The Art of Speech ...D. Appleton, 1881 |
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... literature . The field remaining to be discussed under " THE ART OF SPEECH , " includes Studies in Elocution and Psychology . A volume , covering these subjects , uniform with I. and II . , will in due time be prepared for the ...
... literature . The field remaining to be discussed under " THE ART OF SPEECH , " includes Studies in Elocution and Psychology . A volume , covering these subjects , uniform with I. and II . , will in due time be prepared for the ...
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... of twenty of the most eventful years of Athenian history . Mr. Webster , speaking of his own reply to Hayne , says : " All that I had ever read , or thought , or acted in literature , in history , in law , in ORATION ON THE CROWN . 33.
... of twenty of the most eventful years of Athenian history . Mr. Webster , speaking of his own reply to Hayne , says : " All that I had ever read , or thought , or acted in literature , in history , in law , in ORATION ON THE CROWN . 33.
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Luther Tracy Townsend. in literature , in history , in law , in politics , seemed to unroll before me in glowing panorama , and then it was easy , if I wanted a thunderbolt , to reach out and take it as it went smoking by . " Thus it ...
Luther Tracy Townsend. in literature , in history , in law , in politics , seemed to unroll before me in glowing panorama , and then it was easy , if I wanted a thunderbolt , to reach out and take it as it went smoking by . " Thus it ...
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... Literature constantly aims at the brilliant and startling , rather than the tender and pathetic . Pathos is also at dis- count , and even in disrepute , because often unnat- urally forced and unskilfully used . This disreputable type is ...
... Literature constantly aims at the brilliant and startling , rather than the tender and pathetic . Pathos is also at dis- count , and even in disrepute , because often unnat- urally forced and unskilfully used . This disreputable type is ...
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... literature , and , with some people , earnest conversation , result in intellectual unction . When it can be done , the best way for the orator to secure this quality , and introduce it into his speech , is for him to hold his mind in ...
... literature , and , with some people , earnest conversation , result in intellectual unction . When it can be done , the best way for the orator to secure this quality , and introduce it into his speech , is for him to hold his mind in ...
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Acts Æschines appear Athenian Athens audience auditors Brougham Burke cause character Charles James Fox Charles Sumner Chatham Cicero common conclusion conviction Ctesiphon Curran debate Demosthenes discourse earnestness elocutionary eloquence Eschines examples expression facts feel Fénelon figure force form of argument genius Greek hearers heart Hence honor ideal orator illustration impression induction inference instance John John ix judgment knowledge language likewise literature logic Lord Lord Brougham Lord Chatham Luke Macaulay master Matt ment method mind nature never NOTE object once opponent oratory passion Patrick Henry perfect Pericles person persuade Philip Phillips Brooks Plutarch popular practice preacher preaching present proposition pulpit orator Quintilian reasoning remarked replied rhetorical Rufus Choate says secular self-possession sentence sermon soul speak speaker speech strong student style success syllogism things thought tion true truth utter viii voice Webster words writers xxvi
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Página 160 - I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts : I am no orator, as Brutus is ; But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man, That love my friend ; and that they know full well That gave me public leave to speak of him : For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech, To stir men's blood...
Página 132 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man; and, therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend...
Página 147 - While the Union lasts, we have high, exciting, gratifying prospects spread out before us, — for us and our children. Beyond that I seek not to penetrate the veil. God grant that in my day, at least, that curtain may not rise!
Página 147 - States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood! Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the Republic, now known and honored throughout the earth, still full high advanced, its arms and trophies streaming in their original lustre, not a stripe erased or polluted, nor a single star obscured, bearing for its motto no such miserable interrogatory as 'What is all this worth?
Página 147 - When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood.
Página 160 - And bid them speak for me: but were I Brutus, And Brutus Antony, there were an Antony Would ruffle up your spirits and put a tongue In every wound of Caesar that should move The stones of Rome to rise and mutiny.
Página 247 - Treason, treason!" echoed from every part of the house. Henry faltered not for an instant, but, taking a loftier attitude, and fixing on the speaker an eye of fire, he added " may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it...
Página 157 - The blood and spirits of Le Fevre, which were waxing cold and slow within him, and were retreating to their last citadel, the heart, — rallied back, — the film forsook his eyes for a moment ; — he looked up wishfully in my uncle Toby's face ; — then cast a look upon his boy ; — and that ligament, fine as it was, — was never broken. — Nature instantly ebbed again ; — the film returned to its place ; — the pulse fluttered, — stopped, — went on, — throbbed, — stopped again,...
Página 149 - We shall be forced ultimately to retract ; let us retract while we can, not when we must. I say we must necessarily undo these violent oppressive acts ; they must be repealed — you will repeal them ; I pledge myself for it, that you will in the end repeal them ; I stake my reputation on it — I will consent to be taken for an idiot, if they are not finally repealed.
Página 144 - Is it that insidious smile with which our petition has been lately received? Trust it not, sir: it will prove a snare to your feet. Suffer not yourselves to be betrayed with a kiss.