The Art of Speaking: Containing, I. An Essay; in which are Given Rules for Expressing Properly the Principal Passions and Humours, ... II. Lessons Taken from the Ancients and Moderns ...T. Longman, T. Field, C. Dilly, W. Goldsmith, D. Ogilvy and J. Speare, 1792 - 373 σελίδες |
Συχνά εμφανιζόμενοι όροι και φράσεις
Accus AFFECT againſt ALARM APOL APPREHENS arms becauſe Bevil body Caius Verres cauſe confequence confiderable CONT CONTEMPT COUR dead death defire Doub ENCOU enemy ENQU expreſſed eyes fame father favour fear feem fenfe fentence firſt fome foul fubject fuch fuffer fuperior fure Ghoſt give GRIEF hand heart heaven honour hope HORROR Humph Iago INTR INTREAT itſelf Jugurtha king Longh look manner matter Merc mind moſt muſt NARRA Numidia obſerve occafion orator ourſelves paſſage paſſion perſons Peter Quince PITY pleaſe poſſible Pray preſent PRIDE QUEST Quintilian raiſe reaſon REFUS REMON Roman ſame ſay ſcene Scythians ſee ſeem ſeen ſet ſhall shame ſhe ſhew ſhould Shyl Shylock ſome ſometimes ſpeak ſpeaker ſpeech ſpoken ſtand ſtate ſtill ſuch ſuppoſe thee theſe thing thoſe thou thought TION uſe utter VENERA VEXAT voice whoſe wife WONDER words worſhip
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Σελίδα 115 - The bell strikes One. We take no note of time But from its loss : to give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours. Where are they? With the years beyond the flood.
Σελίδα 92 - Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn, Sure pledge of day, that crown'st the smiling morn With thy bright circlet, praise Him in thy sphere, While day arises, that sweet hour of prime.
Σελίδα 100 - To sigh for ribands if thou art so silly, Mark how they grace Lord Umbra or Sir Billy. Is yellow dirt the passion of thy life ? Look but on Gripus or on Gripus
Σελίδα 44 - Our words flow from us in a smooth continued stream, without those strainings of the voice, motions of the body, and majesty of the hand, which are so much celebrated in the orators of Greece and Rome. We can talk of life and death in cold blood, and keep our temper in a...
Σελίδα 93 - His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and, wave your tops, ye Pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave. Fountains, and ye that warble, as ye flow, Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise.
Σελίδα 240 - With eyes darting fury, and a countenance distorted with cruelty, he orders the helpless victim of his rage to be stripped, and rods to be brought ; accusing him, but without the least shadow of evidence, or even of suspicion, of having come to Sicily as a spy.
Σελίδα 210 - I'll look up; My fault is past. But, O, what form of prayer Can serve my turn? 'Forgive me my foul murder?
Σελίδα 276 - Awaked, should blow them into sevenfold rage And plunge us in the flames? or from above Should intermitted vengeance arm again His red right hand to plague us?
Σελίδα 93 - Of Nature's womb, that in quaternion run Perpetual circle, multiform ; and mix And nourish all things ; let your ceaseless change Vary to our great Maker still new praise.
Σελίδα 145 - O thou that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion, like the god Of this new world, at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads, to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere...