The Vestibule of Eloquence: Original Articles Oratorical and Poetical, Intended as Exercises in Recitation, at the Institution, Bedford Place, Russell Squareauthor, 1810 - 32 ページ |
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25 Guineas accomplishments Æneid Albion ancient ANTISTROPHE attainable attend blest Book of Exercises bosom brave breast breath brow CLASS Course of Twelve COURSES OF LESSONS cultivation Daily Lessons delivery Discourse Edwin effusions Elocution Elocutionary Elocutionist Eloquence emulation energy English English Language enthusiasm entrance Epaminondas EPODE evěry fame feelings foreign Gentlemen glory glows grace hand harmony heart heroic History of Herodotus hope Impediments impressive Institution instruction intellectual JOHN THELWALL Julius Cæsar kindling Lacedemon language Liverpool Martial ments mind mortal vision mourn Muse Music nations nature o'er Oration Oratory Organs paid passion patriotic Pindus poniard Practice of Elocution praise pride principles Pupils racter rage rapture realm resistless Reynier scene Science shout smiling band song soul Speech sublime succeeding Course synonymies thee Thelwall thou thoughts thro throng Thunder tion Tradeful Rivers triumph Twelve Lessons Twenty-four Lessons valour virtue voice youth
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71 ページ - SPIRIT ! that rid'st in the \vhirlwind and storm, Whose voice in the thunder is fear'd, — If ever from man, the poor indigent worm, The prayer of affliction was heard, — If black man, as white, is the work of thy hand — (And who could create him but Thee ?) Ah give thy command, — Let it spread thro...
41 ページ - With shame and desperation, gnash'd his teeth To see thee rend the pageants of his throne; And at the lightning of thy lifted spear Crouch'd like a slave. Bring all thy martial spoils, Thy palms, thy laurels, thy triumphal songs, Thy smiling band of arts, thy godlike sires Of civil wisdom, thy heroic youth Warm from the schools of glory.
2 ページ - ... few ; and many are the ages, and many are the countries, in which these accomplishments have never once appeared. Generations have succeeded to generations, and centuries have rolled after centuries, during which, the intellectual desert has not exhibited even one solitary specimen of the stately growth, and flourishing expansion of oratorical genius.
1 ページ - ... which they should naturally be accompanied. Elocution, therefore, in its more ample and liberal signification, is not confined to the mere exercise of the organs of speech. It embraces the whole theory and practice of the exterior demonstration of the inward workings of the mind. To concentrate what has been said by an allegorical recapitulation...
73 ページ - If then, thou but deign'dst, with a pitying eye, Thy poor shackled creature to see ; O thy mercy apply Afric's sorrows to dry, And bid the poor Negro be free ! If here, as I faint in the vertical sun, And the scourge goads me on to my toil, — No hope faintly soothing, when labour is done, Of one joy my lorn heart to beguile ; — If thou view'st me, Great Spirit! as one thou hast made, And my fate as dependant on thee...
2 ページ - The high and splendid accomplishments of oratory, even in the most favored age and the most favored countries, have been attained by few ; and many are the ages, and many are the countries, in which these accomplishments have never once appeared. Generations have succeeded to generations, and centuries have rolled after centuries, during which, the intellectual desert...
1 ページ - Elocution is the art, or the act of so delivering our own thoughts and sentiments, or the thoughts and sentiments of others, as not only to convey to those around us (with precision, force, and harmony,) the full purport and meaning of the words and sentences in which these thoughts are clothed ; but also to excite and...
72 ページ - If then, the wild anguish that pierced thro' my heart, Was seen in its horrors by thee, O ease my long smart, And thy sanction impart, That Afric, at last, may be free !— If while in the Slave Ship, with many a groan, I wept o'er my sufferings in vain; While hundreds around me, reply'd to my moan, And the clanking of many a chain ;— If then, thou but deign'dst, with a pitying eye, Thy poor shackled creature to see; O thy mercy apply Afric's sorrows to dry, And bid the poor Negro be free ! If...
2 ページ - ... undoubtedly, in part, to be accounted for, from the difficulty of the attainment. The palm of oratorical perfection is only to be grasped — it is, in reality, only to be desired — by aspiring souls, and intellects of unusual energy. It requires a persevering toil which few...
1 ページ - To concentrate what has been said by an allegorical recapitulation—Eloquence may be considered as the soul, or animating principle of discourse ; and is dependent on intellectual energy and intellectual attainments. Elocution is the embodying form, or representative power: dependent on exterior accomplishments, and on the cultivation of the organs.