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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... Styx , down I should have gone . For that matter , I had been fairly drown'd if the shore had not been so kind as to shelve it a little in my favour . And then to think , only to think of my being drown'd ! —A man of my size ! For your ...
... Styx , down I should have gone . For that matter , I had been fairly drown'd if the shore had not been so kind as to shelve it a little in my favour . And then to think , only to think of my being drown'd ! —A man of my size ! For your ...
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... And to shew you how willing I am to be conformable , look you there , away go my wallet and my staff into the Styx . And as for my cloak , I did not bring it with me . Approba . Affected Beauty . - Come into Merc . LESSON S. 181.
... And to shew you how willing I am to be conformable , look you there , away go my wallet and my staff into the Styx . And as for my cloak , I did not bring it with me . Approba . Affected Beauty . - Come into Merc . LESSON S. 181.
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... Styx with such a load of flesh about you ? One of your legs would Apprehen . sink the boat . 5th Ghost . What , must I put off my very Vexation , flesh ? Merc . Yes , surely . 5th Ghost . If I must , I must . * Now then , let me come ...
... Styx with such a load of flesh about you ? One of your legs would Apprehen . sink the boat . 5th Ghost . What , must I put off my very Vexation , flesh ? Merc . Yes , surely . 5th Ghost . If I must , I must . * Now then , let me come ...
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... Styx ? Difappoint . 5th Ghost . What , are there no great folks there ? Merc . Why , you simpleton , don't you know , Contempt . that those , who were greatest in t'other world , are meanest in that you are going to ? Besides , there ...
... Styx ? Difappoint . 5th Ghost . What , are there no great folks there ? Merc . Why , you simpleton , don't you know , Contempt . that those , who were greatest in t'other world , are meanest in that you are going to ? Besides , there ...
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... Styx , and then we shall perhaps talk to you . 10th Ghost . I am an emperor , and could bring three hundred thousand men into the field , and— 11th Ghost . I am a female conqueror , and have had princes at my feet . My beauty has been ...
... Styx , and then we shall perhaps talk to you . 10th Ghost . I am an emperor , and could bring three hundred thousand men into the field , and— 11th Ghost . I am a female conqueror , and have had princes at my feet . My beauty has been ...
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Accufing Affectation Alarm Anger anguish Anxiety Apology Apprehen arms Authority Bevil blood body breast Cęsar 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...
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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?
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