A class-book of elocution |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 64
Page iv
... less adapted to the practice of oratory ? It is not to be supposed that the clerical profession consider the aids of elocution as , in any degree , beneath the dignity , or incompatible with the sacredness , of the pulpit . Some ...
... less adapted to the practice of oratory ? It is not to be supposed that the clerical profession consider the aids of elocution as , in any degree , beneath the dignity , or incompatible with the sacredness , of the pulpit . Some ...
Page v
... less impressive reader than the men of other professions ? Are the aids of voice and action so adventi- tious as to merit no consideration ? Is the great cause of gospel truth unworthy of them ? Does not the pulpit pre- sent the most ...
... less impressive reader than the men of other professions ? Are the aids of voice and action so adventi- tious as to merit no consideration ? Is the great cause of gospel truth unworthy of them ? Does not the pulpit pre- sent the most ...
Page 16
... less duration is also required wherever an abruptness occurs in the progress of thought , wherever the uniform construction of the sentence is interrupted , as in the case of the dash , the exclamation , parenthesis , & c . , in which ...
... less duration is also required wherever an abruptness occurs in the progress of thought , wherever the uniform construction of the sentence is interrupted , as in the case of the dash , the exclamation , parenthesis , & c . , in which ...
Page 24
... less degree . Again . The negative or concessive member , instead of commencing a sentence , may conclude it , in which case the order of the modulations is reversed . Thus- " Happiness is conferred upon us , not earned by ourselves ...
... less degree . Again . The negative or concessive member , instead of commencing a sentence , may conclude it , in which case the order of the modulations is reversed . Thus- " Happiness is conferred upon us , not earned by ourselves ...
Page 36
... less of trouble and difficulty , of entangle- ment and perplexity , of danger and hazard , in it ; it is the shortest and nearest way to our end , carrying us thither in a straight line ; and will hold out , and last longest . The arts ...
... less of trouble and difficulty , of entangle- ment and perplexity , of danger and hazard , in it ; it is the shortest and nearest way to our end , carrying us thither in a straight line ; and will hold out , and last longest . The arts ...
Contents
13 | |
23 | |
37 | |
50 | |
66 | |
74 | |
87 | |
93 | |
210 | |
217 | |
224 | |
231 | |
250 | |
258 | |
264 | |
277 | |
100 | |
109 | |
117 | |
133 | |
146 | |
153 | |
160 | |
175 | |
201 | |
208 | |
287 | |
302 | |
306 | |
313 | |
319 | |
326 | |
332 | |
339 | |
345 | |
352 | |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
action animal appear arms beauty become better called cause character Christian close comes common creation dark death deep earth effect example existence expression face falling father fear feel field flowers follow force give grace hand happy hear heard heart heaven hope hour human important inflection interest kind king land language laws less light live look Lord means merely mind modulation moral nature never o'er object once pass peace person present principle question reader reason requires rest rising round rule scene seems seen sense sentence side soul sound speak spirit stand tell thee things thou thought tion true truth turn virtue voice waters whole young
Popular passages
Page 45 - Honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on ? how then ? Can honour set to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound ? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then ? No. What is honour? A word. What is in that word, honour? What is that honour? Air. A trim reckoning ! — Who hath it? He that died o
Page 283 - Lands intersected by a narrow frith Abhor each other. Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one.
Page 330 - Seems, madam! nay, it is; I know not seems. 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black, Nor windy suspiration of forc'd breath, No, nor the fruitful river in the eye.
Page 114 - The depth saith, It is not in me; and the sea saith, It is not with me. It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof.
Page 265 - Is it far away in some region old, Where the rivers wander o'er sands of gold ? Where the burning rays of the ruby shine, And the diamond lights up the secret mine, And the pearl gleams forth from the coral strand — Is it there, sweet mother, that better land ? Not there ; not there, my child.
Page 217 - ON Linden, when the sun was low, All bloodless lay the untrodden snow, And dark as winter was the flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly. But Linden saw another sight, When the drum beat at dead of night, Commanding fires of death to light The darkness of her scenery.
Page 275 - Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow...
Page 94 - tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them ? — To die — to sleep — No more ; and, by a sleep, to say we end The heartache, and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to — 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die — to sleep ; — To sleep ! perchance to dream : — ay, there's the rub ; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal...
Page 208 - There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar...
Page 299 - 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.