Chironomia; or, A treatise on rhetorical deliveryT. Cadell and W. Davies, 1806 - 583 pages |
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... EXPRESSION OF HIS GRATITUDE FOR THE EARLY AND CONTINUED PATRONAGE OF HIS LORDSHIP'S FAMILY , BY HIS LORDSHIP'S FORMER PRECEPTOR , FAITHFUL FRIEND , AND -MUCH OBLIGED HUMBLE SERVANT , Woodville , near Dublin , 5th May , 1806 . THE AUTHOR ...
... EXPRESSION OF HIS GRATITUDE FOR THE EARLY AND CONTINUED PATRONAGE OF HIS LORDSHIP'S FAMILY , BY HIS LORDSHIP'S FORMER PRECEPTOR , FAITHFUL FRIEND , AND -MUCH OBLIGED HUMBLE SERVANT , Woodville , near Dublin , 5th May , 1806 . THE AUTHOR ...
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... expression of the countenance fine ; she holds her robe with the right hand , and with the left points upwards . A line from an epigram of Ausonius , and a couple also from the Greek , whence he borrowed his , were to have been placed ...
... expression of the countenance fine ; she holds her robe with the right hand , and with the left points upwards . A line from an epigram of Ausonius , and a couple also from the Greek , whence he borrowed his , were to have been placed ...
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... expression ; the speakers of our islands , as is evinced by fact , cannot with advantage de pend solely on nature . But though in our temperate climate the people are less disposed to vivacity of manner , and are not easily excited ...
... expression ; the speakers of our islands , as is evinced by fact , cannot with advantage de pend solely on nature . But though in our temperate climate the people are less disposed to vivacity of manner , and are not easily excited ...
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... expression of the countenance , and the gesture of the head , the body , and the limbs , constitute the external part of oratory ; and relate to the personal talents and efforts of the public speaker , in like manner as the other di ...
... expression of the countenance , and the gesture of the head , the body , and the limbs , constitute the external part of oratory ; and relate to the personal talents and efforts of the public speaker , in like manner as the other di ...
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Gilbert Austin. expression of the countenance . The above enumeration of the external parts of oratory appears to be sanctioned by Quintilian , in some places he makes three divisions , in others two . We have also his authority , and ...
Gilbert Austin. expression of the countenance . The above enumeration of the external parts of oratory appears to be sanctioned by Quintilian , in some places he makes three divisions , in others two . We have also his authority , and ...
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Page 483 - But I will punish home: No, I will weep no more. In such a night To shut me out! Pour on; I will endure. In such a night as this! O Regan, Goneril! Your old kind father, whose frank heart gave all O, that way madness lies; let me shun that; No more of that.
Page 281 - Pity it is, that the momentary beauties flowing from an harmonious elocution, cannot like those of poetry be their own record! That the animated graces of the player can live no longer than the instant breath and motion that presents them; or at best can but faintly glimmer through the memory, or imperfect attestation of a few surviving spectators.
Page 80 - Why, what should be the fear ? I do not set my life at a pin's fee ; And for my soul, what can it do to that, Being a thing immortal as itself ? It waves me forth again : I'll follow it.
Page 116 - The light of the body is the eye : therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when thine eye is evil, thy body also is full of darkness. 35 Take heed therefore, that the light which is in thee be not darkness.
Page 518 - The applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes...
Page 182 - Recherches d'Antiquite, gives us a curious story of the celebrated physiognomist Campanella. This man, it seems, had not only made very accurate observations on human faces, but was very expert in mimicking such as were any way remarkable. When he had a mind to penetrate into the inclinations...
Page 318 - Tum, pietate gravem ac meritis si forte virum quem Conspexere, silent, arrectisque auribus adstant ; Ille regit dictis animos, et pectora mulcet...
Page 53 - Oh, against all rule, my Lord, — most ungrammatically! betwixt the substantive and the adjective, which should agree together in number, case, and gender, he made a breach thus, — stopping, as if the point wanted settling; — and...
Page 38 - In just articulation the words are not to be hurried over, nor precipitated syllable over syllable: nor, as it were, melted together into a mass of confusion : they should be neither abridged, nor prolonged, nor swallowed, nor forced, and, (if I may so express it,) shot from the mouth; they should not be trailed, nor drawled...
Page 206 - ... haec studia adolescentiam alunt, senectutem oblectant, secundas res ornant, adversis perfugium ac solatium praebent, 'delectant domi, non impediunt foris, pernoctant nobiscum, peregrinantur, rusticantur.