Elocution: the Sources and Elements of Its Power: A Textbook for Schools and Colleges, and a Book for Every Public Speaker, and Student of the English LanguageC. Scribner, 1871 - Počet stran: 406 |
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Strana 66 - aspect, A broken voice, and his whole function suiting With forms to his conceit—and all for nothing ? For Hecuba! What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, That he should weep for her ? What would he do, Had he the motive and the cue for passion That I have? Yet I, A dull and muddy-mettled rascal,
Strana 168 - gives us the following direction: " Suit the action to the word, and the word to the action ; w'ith this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature.... For in the very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say, whirlwind of your passion, you • must acquire and beget a
Strana 170 - if you mouth it, as many of our players do, I had as lief the town crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand—thus, but use all gently. For in the very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say, whirlwind of
Strana 378 - This is an important rule, often violated with damaging effect. The following is an example of the former case. 0 Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen doth gather her brood under her wings, and ye would not 1
Strana 171 - and heard others praise, and that highly—not to speak it profanely—that neither having the accent of Christians, nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed, that I had thought some of nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitated
Strana 333 - tis madness to defer. Next day the fatal precedent will plead. Thus on, till wisdom is pushed out of life. Procrastination is the thief of time ; Year after year it steals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment, leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene.
Strana 371 - state of man : to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope; to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honors thick upon him ; The third day comes a frost, a killing frost : And when he thinks, good easy man, full surely
Strana 65 - which afford us another striking evidence of the genuineness of histrionic feeling. O what a rogue and peasant slave am I! Is it not monstrous that this player here, But in a fiction, in a dream of passion, Could force his soul so to his own conceit, That from her working all his visage wanned , Tears in his eyes, distraction
Strana 363 - enraged Northumberland. Let heaven kiss earth ; now let not nature's hand Keep the wild flood confined ; let order die ; And let this world no longer be a stage To feed contention in a lingering act; But let one spirit of the first-born Cain, Keign in all bosoms ; that, each heart being set On bloody
Strana 334 - the face, which as a beacon gives warning to all the rest of this little kingdom, man, to arm ; and then the vital commoners, and inland petty spirits, muster me all to their captain, the heart; who, great and puffed up with this retinue, doth any deed of courage—and this valor comes of sherris Hereof comes it that Prince