The Standard Speaker & Elocutionist ...Ward, Lock and Company, 1880 - 248 էջ |
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... means study the words , watch the actions , listen to the delivery of the most accomplished , gifted , and successful men you can , in order to see what can be done , and also how to do it . But , having taken all your notes , instead ...
... means study the words , watch the actions , listen to the delivery of the most accomplished , gifted , and successful men you can , in order to see what can be done , and also how to do it . But , having taken all your notes , instead ...
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... means he arrived at such an ex- cellency of character among painters in Italy . ' I spare no pains whatever , even in the ... mean ? art of delivering either written or extemporaneous composition with proper effect , perfect ease , and ...
... means he arrived at such an ex- cellency of character among painters in Italy . ' I spare no pains whatever , even in the ... mean ? art of delivering either written or extemporaneous composition with proper effect , perfect ease , and ...
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... means ? " or " Do I know the proper meaning of each of those words ? " If you have the slightest doubt , get a dictionary and see what it has to say , or even ask some intelligent friend if your impressions about it are right . It may ...
... means ? " or " Do I know the proper meaning of each of those words ? " If you have the slightest doubt , get a dictionary and see what it has to say , or even ask some intelligent friend if your impressions about it are right . It may ...
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... mean- ing , to the exclusion of all other possible meanings . For every cluster of words is like a many - sided crystal , which may be made to throw light from any of its facets , according as one or another of them is presented ...
... mean- ing , to the exclusion of all other possible meanings . For every cluster of words is like a many - sided crystal , which may be made to throw light from any of its facets , according as one or another of them is presented ...
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... mean by this ? Why , nothing more than that the appearance is such as , in our opinion , it should be . This arises from the fact that there is no violent contortion of the features ; no forced attitude ; no special mark of any kind ...
... mean by this ? Why , nothing more than that the appearance is such as , in our opinion , it should be . This arises from the fact that there is no violent contortion of the features ; no forced attitude ; no special mark of any kind ...
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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,