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 pages |
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... gained any ground , ever since the days of Aris- totle . That the manner or address of a speaker , is of the utmost importance , and that a just and pleasing manner in delivering either one's own compositions , or those of others , is ...
... gained any ground , ever since the days of Aris- totle . That the manner or address of a speaker , is of the utmost importance , and that a just and pleasing manner in delivering either one's own compositions , or those of others , is ...
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... gained by skill in the art of speaking may not now be sufficient to reward the indefatigable diligence used by a Demosthenes , a Pericles , an Eschines , a Demetrius Phalereus , an Isocrates , a Carbo , a Cicero , a M. Antho- ny , an ...
... gained by skill in the art of speaking may not now be sufficient to reward the indefatigable diligence used by a Demosthenes , a Pericles , an Eschines , a Demetrius Phalereus , an Isocrates , a Carbo , a Cicero , a M. Antho- ny , an ...
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... gained ; he must content himself to be buried in a country curacy , or vicarage at most , for life . * If nature unassisted could form the eminent speaker , where were the use of art or culture , which yet no one pretends to question ...
... gained ; he must content himself to be buried in a country curacy , or vicarage at most , for life . * If nature unassisted could form the eminent speaker , where were the use of art or culture , which yet no one pretends to question ...
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... gaining the end of preach- ing . It may be alledged that the clergy cannot be expected to be great orators for fifty or an hundred pounds a year , which poor pittance is as much as many hundreds , I may say thousands , of them , have to ...
... gaining the end of preach- ing . It may be alledged that the clergy cannot be expected to be great orators for fifty or an hundred pounds a year , which poor pittance is as much as many hundreds , I may say thousands , of them , have to ...
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... gaining their end , of alarming , per- suading , and reforming mankind , appears from considering how little chance we should have of producing any good effect upon a people strongly attached to pleasures , riches , and honours , by ...
... gaining their end , of alarming , per- suading , and reforming mankind , appears from considering how little chance we should have of producing any good effect upon a people strongly attached to pleasures , riches , and honours , by ...
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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
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Page 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?
Page 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,
Page 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.
Page 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?
Page 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?
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.