Lessons in Elocution, Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse: For the Improvement of Youth in Reading and Speaking ... to which are Prefixed, Elements of Gesture ... and Rules for Expressing, with Propriety, the Various Passions, &c. of the Mind |
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... soul of the holy man were going to take its flight to heaven . The force of attitude and looks alone appears in a won- derously striking manner , in the works of the painter and statuary ; who have the delicate art of making the flat ...
... soul of the holy man were going to take its flight to heaven . The force of attitude and looks alone appears in a won- derously striking manner , in the works of the painter and statuary ; who have the delicate art of making the flat ...
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... soul , than what one feels in his own person . Grief , sudden , and violent , expresses itself by beating the head ; grovelling on the ground , tearing of garments , hair , and flesh ; screaming aloud , weeping , stamping with the feet ...
... soul , than what one feels in his own person . Grief , sudden , and violent , expresses itself by beating the head ; grovelling on the ground , tearing of garments , hair , and flesh ; screaming aloud , weeping , stamping with the feet ...
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... soul is the seat of such confusion ! and tumult , must be in as much greater misery than Pro- metheus , with the vulture tearing his liver , as the pains of the mind are greater than those of the body . Jealousy is a ferment of love ...
... soul is the seat of such confusion ! and tumult , must be in as much greater misery than Pro- metheus , with the vulture tearing his liver , as the pains of the mind are greater than those of the body . Jealousy is a ferment of love ...
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... - priety , are determined to command the attention of the vulgar . These are the speakers , who in Shakespeare's phrase , " offend the judicious hearer to the soul , by tear- ing a passion to rags , to very tatters , 34 ESSAY ON ELOCUTION .
... - priety , are determined to command the attention of the vulgar . These are the speakers , who in Shakespeare's phrase , " offend the judicious hearer to the soul , by tear- ing a passion to rags , to very tatters , 34 ESSAY ON ELOCUTION .
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... soul . Emphasis is often destroyed by an injudicious attempt to read melodiously . Agreeable inflections and easy variations of the voice , as far as they arise from , or are consistent with just speaking , are worthy of attention . But ...
... soul . Emphasis is often destroyed by an injudicious attempt to read melodiously . Agreeable inflections and easy variations of the voice , as far as they arise from , or are consistent with just speaking , are worthy of attention . But ...
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