Lessons in Elocution : Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse for the Improvement of Youth in Reading and Speaking |
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... With eyes severe , and beard of formal cut ; Full of wise saws and modern instances ; And so he plays his part . The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon ; With Spectacles on nose , and pouch on side ; His youthful ...
... With eyes severe , and beard of formal cut ; Full of wise saws and modern instances ; And so he plays his part . The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon ; With Spectacles on nose , and pouch on side ; His youthful ...
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Page 366 - 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.
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Page 249 - Air, and ye Elements, the eldest birth Of Nature's womb, that in quaternion run Perpetual circle, multiform ; and mix And nourish all things ; let your ceaseless change Vary to our Great Maker still new praise.
Page 367 - I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke, But here I am to speak what I do know. You all did love him once, not without cause: What cause withholds you then to mourn for him? O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason. Bear with me; My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar, And I must pause till it come back to me.
Page 342 - Why, well : Never so truly happy, my good Cromwell. I know myself now ; and I feel within me A peace above all earthly dignities, A still and quiet conscience.
Page 351 - Suit the action to the word, the word to the action: with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature; for any thing so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first, and now, was, and is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time, his form, and pressure.
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| Title | Lessons in Elocution : Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse for the Improvement of Youth in Reading and Speaking |
| Author | William Scott |
| Publisher | Hill and Moore, 1820 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 17 May 2007 |
| Length | 384 pages |
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