ; Turning our tortures into horrid arms Against our torturer - When to meet the noise Of Of his terrific engine , he shall hear Infernal thunder ESSAY ON ORATORY . 33.
... , O'er heav'n's high towers to force resistless way ; Turning our tortures into horrid arms Against our torturer - When to meet the noise Of Of his terrific engine , he shall hear Infernal thunder ESSAY ON ORATORY . 33.
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Page 41 - 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?
Page 45 - How that might change his nature, there's the question: It is the bright day that brings forth the adder; And that craves wary walking. Crown him? — that? And then, I grant, we put a sting in him, That at his will he may do danger with.
Page 48 - ... creeping like snail Unwillingly to school. And then the Lover, Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad Made to his mistress
Page 41 - Mine eyes are made the fools o' the other senses, Or else worth all the rest ; I see thee still, And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood, Which was not so before.
Page 35 - Farewell the tranquil mind ! Farewell content ! Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars, That make ambition virtue ! O, farewell ! Farewell the neighing steed, and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife, The royal banner ; and all quality. Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war ! And O, you mortal engines, whose rude throats The immortal Jove's dread clamours counterfeit, Farewell ! Othello's occupation's gone ! lago.
Page 38 - O my soul's joy ! If after every tempest come such calms, May the winds blow till they have waken'd death ! And let the labouring bark climb hills of seas, Olympus-high ; and duck again as low As hell's from heaven ! If it were now to die, 'Twere now to be most happy ; for, I fear, My soul hath her content so absolute, That not another comfort like to this Succeeds in unknown fate.
Page 30 - He is the Rock, his work is perfect : for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.
Page 40 - Which reason, joining or disjoining, frames All what we' affirm or what deny, and call Our knowledge or opinion ; then retires Into her private cell, when nature rests. Oft in her absence mimic fancy wakes To imitate her; but, misjoining shapes, Wild work produces oft, and most in dreams ; 111 matching words and deeds long past or late.
Page 30 - For the Lord's portion is his people ; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.
Page 45 - Tis a confummation Devoutly to be wifh'd. To die — to fleep — To fleep ' perchance to dream ? ay, there's the rub ; For in that fleep of death what dreams may come, When we have fhuffied off this mortal coil, Muft give us paufe.