The Art of Elocution, Or, Logical and Musical Reading and Declamation: With an Appendix, Containing a Copious Practice in Oratorical, Poetical, and Dramatic Reading and Recitation ; the Whole Forming a Complete Speaker, Well Adapted to Private Pupils, Classes, and the Use of Schools |
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Page 75
... hand of the Great Master of all Harmony . It has its bellows , its pipe , its mouth - piece ; and when we know the " stops " " it will discourse most eloquent music . " It has its ga- mut , or scale of ascent and descent ; it has its ...
... hand of the Great Master of all Harmony . It has its bellows , its pipe , its mouth - piece ; and when we know the " stops " " it will discourse most eloquent music . " It has its ga- mut , or scale of ascent and descent ; it has its ...
Page 119
... hand of God ! 2. It was a loathsome herd , -which could be compared to nothing so fitly as to the rabble of Comus , — Grotesque monsters , - half human , half bestial , - dropping with wine , bloated with gluttony , and reeling in ...
... hand of God ! 2. It was a loathsome herd , -which could be compared to nothing so fitly as to the rabble of Comus , — Grotesque monsters , - half human , half bestial , - dropping with wine , bloated with gluttony , and reeling in ...
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... hands of Lord Chatham - a great and celebrated name ; a name that keeps the name of this country respectable in every other on the globe . It may truly be called , Clarum et venerabile nomen Gentibus , et multum nostræ quod proderat ...
... hands of Lord Chatham - a great and celebrated name ; a name that keeps the name of this country respectable in every other on the globe . It may truly be called , Clarum et venerabile nomen Gentibus , et multum nostræ quod proderat ...
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... hands with Antony in pledge of amity , have left him alone in the Senate house , —he exclaims , Oh ! pardon me , -thou bleeding piece of earth , — That I am meek and gentle with these butchers ! The force and expression of this passage ...
... hands with Antony in pledge of amity , have left him alone in the Senate house , —he exclaims , Oh ! pardon me , -thou bleeding piece of earth , — That I am meek and gentle with these butchers ! The force and expression of this passage ...
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... hand signs proscriptions , and sweeps away the food of the widow and the orphan , his eyes overflow with tears ; and he converts the healing balm , that bleeds from wounded humanity , into a rancorous and deadly poison to the race of ...
... hand signs proscriptions , and sweeps away the food of the widow and the orphan , his eyes overflow with tears ; and he converts the healing balm , that bleeds from wounded humanity , into a rancorous and deadly poison to the race of ...
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