An Essay on ConversationMacmillan, 1927 - 75 sider |
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Side 40
... relate himself to a statue or picture than to suffer his thoughts to pass in smother . " Where all can talk across the table and be heard , ceremoniousness will not with- stand the opportunity for sociability , the reticent must yield ...
... relate himself to a statue or picture than to suffer his thoughts to pass in smother . " Where all can talk across the table and be heard , ceremoniousness will not with- stand the opportunity for sociability , the reticent must yield ...
Side 41
... relates to un- pleasant or unpromising subjects , or when a monologist is attempting to ply his bore- some avocation or talk drifts aimlessly back and forth in a stagnant pool of insipidity , such a hostess may give it direction . She ...
... relates to un- pleasant or unpromising subjects , or when a monologist is attempting to ply his bore- some avocation or talk drifts aimlessly back and forth in a stagnant pool of insipidity , such a hostess may give it direction . She ...
Side 43
... relate an anecdote having human appeal , or a humor- ous point . It is curious what kind of inter- locution will start the wheels in motion . Even exaggerated , startling and grotesque intervention is often successful . I remember a ...
... relate an anecdote having human appeal , or a humor- ous point . It is curious what kind of inter- locution will start the wheels in motion . Even exaggerated , startling and grotesque intervention is often successful . I remember a ...
Side 52
... relate to art , music and wines , as well as to literature and history . In some circles before the Vol- stead days , a tiresome pedant was the man who discoursed on wines . Without facti- tious aids he knew one fine vintage from ...
... relate to art , music and wines , as well as to literature and history . In some circles before the Vol- stead days , a tiresome pedant was the man who discoursed on wines . Without facti- tious aids he knew one fine vintage from ...
Side 70
... relate an anecdote about himself after he had retired from the Presidency , where he was subjected to much inconvenience by his endeavor to attend a reception at the Lincoln Club of a provincial city . Sup- posing the club was in New ...
... relate an anecdote about himself after he had retired from the Presidency , where he was subjected to much inconvenience by his endeavor to attend a reception at the Lincoln Club of a provincial city . Sup- posing the club was in New ...
Almindelige termer og sætninger
Addison adds agreeable Ameri American amiable amusing anecdote art of conversation artistic attention become Benson bore Boswell breeding Century cern character charm Chesterfield Choate cities colloquial art commonplace companion conversational art conversationalist counsel of perfection culture delight described dinner company embellish Emerson enjoyment entertainment Epictetus epigrams ESSAY ON CONVERSATION Evarts evoke exchange expression feeling friends gift golf golfer good-humored greatest hear hostess human humor ical ideal insipid instinct intel intellectual intelligence intercourse interesting invited Johnson Joseph H journey kind knowledge listen ment monologist Montaigne nation nature Nero occa oral pany pedant pedantry perfect perhaps person pertinent Plato polite produce Quincey reign Salon Samuel Johnson says seating serious subjects silent sion social discourse social occasion society sons of heaven speak speech spirit stimulated sympathies symposiarch tact talk taste things thought tion tiresome versation vivacity weary witty women words
Populære passager
Side 26 - Better to hunt in fields for health unbought Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise for cure on exercise depend : God never made His work for man to mend.
Side 40 - ... certain it is that whosoever hath his mind fraught with many thoughts, his wits and understanding do clarify and break up in the communicating and discoursing with another:, he tosseth his thoughts more easily; he marshalleth them more orderly; he seeth how they look when they are turned into words; finally, he waxeth wiser than himself, and that more by an hour's discourse than by a day's meditation.
Side 26 - I cannot see the wit of walking and talking at the same time. When I am in the country, I wish to vegetate like the country. I am not for criticising hedgerows and black cattle.
Side 46 - He has his eyes on all his company ; he is tender towards the bashful, gentle towards the distant, and merciful towards the absurd; he can recollect to whom he is speaking; he guards against unseasonable allusions or topics which may irritate ; he is seldom prominent in conversation, and never wearisome.
Side 57 - ... finds a hint that puts him in mind of another story, which he promises to tell you when this is done ; comes back regularly to his subject, cannot readily call to mind some person's name, holding his head, complains of his memory; the whole company all this while in suspense; at length says, it is no matter, and so goes on. And, to crown the business, it perhaps proves at last a story the company has heard fifty times before; or, at best, some insipid adventure of the relater.
Side 45 - There is no society or conversation to be kept up in the world without good-nature, or something which must bear its appearance, and supply its place. For this reason, mankind have been forced to invent a kind of artificial humanity, which is what we express by the word good-breeding.
Side 45 - For this reason mankind have been forced to invent a kind of artificial humanity, which is what we express by the word good-breeding. For if we examine thoroughly the idea of what we call so, we shall find it to be nothing else but an imitation and mimickry of good-nature, or in other terms, affability, complaisance and easiness of temper reduced into an art.
Side 15 - Immediately prescribe some character and some form to yourself, which you shall observe both when you are alone and when you meet °" with men. And let silence be the general rule, or let only what is necessary be said, and in few words. And rarely, and when the occasion calls, we shall say something ; but about none of the common subjects, not about gladiators, nor horseraces, nor about athletes, nor about eating or drinking, which are the usual subjects; and especially not about men, as blaming...
Side 58 - Of all the bores whom man in his folly hesitates to hang, and heaven in its mysterious wisdom suffers to propagate their species, the most insufferable is the teller of "good stories...
Side 54 - What is a greater pedant than a mere man of the town ? Bar him the play-houses, a catalogue of the reigning beauties, and an account of a few fashionable distempers that have befallen him, and you strike him dumb.