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... thought , action , and culture . When chosen , let the piece be read with great care , before the effort is made to memorize it . Put yourself , as far as possible , into the position of the orator or author , and attain to the spirit ...
... thought , action , and culture . When chosen , let the piece be read with great care , before the effort is made to memorize it . Put yourself , as far as possible , into the position of the orator or author , and attain to the spirit ...
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... thoughts are not addressed to them , but are busy drawing up from the wells of memory something which needs the ... thought yourself , not as he rendered it , but as it ought to be rendered . It cannot be doubted that many a school ...
... thoughts are not addressed to them , but are busy drawing up from the wells of memory something which needs the ... thought yourself , not as he rendered it , but as it ought to be rendered . It cannot be doubted that many a school ...
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... thought in different sentences or clauses . As a matter of practice it is found that some persons find it very diffi- cult to get out of a continued monotone , one dead level of voice , like a song all on one note ; or with a slight ...
... thought in different sentences or clauses . As a matter of practice it is found that some persons find it very diffi- cult to get out of a continued monotone , one dead level of voice , like a song all on one note ; or with a slight ...
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... thought which is uttered . Gesture , in its widest compass , subsidizes the whole body to give force and expression to the speech . It is not the arms and hands alone which the orator should use , but he should make the head , the eye ...
... thought which is uttered . Gesture , in its widest compass , subsidizes the whole body to give force and expression to the speech . It is not the arms and hands alone which the orator should use , but he should make the head , the eye ...
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... in poetry , the beautiful thoughts uttered in musical speech are for the behoof of the hearers ; but in the drama , by a fiction of the play , each speaker is to act unconsciously of an audience ; the other speakers INTRODUCTION . xxiii.
... in poetry , the beautiful thoughts uttered in musical speech are for the behoof of the hearers ; but in the drama , by a fiction of the play , each speaker is to act unconsciously of an audience ; the other speakers INTRODUCTION . xxiii.
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Page 350 - A man severe he was, and stern to view, I knew him well, and every truant knew: Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace The day's disasters in his morning face; Full well they laughed with counterfeited glee At all his jokes, for many a joke had he; Full well the busy whisper circling round, Conveyed the dismal tidings when he frowned.
Page 508 - For do but note a wild and wanton herd, Or race of youthful and unhandled colts, Fetching mad bounds, bellowing, and neighing loud, Which is the hot condition of their blood ; If they but hear perchance a trumpet sound, Or any air of music touch their ears, You shall perceive them make a mutual stand, Their savage eyes turned to a modest gaze, By the sweet power of music : Therefore, the poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones, and floods ; Since nought so stockish, hard, and full of rage,...
Page 45 - ... a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene : and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below:" so always, that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride. Certainly, it is heaven upon earth to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.
Page 399 - I sprang to the stirrup, and Joris, and he; I galloped, Dirck galloped, we galloped all three; "Good speed!" cried the watch, as the gate-bolts undrew; "Speed!
Page 400 - So we were left galloping, Joris and I, Past Looz and past Tongres, no cloud in the sky; The broad sun above laughed a pitiless laugh, 'Neath our feet broke the brittle, bright stubble like chaff; Till over by Dalhem a dome-spire sprang white, And "Gallop," gasped Joris, "for Aix is in sight!
Page 273 - Then she runneth and cometh to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and saith unto them, They have taken away the Lord out of the sepulchre, and we know not where they have laid him.
Page 499 - Beware Of entrance to a quarrel; but, being in, Bear it, that the opposer may beware of thee. Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice: Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.
Page 422 - And Ardennes waves above them her green leaves, Dewy with nature's tear-drops as they pass, Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave, - alas! Ere evening to be trodden like the grass Which now beneath them, but above shall grow In its next verdure, when this fiery mass Of living valour, rolling on the foe And burning with high hope shall moulder cold and low.
Page 60 - I deny not, but that it is of greatest concernment in the Church and Commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors. For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are...
Page 509 - As in a theatre the eyes of men, After a well-graced actor leaves the stage, Are idly bent on him that enters next, Thinking his prattle to be tedious ; Even so, or with much more contempt, men's eyes Did scowl on gentle Richard : no man cried, God save him...