 | Books - 1763 - 556 pages
...inftrument, which in its very conftrudtion was incapable of accomplifhing the work they were about. In Ihort, that fome of our greateft men have been trying to...which can only be performed by the tongue , to produce effe&s by the dead letter, which can never be produced but by the living voice, with its accompaniments.... | |
 | Thomas Sheridan - Elocution - 1803 - 222 pages
...that they have all ufed an inftrument, which in its very conftrudtion, ,was incapable of accomplishing the work they were about. In fhort, that fome of our...which can only be performed by the tongue ; to produce effefts by the dead letter, which can never be produced but by the living voice, with its accompaniments.... | |
 | Jay Fliegelman - History - 1993 - 296 pages
...failed in social reform was "their extravagant idea entertained of the power of writing": Our greatest men have been trying to do that with the pen, which...with its accompaniments. This is no longer a mere assertion; it is no longer problematical. It has been demonstrated to the entire satisfaction of some... | |
 | Thomas Conley - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1994 - 336 pages
...more to rhetoric than the mere communication of abstract ideas, he argues, and "some of our greatest men have been trying to do that with the pen, which...but by the living voice, with its accompaniments" (Course, p. xii). The lectures that follow define elocution as "the just and graceful management of... | |
 | Lucy Newlyn - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 432 pages
...Criticism, given at the Dissenting academy of Warrington, were published in 1777. 'Some of our greatest men have been trying to do that with the pen, which...never be produced but by the living voice, with its accompaniments'.6 These words are taken from the Preface to Sheridan's Iectures on Elocution, the single... | |
 | Adam Fox, Daniel Woolf - History - 2002 - 300 pages
...Course of Lectures on Elocution (1762), Sheridan complained that 'some of our greatest men have been 246 trying to do that with the pen, which can only be...never be produced but by the living voice, with its accompaniments'.33 Sheridan's goal was to promote a more passionate oratory - the kind of persuasive... | |
 | Lucy Newlyn - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 436 pages
...Crisicism, given at the Dissenting academy of Warrington, were published in i777. 'Some of our greatest men have been trying to do that with the pen, which...performed by the tongue; to produce effects by the dead lerter, which can never be produced but by the living voice, with its accompaniments'. These words... | |
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In fhort that fome of our greateft men have been trying to do that with the pen, which can only be performed by the tongue ; to produce effects by the dead letter, which can never be produced but by the living voice, with its accompaniments. 