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... dramatist for all that he utters , and when the writer stays his pen , the latter is silent , and ceases to speak . B SUGGESTIONS ON THE ORDER OF STUDY . THE author having ELOCUTION Eloquence and its relative adjuncts defined.
... dramatist for all that he utters , and when the writer stays his pen , the latter is silent , and ceases to speak . B SUGGESTIONS ON THE ORDER OF STUDY . THE author having ELOCUTION Eloquence and its relative adjuncts defined.
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... writer's thoughts . He will depict the leading character , but the author gives life and being to them all . Let us not , however , underrate the actor's merit who faithfully personates the shades and contrasts of character , investing ...
... writer's thoughts . He will depict the leading character , but the author gives life and being to them all . Let us not , however , underrate the actor's merit who faithfully personates the shades and contrasts of character , investing ...
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... writers on the subject have adopted a variety of expedients , in the shape of rules and exercises , illus- trative of the principles of grammar , and their application , with numerous details , which , however helpful to the younger ...
... writers on the subject have adopted a variety of expedients , in the shape of rules and exercises , illus- trative of the principles of grammar , and their application , with numerous details , which , however helpful to the younger ...
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... writer's option , without impairing the meaning . Thus , of the human heart we say , indifferently , that it is deceitful , corrupt , inconstant , fickle , uncertain , changeable , mutable , variable , fluctuating , irresolute . To ...
... writer's option , without impairing the meaning . Thus , of the human heart we say , indifferently , that it is deceitful , corrupt , inconstant , fickle , uncertain , changeable , mutable , variable , fluctuating , irresolute . To ...
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... writer , and having fixed on some spiritedly graphic and well - penned portion , note well the style , and think over it a little ; then make an attempt , and not be discouraged by partial failure , but think and 30 THE ORATOR'S GUIDE ...
... writer , and having fixed on some spiritedly graphic and well - penned portion , note well the style , and think over it a little ; then make an attempt , and not be discouraged by partial failure , but think and 30 THE ORATOR'S GUIDE ...
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The Orator's Guide, Or the Practice and Power of Eloquence John Antrobus (Essayist ) No preview available - 2015 |
The Orator's Guide, Or the Practice and Power of Eloquence John Antrobus (Essayist ),John Antrobus (Essayist. No preview available - 2019 |
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Page 101 - When He made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder, then did He see it, and declare it : He prepared it, yea, and searched it out.
Page 123 - So may the outward shows be least themselves : The world is still deceiv'd with ornament. In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But being season'd with a gracious voice Obscures the show of evil ? In religion, What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it, and approve it with a text...
Page 53 - Hope humbly then ; with trembling pinions soar, Wait the great teacher, Death ; and God adore. What future bliss, he gives not thee to know, But gives that hope to be thy blessing now. Hope springs eternal in the human breast : Man never Is, but always to be blest ; The soul, uneasy, and confined from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
Page 90 - I will be as the dew unto Israel : he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon. His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon. They that dwell under his shadow shall return ; they shall revive as the corn, and grow as the vine : the scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon.
Page 124 - For honour travels in a strait so narrow, Where one but goes abreast ; keep, then, the path ; For Emulation hath a thousand sons That one by one pursue ; if you give way, Or hedge aside from the direct forthright, Like to an enter'd tide, they all rush by, And leave you hindmost.
Page 48 - Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, Pleas'd with a rattle, tickled with a straw; Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite ; Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage, And beads and prayer-books are the toys of age ;* Pleas'd with this bauble still, as that before ; Till tired he sleeps, and life's poor play is o'er!
Page 78 - And, besides this, giving all diligence, add to your faith, virtue ; and to virtue, knowledge ; And to knowledge, temperance ; and to temperance, patience ; and to patience, godliness ; And to godliness, brotherly kindness ; and to brotherly kindness, charity. For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Page 110 - Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion? Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?
Page 52 - The only point where human bliss stands still, And tastes the good without the fall to ill ; Where only merit constant pay receives, Is...
Page 114 - Euphrosyne, And by men heart-easing Mirth; Whom lovely Venus, at a birth, With two sister Graces more, To ivy-crowned Bacchus bore...