Studies in Elocution: A Wide and Choice Selection of Poetry and Prose for Reading and Recitation; with an Introductory Essay on the Art of Elocution and a Scheme of Vocal Exercises for Public Speakers, and for Use in Colleges, Schools and Elocution ClassesG. Philip & Son, 1908 - 387 pagina's |
Vanuit het boek
Resultaten 1-5 van 47
Pagina 24
... knew the man , were slighted off . Bru . You wronged yourself to write in such a case . Cas . In such a time as this it is not meet That every nice offence should bear his comment . Bru Let me tell you , Cassius , you yourself Are much ...
... knew the man , were slighted off . Bru . You wronged yourself to write in such a case . Cas . In such a time as this it is not meet That every nice offence should bear his comment . Bru Let me tell you , Cassius , you yourself Are much ...
Pagina 35
... knew ye , as well as he that made ye . Why , hear ye , my masters : was it for me to kill the heir - apparent ? Should I turn upon the true prince ? Why , thou knowest I am as valiant as Hercules : but beware in- stinct ; the lion will ...
... knew ye , as well as he that made ye . Why , hear ye , my masters : was it for me to kill the heir - apparent ? Should I turn upon the true prince ? Why , thou knowest I am as valiant as Hercules : but beware in- stinct ; the lion will ...
Pagina 43
... knew courtship too well , for there he fell in love . I have heard him read many lectures against it ; and I thank God , I am not a woman , to be touched with so many giddy offences , as he hath generally taxed their whole sex withal ...
... knew courtship too well , for there he fell in love . I have heard him read many lectures against it ; and I thank God , I am not a woman , to be touched with so many giddy offences , as he hath generally taxed their whole sex withal ...
Pagina 47
... knew me not at first ; he said I was a fishmonger . He is far gone , far gone : and truly in my youth I suffered much extremity for love ; very near this . I'll speak to him again . What do you read , my lord ? Ham . Words , words ...
... knew me not at first ; he said I was a fishmonger . He is far gone , far gone : and truly in my youth I suffered much extremity for love ; very near this . I'll speak to him again . What do you read , my lord ? Ham . Words , words ...
Pagina 64
... knew'st the very bottom of my soul , That almost mightst have coined me into gold , Wouldst thou have practised on me for thy use , — May it be possible , that foreign hire Could out of thee extract one spark of evil That might annoy my ...
... knew'st the very bottom of my soul , That almost mightst have coined me into gold , Wouldst thou have practised on me for thy use , — May it be possible , that foreign hire Could out of thee extract one spark of evil That might annoy my ...
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
Abergavenny Amyas bell Ben-Hur boat Bob-o'-link breath Bregenz Brutus Cæsar chee child cousin dear death door eyes face Falstaff farrier father fear fell fire Florac gentleman George give grace Gregsbury hand hath head hear heard heart heaven Helen honour hope king lady laugh Leicester lifeboat lips live look Lord Macey madam Malaprop Mark Antony master mercy merry Messala morning never night noble o'er once Pickwick poor Poyser pray Prince H printed as Prose Pugstyles Pullemout Queen replied Robin Hood's Bay Rock of Ages round Saint Pancras Sandalphon seemed shouted Shylock sing smile soul speak starry night stood Sussex sweet tell thee there's thing thou thought told Tressilian turned twas Varney Verse printed voice Whitby Widow Jones wife wind Winkle words young
Populaire passages
Pagina 9 - Cowards die many times before their deaths ; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.
Pagina 14 - But yesterday the word of Caesar might Have stood against the world: now lies he there, And none so poor to do him reverence.
Pagina 39 - Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue : but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines.
Pagina 19 - Julius bleed for justice' sake ? What villain touched 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.
Pagina 87 - And say — to-morrow is Saint Crispian : Then will he strip his sleeve, and show his scars, And say, these wounds I had on Crispin's day. Old men forget ; yet all shall be forgot, But he'll remember, with advantages, What feats he did that day : Then shall our names. Familiar in...
Pagina 35 - Cromwell, I did not think to shed a tear In all my miseries ; but thou hast forced me, Out of thy honest truth, to play the woman. Let's dry our eyes : And thus far hear me, Cromwell...
Pagina 40 - ... 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. Now this overdone or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve ; the censure of the which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theatre of others.
Pagina 1 - The quality of mercy is not strain'd, It droppeth, as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath : it is twice bless'd ; It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes : 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown; His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings ; But mercy is above this sceptred sway, It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself;...
Pagina 2 - Though justice be thy plea, consider this, That, in the course of justice, none of us Should see salvation: we do pray for mercy; And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy.
Pagina viii - Their dearest action in the tented field ; And little of this great world can I speak, More than pertains to feats of broil and battle ; And therefore little shall I grace my cause, In speaking for myself : Yet, by your gracious patience...