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In such cases, the most charming elocution, the finest fancy, the brightest blaze of genius, and the noblest burst of thoughts, call for louder vengeance, and damn them to lasting infamy and shame. "A greater curse cannot, indeed, befall community, than for princes and men in eminent departments to be under the influence of ill-directed passions.
A boy new to love, like a man new to drink, can recognize from a sip an elation that the jaded taste has forever forfeited. Then in a rich voice with a slightly exaggerated elocution, Conscience began: "Up from the meadows, rich with corn, clear in the cool September morn, The clustered spires of Frederick stand, green-walled by the hills of Maryland."
Such Speakers are the common offspring of Philosophy; and were the nervous, and more striking Orator to keep out of sight, these alone would fully answer our wishes. For they are masters of a brilliant, a florid, a picturesque, and a well-wrought Elocution, which is interwoven with all the beautiful embroidery both of language and sentiment.
He glanced at the rich man to see if he coincided with him, but that gentleman was looking into the street. "We all act in this world," excused Bill; "even you ministers use methods that you have found in elocution to bring your beliefs to bear upon your congregations." Graves did not relish being classed with the squatter's child, but he made no comment upon it. He changed his tactics.
So, if languages are your choice, and mathematical study your aversion, take hold of the odious task with steady and sturdy endeavor, and you will soon convert it into a pleasure. The same is true of grammar, of geography, of history, of composition, of rhetoric, of mental and moral science, of elocution, of every branch.
I should not be the least surprised if she were a dancer or a circus rider, but most likely a dancer. Her whole style smacks very much of the theatre." He evidently did not like the idea. "She is much too young, I am sure; why, she is hardly twenty." "Well," I replied, "there are many things which one can do before one is twenty; dancing and elocution are among them."
It would however be a more correct advice to the aspirant, to say, Be earnest in your application, but let your march be vigilant and slow. There is a doggrel couplet which I have met with in a book on elocution: Learn to speak slow: all other graces Will follow in their proper places. I could wish to recommend a similar process to the student in the course of his reading.
"A celebrated Orator of Rome, who in the polished and persuasive is considered a master in his art." "Yes, yes; but I'll be bound he couldn't teach Elocution." Of course all this raillery was more attractive to the public than Macklin's serious and pedagogic dissertations. The result may be imagined. Foote's oratory was crowded; Macklin's empty. But that was not the worst.
Cox was unanimously pronounced to have been the most splendid display of eloquence heard during the whole convocation. He owed a great deal to his commanding figure, fine voice, and graceful elocution. His memory also was as marvelous as that of Dr. Storrs or Professor Addison Alexander.
And though not defective in any talent, except that of elocution, the abilities which in him were most admirable, and which most contributed to his marvellous success, were the magnanimous resolution of his enterprises, and his peculiar dexterity in discovering the characters, and practising on the weaknesses, of mankind.
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