Lessons in Elocution: Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse, for the Improvement of Youth in Reading and SpeakingH. Brown, 1817 - 407 páginas |
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... desire or affection ; the hands clapped in surprise , and in sudden joy and grief ; the right hand clenched , and arms brandished , to threat- en ; the two arms set akimbo , to look big , and express contempt or courage . With the hands ...
... desire or affection ; the hands clapped in surprise , and in sudden joy and grief ; the right hand clenched , and arms brandished , to threat- en ; the two arms set akimbo , to look big , and express contempt or courage . With the hands ...
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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 , musica ! 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 , musica ! 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 gen- tly 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 ...
... Desire and Respect ) and expresses itself in a mild tone of voice ; the arms gen- tly 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 ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 219 - Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Página 369 - She'd come again, and with a greedy ear Devour up my discourse. Which I observing, Took once a pliant hour; and found good means To draw from her a prayer of earnest heart, That I would all my pilgrimage dilate...
Página 243 - Twilight gray had in her sober livery all things clad : Silence accompanied ; for Beast and Bird, they to their grassy couch, these to their nests, were slunk, — all but the wakeful nightingale; she, all night long, her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleased. Now...
Página 361 - All this? ay, more: Fret till your proud heart break; Go, show your slaves how choleric you are, And make your bondmen tremble.
Página 237 - Yet he was kind, or if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault...
Página 220 - The sober herd that low'd to meet their young ; The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool, The playful children just let loose from school ; The watch-dog's voice, that bay'd the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind ; These all in sweet confusion sought the shade, And fill'd each pause the nightingale had made.
Página 236 - Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent: Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part, As full, as perfect, in a hair as heart; As full, as perfect, in vile man that mourns, As the rapt seraph that adores and burns: To him no high, no low, no great, no small; He fills, he bounds, connects, and equals all.
Página 354 - Why, well : Never so truly happy, my good Cromwell. I know myself now ; and I feel within me A peace above all earthly dignities, A still and quiet conscience.
Página 253 - Orphean lyre, I sung of Chaos and eternal Night ; Taught by the heavenly muse to venture down The dark descent, and up to reascend, Though hard and rare : thee I revisit safe, And feel thy sovereign vital lamp ; but thou Revisitest not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn ; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs, Or dim suffusion veiled.
Página 362 - There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats, For I am arm'd so strong in honesty That they pass by me as the idle wind, Which I respect not.