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... able to control it , from the loudest tone down to little more than a mere whis- per , and be able to properly inflect and modulate it , according to the results he wishes to produce upon his hearers . There are , I think , no small ...
... able to control it , from the loudest tone down to little more than a mere whis- per , and be able to properly inflect and modulate it , according to the results he wishes to produce upon his hearers . There are , I think , no small ...
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... able ones reduced to feebleness by a poor , pithless delivery . I had read of the extraordinary pains Demosthenes and Cicero took to cultivate their manner and become masters of the arts of elocution ; and I knew how , by a masterly and ...
... able ones reduced to feebleness by a poor , pithless delivery . I had read of the extraordinary pains Demosthenes and Cicero took to cultivate their manner and become masters of the arts of elocution ; and I knew how , by a masterly and ...
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... able little work " On the Cultivation of the Speaking Voice , " which I would strongly recommend to any one who wishes to see how closely allied to the music of speech is the music of song . Indeed , it would be difficult to draw the ...
... able little work " On the Cultivation of the Speaking Voice , " which I would strongly recommend to any one who wishes to see how closely allied to the music of speech is the music of song . Indeed , it would be difficult to draw the ...
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... able writer says , under the signature of " Rhetor , " in a letter to the editor of The English Churchman , dated October 3 , 1861 , may be reproduced now with as much truth as then . The laity ( he says towards the close of his letter ) ...
... able writer says , under the signature of " Rhetor , " in a letter to the editor of The English Churchman , dated October 3 , 1861 , may be reproduced now with as much truth as then . The laity ( he says towards the close of his letter ) ...
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... able and judicious teacher , but which , while they existed , were most unpleasing to persons of refined ear and cultivated taste . These various faults in delivery which he had enumerated too often marred the effect of our Church ...
... able and judicious teacher , but which , while they existed , were most unpleasing to persons of refined ear and cultivated taste . These various faults in delivery which he had enumerated too often marred the effect of our Church ...
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Page 147 - All places that the eye of heaven visits, Are to a wise man ports and happy havens : Teach thy necessity to reason thus ; There is no virtue like necessity.
Page 139 - You may as well go stand upon the beach, And bid the main flood bate his usual height ; You may as well use question with the wolf, Why he hath made the ewe bleat for the lamb ; You may as well forbid the mountain pines To wag their high tops, and to make no noise, When they are fretten with the gusts of heaven ; You may as well do any thing most hard, As seek to soften that, — than which what's harder?
Page 151 - There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats ; For I am armed so strong in honesty That they pass by me as the idle wind, Which I respect not.
Page 162 - Julius bleed for justice' sake ? What villain touch'd his body, that did stab, And not for justice ? What, shall one of us, That struck the foremost man of all this world But for supporting robbers, shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes, And sell the mighty space of our large honours For so much trash as may be grasped thus ? — I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, Than such a Roman.
Page 152 - I cannot tell what you and other men Think of this life, but, for my single self, I had as lief not be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself. I was born free as Caesar ; so were you : We both have fed as well, and we can both Endure the winter's cold as well as he...
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Page 149 - And will, no doubt, with reasons answer you. 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...
Page 120 - twixt heaven and earth Is to be made, then shall this hand and seal Witness against us to damnation ! How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds Makes ill deeds done...
Page 153 - 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...
Page 165 - No, sir, she has none. They are meant for us : they can be meant for no other. They are sent over to bind and rivet upon us those chains which the British ministry have been so long forging.