A Practical Manual of Elocution: Embracing Voice and Gesture ; Designed for Schools, Academies and Colleges, as Well as for Private Learners |
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... perfect clearness a subject which is new ; and such will this be to many into whose hands this book will fall . Yet I flatter myself that I have succeeded in rendering the entire sub- ject so simple that any person of ordinary ...
... perfect clearness a subject which is new ; and such will this be to many into whose hands this book will fall . Yet I flatter myself that I have succeeded in rendering the entire sub- ject so simple that any person of ordinary ...
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... perfect develop- ment of the same system which has produced nearly all the accomplished orators of our day . This is but a system of principles , by which the learner is to be led into the very arcana of the orator's art , instead of ...
... perfect develop- ment of the same system which has produced nearly all the accomplished orators of our day . This is but a system of principles , by which the learner is to be led into the very arcana of the orator's art , instead of ...
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... perfect Text - Book in this interesting branch of study . It should give the taste to direct , and the power to execute . These are perfectly distinct , though closely allied . Many speakers fail , not so much from not knowing how a ...
... perfect Text - Book in this interesting branch of study . It should give the taste to direct , and the power to execute . These are perfectly distinct , though closely allied . Many speakers fail , not so much from not knowing how a ...
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... perfect nature ; not to pervert it . The greatest orators , even the most popular players , are those who have made art subservient to the development of their own native powers ; and who at least seem to have been formed on no model ...
... perfect nature ; not to pervert it . The greatest orators , even the most popular players , are those who have made art subservient to the development of their own native powers ; and who at least seem to have been formed on no model ...
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... perfect distinctness of articula- tion carried into the general delivery . Fourth , it will give him the command of the various elements both of voice and gesture , which give effect to the expression of thought and feeling , and which ...
... perfect distinctness of articula- tion carried into the general delivery . Fourth , it will give him the command of the various elements both of voice and gesture , which give effect to the expression of thought and feeling , and which ...
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Page 111 - What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome?
Page 142 - 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.
Page 172 - 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...
Page 129 - 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.
Page 108 - 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.
Page 128 - And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?
Page 169 - And weltering in his blood ; Deserted at his utmost need By those his former bounty fed ; On the bare earth exposed he lies With not a friend to close his eyes.
Page 127 - 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!
Page 128 - Dark-heaving, boundless, endless and sublime — The image of eternity — the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Page 148 - 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.