The Speaker at Home: Chapters on Public Speaking and Reading AloudG. Bell and Sons, 1874 - 170 pages |
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acquired adopted advantage argument articulate attention audience Bishop of Carlisle called CHAPTER Church consonants convey defect Demosthenes difficulty diphthong discourse earnest effect effort elocution eloquence enable entirely excited expression extempore speaking fact fault Fcap feeling fluency George Bell gesture give glottis grammatical habit Harvey Goodwin hear hearers Holy ideas instance labour language larynx lecture less letters listened Lord Lord Brougham manner Massillon meaning memoriter speaking memory mind musical natural never notes once orator oratory ordinary conversation Parish passage pauses perhaps persons practice preacher preaching preparation present probably pronounced public speaking racter reader reading remarks Second edition seems sense sentence sounds speaker speech style subordinate suggested suspension taste tence thing thought tion tone tongue Trinity College truth turally University of Cambridge utterance voice vowels W. F. Hook W. H. Mill whole words writing
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Page 22 - Discretion of speech is more than eloquence; and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words or in good order.
Page 129 - Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast Seal up the ship-boy's eyes, and rock his brains In cradle of the rude imperious surge ; And in the visitation of the winds, "Who take the ruffian billows by the top, Curling their monstrous heads, and hanging them With deaf'ning clamours in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly * death itself awakes...
Page 114 - T is sorrow builds the shining ladder up, Whose golden rounds are our calamities, Whereon our firm feet planting, nearer God The spirit climbs, and hath its eyes unsealed.
Page 130 - And, behold, the angel of the Lord came upon him, and a light shined in the prison; and he smote Peter on the side and raised him up, saying, Arise up quickly. And his chains fell off from his hands.
Page 60 - It is requisite that the language of an heroic poem should be both perspicuous and sublime. In proportion as either of these two qualities are wanting, the language is imperfect. Perspicuity is the first and most necessary qualification ; insomuch that a good-natured reader sometimes overlooks a little slip even in the grammar or syntax, where it is impossible for him to mistake the poet's sense. Of this kind is that passage in Milton, wherein he speaks of satan : -God and his Son except, Created...
Page 85 - ... you may see many a smart rhetorician turning his hat in his hands, moulding it into several different cocks, examining sometimes the lining of it, and sometimes the button, during the whole course of his harangue. A deaf man would think he was cheapening a beaver, when perhaps he is talking of the fate of the British nation.
Page 129 - Over the burning marie, not like those steps On Heaven's azure; and the torrid clime Smote on him sore besides, vaulted with fire. Nathless he so endured, till on the beach Of that inflamed sea he stood, and called His legions — Angel Forms, who lay entranced Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks In Vallombrosa, where the Etrurian shades High over-arched embower...
Page 171 - COMPANION TO THE GREEK TESTAMENT. For the use of Theological Students and the Upper Forms in Schools. By AC BARRETT, MA, Caius College.