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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... king lay waking and thinking , while his sub- iects were sleeping . VALUE OF THE ELEMENTARY SOUNDS . All deficiencies of articulation ( not proceeding from organic defect ) are merely an imperfect or difficult ut- terance of the ...
... king lay waking and thinking , while his sub- iects were sleeping . VALUE OF THE ELEMENTARY SOUNDS . All deficiencies of articulation ( not proceeding from organic defect ) are merely an imperfect or difficult ut- terance of the ...
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... kings TM But mercy is above this sceptred sway TM - It is enthroned " in the hearts of kings- It is an attribute to God himself ' And earthly power doth then show likest God's When mercy seasons justice . I Therefore Jew Tho ' justice ...
... kings TM But mercy is above this sceptred sway TM - It is enthroned " in the hearts of kings- It is an attribute to God himself ' And earthly power doth then show likest God's When mercy seasons justice . I Therefore Jew Tho ' justice ...
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... king's friends and republicans ; whigs and tories ; treache- rous friends and open enemies ; —that it was , indeed , a very curious show , but utterly unsafe to touch , and unsure to stand on . The colleagues whom he had assorted at the ...
... king's friends and republicans ; whigs and tories ; treache- rous friends and open enemies ; —that it was , indeed , a very curious show , but utterly unsafe to touch , and unsure to stand on . The colleagues whom he had assorted at the ...
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... king seized a | flambeau with | zeal to des- | troy . " The pulsation of voice , and the classification or division of the syllables as accented and arranged in the preceding coup- lets , distinctly mark their different rhythm . - To ...
... king seized a | flambeau with | zeal to des- | troy . " The pulsation of voice , and the classification or division of the syllables as accented and arranged in the preceding coup- lets , distinctly mark their different rhythm . - To ...
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... king And of his race ! O keep me pitiless ! Expel all human weakness from my frame , That this keen weapon shake not when his heart Should feel its point ; and if he has a child Whose blood is needful to the sacrifice My country asks ...
... king And of his race ! O keep me pitiless ! Expel all human weakness from my frame , That this keen weapon shake not when his heart Should feel its point ; and if he has a child Whose blood is needful to the sacrifice My country asks ...
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