The Standard Speaker & Elocutionist ...Ward, Lock and Company, 1880 - 248 էջ |
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Էջ 38
... face has its own eloquence of plea- sure and of grief . What volumes can be condensed into a shrug of the shoulders , and what mournful mischief that same shrug has wrought ! Since , then , gesture and posture can speak powerfully , we ...
... face has its own eloquence of plea- sure and of grief . What volumes can be condensed into a shrug of the shoulders , and what mournful mischief that same shrug has wrought ! Since , then , gesture and posture can speak powerfully , we ...
Էջ 45
... face of much power of expression , besides marring the tone of the voice . Seek , therefore , to give it full scope , for , as Herder says , " The neck discovers not that which is in the interior of man , but that which he wishes to ...
... face of much power of expression , besides marring the tone of the voice . Seek , therefore , to give it full scope , for , as Herder says , " The neck discovers not that which is in the interior of man , but that which he wishes to ...
Էջ 47
... FACE . The hanging down of the head denotes shame or grief ; the holding of it up , pride or courage . To nod forward implies assent ; to move it from side to side , dissent ; to toss it back- wards , contemptuous and impatient dissent ...
... FACE . The hanging down of the head denotes shame or grief ; the holding of it up , pride or courage . To nod forward implies assent ; to move it from side to side , dissent ; to toss it back- wards , contemptuous and impatient dissent ...
Էջ 58
... face is turned away from that side toward which the hands are thrown out , the eyes looking angrily and obliquely the same way the hands are directed ; the eyebrows are contracted , the upper lip disdainfully drawn up , and the teeth ...
... face is turned away from that side toward which the hands are thrown out , the eyes looking angrily and obliquely the same way the hands are directed ; the eyebrows are contracted , the upper lip disdainfully drawn up , and the teeth ...
Էջ 65
... face from the beholders , covers it with blushes , hangs the head , casts down the eyes , draws down and contracts the eyebrows . It either strikes the person dumb , or , if he attempts to say any thing in his own defence , causes his ...
... face from the beholders , covers it with blushes , hangs the head , casts down the eyes , draws down and contracts the eyebrows . It either strikes the person dumb , or , if he attempts to say any thing in his own defence , causes his ...
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Էջ 60 - For I can raise no money by vile means: By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring From the hard hands of peasants their' vile trash By any indirection.
Էջ 82 - Dark-heaving; boundless, endless, and sublime — The image of Eternity — the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Էջ 186 - Caesar carelessly but nod on him. He had a fever when he was in Spain, And when the fit was on him, I did mark How he did shake...
Էջ 152 - God ! sing, ye meadow-streams, with gladsome voice! Ye pine-groves, with your soft and soul-like sounds ! And they, too, have a voice, yon piles of snow, And in their perilous fall, shall thunder, God...
Էջ 65 - I'll leave you till night; you are welcome to Elsinore. Ros. Good my lord ! [Exeunt Rosencrantz and Giiildenstern. Ham. Ay, so, God be wi' ye :—Now I am alone. 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...
Էջ 57 - WE watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life . Kept heaving to and fro. So silently we...
Էջ 151 - Risest from forth thy silent sea of pines, How silently ! Around thee and above Deep is the air and dark, substantial, black, An ebon mass : methinks thou piercest it As with a wedge ! But when I look again, It is thine own calm home, thy crystal shrine, Thy habitation from eternity ' 0 dread and silent Mount ! I gazed upon thee Till thou, still present to the bodily sense, Didst vanish from my thought : entranced in prayer 1 worshipped the Invisible alone.
Էջ 72 - The angels, not half so happy in heaven, Went envying her and me; Yes! that was the reason (as all men know, In this kingdom by the sea) That the wind came out of the cloud by night, Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.
Էջ 82 - O, young Lochinvar is come out of the west, Through all the wide Border his steed was the best ; And save his good broad-sword he weapon had none, He rode all unarmed, and he rode all alone. So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war, There never was knight like the young Lochinvar.
Էջ 21 - One touch to her hand, and one word in her ear. When they reached the hall door, and the charger stood near; So light to the croupe the fair lady he swung, So light to the saddle before her he sprung! "She is won! we are gone, over bank, bush, and scaur: They'll have fleet steeds that follow,