The Secret of Successful Speaking and Reading: A Twelve-lesson Course in the Art of Public Speaking for Business and Professional Men and Amateurs |
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... thou pale and common drudge ' Tween man and man : but thou , thou meagre lead , Which rather threaten'st than dost promise aught , Thy plainness moves me more than eloquence , And here choose I ; joy be the consequence . Merchant of ...
... thou pale and common drudge ' Tween man and man : but thou , thou meagre lead , Which rather threaten'st than dost promise aught , Thy plainness moves me more than eloquence , And here choose I ; joy be the consequence . Merchant of ...
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... thou not , fatal vision , sensible To feeling as to sight ? —or art thou but A dagger of the mind , a false creation Proceeding from the heat- oppressed brain ? I see thee yet , in form as palpable As this which now I draw . Thou ...
... thou not , fatal vision , sensible To feeling as to sight ? —or art thou but A dagger of the mind , a false creation Proceeding from the heat- oppressed brain ? I see thee yet , in form as palpable As this which now I draw . Thou ...
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... thou hast forced me , Out of thy honest truth , to play the woman . Let's dry our eyes : and thus far hear me ... thou aim'st at be thy country's , Thy God's , and truth's ; then if thou fall'st , O Cromwell ! Thou fall'st a blessed ...
... thou hast forced me , Out of thy honest truth , to play the woman . Let's dry our eyes : and thus far hear me ... thou aim'st at be thy country's , Thy God's , and truth's ; then if thou fall'st , O Cromwell ! Thou fall'st a blessed ...
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... thou art fled to brutish beasts , And men have lost their reason ! -Bear with me ; My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar , And I must pause , till it come back to me . NINTH LESSON If you have studied the former lessons , 65.
... thou art fled to brutish beasts , And men have lost their reason ! -Bear with me ; My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar , And I must pause , till it come back to me . NINTH LESSON If you have studied the former lessons , 65.
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... thou her maid are far more fair than she ; Be not her maid since she is envious ; Her vestal livery is but sick and green , And none but fools do wear it ; cast it off- It is my lady ; O ! it is my love ; O that she knew she were ...
... thou her maid are far more fair than she ; Be not her maid since she is envious ; Her vestal livery is but sick and green , And none but fools do wear it ; cast it off- It is my lady ; O ! it is my love ; O that she knew she were ...
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action actor Anne Hathaway applying the methods army Art of Expression beholden Brutus Casey Casey's centre L. C. character correct position Demosthenes effect Eliab Elocution emphatical words face the audience facing left FAULTS OF ENUNCIATION foot in advance ghost give Goliath half turn Hamlet hands hear hearers ideas Israelites Julius Caesar king King Hamlet kneel left centre left foot left L lesson Look and Gesture Marc Antony mean memory methods of Voice mind natural orator palms upwards pause Philistine play practice proper Pupil No sir Pupil-A Pupil-By Pupil-It Pupil-One Pupil-The question Quintillian read and speak remedy right and left right centre right foot scene sentence Shakespeare Shochoh side speaking and reading speech spirit stage fright stage or platform stop story success Teacher-In Teacher-The Teacher-What Teacher-Would thee things thou thought tone understand valley of Elah walk WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Write
Popular passages
Page 53 - With a bare bodkin ? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of ? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all...
Page 85 - Angels and ministers of grace defend us! Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damn'd, Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell, Be thy intents wicked or charitable, Thou com'st in such a questionable shape, That I will speak to thee: I'll call thee Hamlet, King, father, royal Dane, O, answer me!
Page 46 - Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee ; Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not: Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's, and truth's...
Page 17 - All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players : They have their exits and their entrances ; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
Page 78 - It must be by his death: and, for my part, I know no personal cause to spurn at him, But for the general. He would be crown'd: How that might change his nature, there's the question: It is the bright day that brings forth the adder; And that craves wary walking.
Page 18 - With spectacles on nose and pouch on side, His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide For his shrunk shank ; and his big manly voice, Turning again toward childish treble, pipes And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all, That ends this strange eventful history, Is second childishness and mere oblivion, Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
Page 95 - Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.
Page 53 - tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep; To sleep — perchance to dream — ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause. There's the respect That makes calamity of so long life ; For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despised love, the law's delay, The insolence of office and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy...
Page 81 - To the very moment that he bade me tell it : Wherein I spoke of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field ; Of hair-breadth 'scapes i' the imminent deadly breach...
Page 33 - So may the outward shows be least themselves ; The world is still deceived with ornament. In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But, being season'd with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil...