A Practical Manual of Elocution: Embracing Voice and Gesture : Designed for Schools, Academies and Colleges, as Well as for Private LearnersSorin & Ball, 1845 - 331 pagini |
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Pagina 3
... appears to be a scholar- adapted to instruction in colleges and aca - like production ; is remarkably neat and demies , and of great service to private accurate in its typography ; and though learners . The pages on pulpit elocution ...
... appears to be a scholar- adapted to instruction in colleges and aca - like production ; is remarkably neat and demies , and of great service to private accurate in its typography ; and though learners . The pages on pulpit elocution ...
Pagina 6
... appears to me exceedingly well adapted to the hour , I might say of the age , so far as we of this country are concerned . It must greatly abridge the labor of the Teacher , and greatly help the understand- ing , while it engages the ...
... appears to me exceedingly well adapted to the hour , I might say of the age , so far as we of this country are concerned . It must greatly abridge the labor of the Teacher , and greatly help the understand- ing , while it engages the ...
Pagina vii
... this work merely as a matter of convenience , being both a short and expres . sive designation of one of the most important functions of the speaking voice . To the intelligent and observing , the remark will appear PREFACE . vii.
... this work merely as a matter of convenience , being both a short and expres . sive designation of one of the most important functions of the speaking voice . To the intelligent and observing , the remark will appear PREFACE . vii.
Pagina viii
... appear trite , that in our age , and particularly in our country , a good delivery is one of the most important ... appears to me the best system of training for the voice that can be de- vised . — one that will best develop all its ...
... appear trite , that in our age , and particularly in our country , a good delivery is one of the most important ... appears to me the best system of training for the voice that can be de- vised . — one that will best develop all its ...
Pagina 32
... appear something ludi- crous in the attempt , let him remember that it is only a matter of habit , and that a little familiarity will make these sounds as familiar as are the names now usually but erro- neously given to our alphabetic ...
... appear something ludi- crous in the attempt , let him remember that it is only a matter of habit , and that a little familiarity will make these sounds as familiar as are the names now usually but erro- neously given to our alphabetic ...
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Pagina 144 - And let those that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them : for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the mean time, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered: that's villainous; and . shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.
Pagina 174 - Caesar carelessly but nod on him. He had a fever when he was in Spain ; And, when the fit was on him, I did mark How he did shake...
Pagina 131 - The gay will laugh When thou art gone, the solemn brood of care Plod on, and each one, as before, will chase His favorite phantom ; yet all these shall leave Their mirth and their employments, and shall come And make their bed with thee.
Pagina 110 - Perhaps thou gavest me, though unfelt, a kiss ; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss ; Ah, that maternal smile, it answers yes ! I heard the bell tolled on thy burial day, I saw the hearse that bore thee slow away, And, turning from my nursery window, drew A long, long sigh, and wept a last adieu ! But was it such ? It was.
Pagina 129 - HAIL, holy Light, offspring of Heaven first-born! Or of the Eternal coeternal beam May I express thee unblamed? since God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity — dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate!
Pagina 165 - Julius bleed for justice' sake ? What villain touch'd his body, that did stab, And not for justice ? What, shall one of us, That struck the foremost man of all this world But for supporting robbers, shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes, And sell the mighty space of our large honours For so much trash as may be grasped thus ? — I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, Than such a Roman.
Pagina 112 - You say you are a better soldier: Let it appear so; make your vaunting true, And it shall please me well. For mine own part, I shall be glad to learn of noble men. Cas. You wrong me every way, you wrong me, Brutus; I said, an elder soldier, not a better: Did I say better?
Pagina 210 - Muse, that on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That shepherd, who first taught the chosen seed, In the beginning how the Heavens and Earth Rose out of Chaos...
Pagina 150 - This fellow's of exceeding honesty, And knows all qualities, with a learned spirit, Of human dealings. If I do prove her haggard, Though that her jesses were my dear heart-strings, I 'ld whistle her off and let her down the wind, To prey at fortune.
Pagina 174 - I cannot tell what you and other men Think of this life, but, for my single self, I had as lief not be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself.