The Arts of Writing, Reading, and SpeakingCarleton, 1868 - 321 pagina's |
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The Arts of Writing, Reading, and Speaking: Letters to a Law Student Edward William Cox Volledige weergave - 1881 |
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2d Cit accomplishment acquired action actor appear argument art of reading art of speaking arts of writing assembly audience avoid barrister beginning breath Brutus Cæsar cloth composition convey cultivated desire dialogue difficult discourse drop letters effect elocution eloquence emotions emphasis endeavor English exercise expression fault feel give habit Hamlet hear hearers hints humor ideas illustrations inflection intelligence Julius Cæsar jury language lesson Letter lips listener manner Mark Antony matter meaning memory ment metre mind monotony narrative natural necessary never observe orator oratory passage pause periphrasis persons platform poetry practice precisely pulpit purpose raise your voice reader readily repeat rightly rules sense sentence sound speaker speech spoken style success suggest sympathy talk taste teach tell tence thoughts tion tone tongue turbed uncon utterance vate voice words written
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Pagina 145 - Before the Sun, Before the Heavens, thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle, did'st invest The rising world of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless Infinite...
Pagina 131 - Prick'd from the lazy finger of a maid : Her chariot is an empty hazel-nut, Made by the joiner squirrel, or old grub, Time out of mind the fairies' coach-makers. And in this state she gallops night by night Through lovers...
Pagina 127 - Mine eyes are made the fools o' the other senses, Or else worth all the rest ; I see thee still, And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood, Which was not so before.
Pagina 308 - As Caesar loved me, I weep for him; as he was fortunate, I rejoice at it; as he was valiant, I honour him ; but, as he was ambitious, I slew him.
Pagina 309 - Here comes his body, mourned by Mark Antony: who, though he had no hand in his death , shall receive the benefit of his dying, a place in the commonwealth ; As which of you shall not ? With this I depart ; That, as I slew my bes't lover" for the good of Rome, I have the same dagger for myself, when it shall please my country to need my death.
Pagina 311 - When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man. You all did see that on the Lupercal I thrice presented him a kingly crown, Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition? Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And, sure, he is an honourable man. I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke, But here I am to speak what I do know.
Pagina 125 - Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature: for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was and is, to hold, as 't were, the mirror up to nature ; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure.
Pagina 126 - And let those that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them : for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the mean time, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered: that's villainous; and . shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.
Pagina 312 - But yesterday, the word of Caesar might Have stood against the world : now lies he there, And none so poor to do him reverence.
Pagina 125 - O; it offends me to the soul, to hear a robustious periwigpated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings ; who, for the most part, are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows and noise : I would have such a fellow whipped for o'er-doing Termagant ; it out-herods Herod : pray you, avoid it.