The Cyclopedia of Oratory: A Handbook of Authorities on Oratory as an Art & of Celebrated Passages from the Best Orations ...W. V. Byars Boobs-Merrill Company, 1901 - 557 páginas |
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... given due weight , it has not been allowed to distract attention from the central fact of oratory , - that success depends on the strength of a gov- erning idea firmly grasped and coherently expressed . It is in the art of coherent ...
... given due weight , it has not been allowed to distract attention from the central fact of oratory , - that success depends on the strength of a gov- erning idea firmly grasped and coherently expressed . It is in the art of coherent ...
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... given in continuity , but in scat- tered portions ; for one must go over the actions out of which the speech arises : for a speech is a kind of compound , having one portion , indeed , independent of art , [ since the speaker is not at ...
... given in continuity , but in scat- tered portions ; for one must go over the actions out of which the speech arises : for a speech is a kind of compound , having one portion , indeed , independent of art , [ since the speaker is not at ...
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... given by that philosopher . Having accepted the invitation , he heard him fluently harangue for some hours on the duties of a commander and the whole art of war . When the audience , in their unbounded admiration of the speaker ...
... given by that philosopher . Having accepted the invitation , he heard him fluently harangue for some hours on the duties of a commander and the whole art of war . When the audience , in their unbounded admiration of the speaker ...
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... given due attention to these things , I consider , last of all , that which occupies the first place , viz . , what exordium I should make use of ; for if ever I have attempted to compose this first , nothing has occurred to me but what ...
... given due attention to these things , I consider , last of all , that which occupies the first place , viz . , what exordium I should make use of ; for if ever I have attempted to compose this first , nothing has occurred to me but what ...
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... given in ordinary language , and the occurrences related in regular and uninter- rupted succession . But when the narration should be introduced , and when omitted , is for our consideration . In matters of notoriety , and where there ...
... given in ordinary language , and the occurrences related in regular and uninter- rupted succession . But when the narration should be introduced , and when omitted , is for our consideration . In matters of notoriety , and where there ...
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adversary American ancient appear arguments Aristotle Athens audience beauty blood Cæsar called Catiline cause character Cicero death deliberative Demosthenes discourse earth effect eloquence England enthymemes essay excellent excite exordium expression eyes faculty feeling force genius give glory grace Greece Greek hath hearer heart heaven honor Hudibras human Hyperides ideas Isocrates judge judgment Julius Cæsar justice kind language learned liberty live Lord Lysias Macbeth manner matter means Measure for Measure memory ment Merchant of Venice metaphor mind moral narration nation nature never object opinion orator oratory Othello Paradise Lost passions Pericles peroration person persuasion pleading poet poetry praise principles proem proof Quintilian reason respect rhetoric Rome rules sense sentence Shakespeare soul speak speaker speech spirit style sublime things thou thought tion true truth utterance virtue voice whole words
Pasajes populares
Página 461 - Liberty first, and Union afterwards, — but everywhere, spread all over in characters of living light, blazing on all its ample folds, as they float over the sea and over the land, and in every wind under the whole heavens, that other sentiment, dear to every true American heart, — Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable," God grant it, — God grant it!
Página 474 - 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...
Página 493 - Farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness ! This is the state of man ; to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing...
Página 515 - I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres, Thy knotted and combined locks to part And each particular hair to stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine : But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood.
Página 478 - O, there be players that I have seen play, and heard others praise, and that highly, not to speak it profanely, that neither having the accent of Christians nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Página 524 - Know then thyself, presume not God to scan, The proper study of mankind is man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise, and rudely great: With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, With too much weakness for the Stoic's pride, He hangs between; in doubt to act, or rest; In doubt to deem himself a God, or beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer; Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err...
Página 419 - A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this Government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved, I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push...
Página 536 - From wandering on a foreign strand ? If such there breathe, go mark him well : For him no minstrel raptures swell ; High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim ; Despite those titles, power and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonored and unsung.
Página 510 - Fetch me that flower ; the herb I show'd thee once : The juice of it on sleeping eyelids laid Will make or man or woman madly dote Upon the next live creature that it sees.
Página 408 - But there is no peace! The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field ! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? ' Forbid it, Almighty God ! I know not what course others may take; but as for me — give me liberty, or give me death!