Principles of Elocution: Containing Numerous Rules, Observations, and Exercises, on Pronunciation, Pauses, Inflections, Accent, and Emphasis; Also Copious Extracts in Prose and Poetry, Calculated to Assist the Teacher, and to Improve the Pupil in Reading and Recitation

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Oliver & Boyd, 1819 - 436 páginas

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MISCELLANEOUS LESSONS
87
The Interview of Rasselas c with the Hermit
89
On the Improvement of Time
91
The Hill of Science
93
Patience Recommended
95
The Planetary and Terrestrial Worlds
96
The Italian Opera
98
Westminster Abbey
101
On Consistency in Behaviour
103
Interview between an Old Major and a Young Officer
105
On Religion
106
Remarks on the Swiftness of Time
107
On Public Preaching
109
How a Modern Lady of Fashion Disposes of her Time
110
On Pronunciation or Delivery
113
Discontent the common Lot of all Mankind
114
The Funeral of Mr Betterton
117
The Folly of misspending Time
119
The Vision of Sir Isaac Bickerstaff
120
Youth and Old Age
122
The Poor weep unheeded
123
The Story of a Disabled Soldier
124
The Business and Qualifications of a Poet
128
Remarks on some of the best Poets
130
On the Iliad of Homer
133
On the Odyssey of Homer
134
On the Beauties of Virgil
135
On the comparative Merit of Homer and Virgil
136
On Human Grandeur
137
Ethelgar A Saxon Poem
138
Kenrick Translated from the Saxon
141
Hard Words Defended
143
The Difficulty of Conquering Habit
146
On Cruelty to inferior Animals
147
Effects of Sympathy in the Distresses of Others
149
On the Love of Life
150
On the Dignity of Human Nature
151
Fame a commendable Passion
152
The present Life to be considered only as it may conduce to the Happiness of a future one
154
Luxury and Avarice
156
The Impudent and the Absurd
159
On Grieving for the Dead
160
On Remorse
162
On the Increased Love of Life with Age
164
Asem An Eastern Tale
165
HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL EXTRACTS
183
The Siege of Quebec and the Death of General Wolfe
189
The Character of Mary Queen of Scots
195
Maria Part I
201
The Condition of the Wicked
207
On the Works and Attributes of the Almighty
214
The Departed Spirits of the Just are Spectators of
220
On Autumn
227
SPECIMENS OF MODERN ELOQUENCE Page
229
General Wolfe to his Army
230
Speech of Mr Horace Walpole
231
Mr Pitts Reply
232
Lord Lyttletons Speech on the Repeal of the Act called the Jew Bill 234
234
Sir John St Aubins Speech for Repealing the Septennial Act
236
Sir Robert Walpoles Reply
238
Mr Pultneys Speech on the Motion for Reducing the Army
240
Speech of Lord Chatham
243
Speech of the Earl of Chesterfield
246
SPECIMENS OF ANCIENT ELOQUENCE 1 The Speech of a Roman Officer to his Soldiers
251
Speech of Charidemus to Darius
252
The Scythian Ambassadors to Alexander
253
The Beginning of the first Philippic of Demosthenes
256
Hannibal to his Soldiers
259
Scipio to the Roman Army
261
POETRY Rules for Reading Verse
265
On Scanning
268
The Patriot
269
The Soldiers Dream
270
The Female Exile
271
The Battle of Hohenlinden
272
On the Effects of Time and Change
283
On True Dignity
284
Fox and Pitt
285
The first two Verses of Marmion
286
Song from the Lady of the Lake
287
On the Arrival of the British Army in Portugal
288
From the Bride of Abydos
289
On Ancient Greece
290
Sarpedon to Glaucus
291
Alexander the Great
292
Lines written on visiting a Scene in Argyleshire
293
Part of a Poem on the Fear of God
294
A Ladys salutation to her Garden in the Country
295
A Thought on Eternity
296
Davids Trust in God
297
The Day of Judgment
298
The Benedicite Paraphrased
300
The Crow and the other Birds
301
The two Owls and the Sparrow
302
Courage in Poverty
303
Epilogue by Mr Garrick
305
Awful Description of the Deities engaged in Combat
306
Harmony of Expression
307
On Man
308
Universal Order
310
SelfKnowledge
311
Vice and Virtue
312
On the Plain of Marathon
313
On the present State of Athens
314
The Lyre
316
The Battle of Vittoria
318
The Aspect of Greece
320
A Ship Sinking
321
Battle of the Baltic
323
The Fate of Macgregor
325
The Temple of Fame
328
From the Field of Waterloo
337
BLANK VERSE 1 Against Suicide
339
Various Modes of Punishment
340
The Ideas of the Divine Mind c
341
On Slavery
342
That Philosophy which stops at Secondary Causes
343
On the Importance of Time to Man
350
DIALOGUES
356
Coriolanus and Aufidius
363
Alfred and Devon
371
Glenalvon and Norval
378
SPEECHES
385
Alfreds Address to the Saxon Troops
392
The Old English Lion
398
Speech of Rolla
405
proved 343
406
Lady Randolphs Soliloquy
410
Catos Soliloquy on the Immortality of the Soul
411
Hamlets Soliloquy on Death
412
Hamlets Soliloquy on his Mothers Marriage
413
Macbeths Soliloquy before murdering Duncan
414
COMIC EXTRACTS 1 Prologue to the Farce of the Apprentice
415
Lodgings for Single Gentlemen
416
Toby Tosspot
418
The Chameleon
420
The Newcastle Apothecary
421
THE PASSIONS 1 Cheerfulness
425
Raillery
426
Love
427
Pity
428
Hatred
429
Revenge
430
Fear and Terror
431
Remorse
432
Surprise
433
Pride
434
Boasting
435
Malice
436

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Página 406 - Romans, countrymen, and lovers! hear me for my cause ; and be silent that you may hear : believe me for mine honour; and have respect to mine honour, that you may believe: censure me in your wisdom; and awake your senses that you may the better judge. If there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of Caesar's, to him I say, that Brutus' love to Caesar was no less than his.
Página 413 - With a bare bodkin ? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of ? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all...
Página 393 - My story being done, She gave me for my pains a world of sighs : She swore, — in faith, 'twas strange, 'twas passing strange ; 'Twas pitiful, 'twas wondrous pitiful: She wish'd she had not heard it ; yet she wish'd That heaven had made her such a man...
Página 395 - Rome, thou hast lost the breed of noble bloods! When went there by an age, since the great flood, But it was fam'd with more than with one man?
Página 308 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labors, and the words move slow: Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Página 423 - Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile, Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court? Here feel we but the penalty of Adam, — The seasons...
Página 385 - Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead. In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility: But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger; Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood.
Página 412 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Página 407 - As Caesar loved me, I weep for him; as he was fortunate, I rejoice at it; as he was valiant, I honour him; but, as he was ambitious, I slew him.
Página 129 - The business of a poet," said Imlac, "is to examine, not the individual, but the species ; to remark general properties and large appearances ; he does not number the streaks of the tulip, or describe the different shades in the verdure of the forest.

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