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; Exhibiting a Variety of Matter for Practice; the Emphatical Words Printed in Italics; with Notes of Direction Referring to the Essay ...S. Butler, 1804 - 291 pages |
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Page 57
... Sicily . Their mutual friend- ship was so strong , that they were ready to die for one another . One of the two ( for it is not known which ) being condemned to death by the tyrant , obtained leave to go into his own coun- try , to ...
... Sicily . Their mutual friend- ship was so strong , that they were ready to die for one another . One of the two ( for it is not known which ) being condemned to death by the tyrant , obtained leave to go into his own coun- try , to ...
Page 58
... Sicily , shewed how far he was from being happy , even whilst he abounded in riches , and all the pleasures which riches can procure . Damocles , one of his flatterers , was complimenting him upon his power , his treasures , and the ...
... Sicily , shewed how far he was from being happy , even whilst he abounded in riches , and all the pleasures which riches can procure . Damocles , one of his flatterers , was complimenting him upon his power , his treasures , and the ...
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... Sicily , and leaving that people with such grateful impressions of me on account of my behaviour , while I was among them , as , I hope , will not soon be effaced ; it appeared , that as they had great dependence upon their former ...
... Sicily , and leaving that people with such grateful impressions of me on account of my behaviour , while I was among them , as , I hope , will not soon be effaced ; it appeared , that as they had great dependence upon their former ...
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... Sicilians had not requested my assistance ; and though I had not been by my promise , and my connexions with that ... Sicily on-- ly , but in Achaia , Asia Minor , Cilicia , Pam- philia , and even here at home ; that such a man might ...
... Sicilians had not requested my assistance ; and though I had not been by my promise , and my connexions with that ... Sicily on-- ly , but in Achaia , Asia Minor , Cilicia , Pam- philia , and even here at home ; that such a man might ...
Page 191
... Sicily , with one voice , accuses Verres of plundering her of her gold and silver , of the rich- es of her towns , her cities , and temples , and of all she enjoyed under the protection of the Ro- man commonwealth , to the value of many ...
... Sicily , with one voice , accuses Verres of plundering her of her gold and silver , of the rich- es of her towns , her cities , and temples , and of all she enjoyed under the protection of the Ro- man commonwealth , to the value of many ...
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Accufing Affectation Alarm Anger anguish Anxiety Apology Apprehen arms Authority Bevil blood body breast Cæsar Caius Verres Complaint Contempt countenance countrymen Courage daugh daughter dead death defence demnation Demosthenes Diodotus Doubt 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 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 Sicily soul speak speaker speech ſpoken Styx Submiffion Surpriſe thee thing thou thought thousand guineas tion utter Vexation virtue voice Volsci whole Wonder words
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Page 122 - It must be so — Plato, thou reasonest well ; Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought ? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? Tis the divinity that stirs within us ; 'Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man ! Eternity ! thou pleasing, dreadful thought ! Through what variety of untried being, Through what new scenes...
Page 166 - 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 173 - 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?
Page 143 - 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 proposed, Caesar cried ' Help me, Cassius, or I sink...
Page 143 - As a sick girl. Ye gods ! it doth amaze me A man of such a feeble temper should So get the start of the majestic world And bear the palm alone.
Page 161 - 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 167 - Take then thy bond, take thou thy pound of flesh; But, in the cutting it, if thou dost shed One drop of Christian blood, thy lands and goods Are, by the laws of Venice, confiscate Unto the state of Venice.
Page 125 - Nine years!' cries he, who, high in Drury Lane, Lull'd by soft zephyrs through the broken pane, Rhymes ere he wakes, and prints before Term ends, Obliged by hunger, and request of friends: 'The piece, you think, is incorrect? why take it, I'm all submission; what you'd have it, make it.
Page 123 - To whom the goblin full of wrath replied. «Art thou that traitor- Angel, art thou He> Who first broke peace in Heaven ; and faith, till then Unbroken, and in proud rebellious arms Drew after him the third part of Heaven's sons...
Page 122 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.