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 Schools1851 - Elocution - 393 pages |
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... style of reading the language of its prose writers and poets , cannot be too assiduously cultivated by a lady : the accomplishment is peculiarly feminine , and its possession is a distinctive mark of high breeding and good education ...
... style of reading the language of its prose writers and poets , cannot be too assiduously cultivated by a lady : the accomplishment is peculiarly feminine , and its possession is a distinctive mark of high breeding and good education ...
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... style of Elocution , are as essential , almost , as force of argument and grace of language . How many a good story is marred in the telling : how many a good sermon is lost in the preaching : how many a good speech , excellent in ...
... style of Elocution , are as essential , almost , as force of argument and grace of language . How many a good story is marred in the telling : how many a good sermon is lost in the preaching : how many a good speech , excellent in ...
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... style ; but read and speak naturally , as if you understood and felt what you are reading and speaking ; nature and habit will show you how ; though , at the same time , however clearly you may understand , and however deeply you may ...
... style ; but read and speak naturally , as if you understood and felt what you are reading and speaking ; nature and habit will show you how ; though , at the same time , however clearly you may understand , and however deeply you may ...
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... style of composition , every variety of feeling , every vicissitude of passion : and the Elocution- ist who is thoroughly master of his art , no more fixes his at- tention , while speaking , on his own voice , INTRODUCTION . 19.
... style of composition , every variety of feeling , every vicissitude of passion : and the Elocution- ist who is thoroughly master of his art , no more fixes his at- tention , while speaking , on his own voice , INTRODUCTION . 19.
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... style of delivery , by exercising himself , on rule , in giving voice and expression to the language of oth- ers , or to his own premeditated and pre - written effusions , till , from practice , what he has done continually , by rule ...
... style of delivery , by exercising himself , on rule , in giving voice and expression to the language of oth- ers , or to his own premeditated and pre - written effusions , till , from practice , what he has done continually , by rule ...
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Page 358 - The quality of mercy is not strain'd ; It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven, Upon the place beneath ; it is twice bless'd ; It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes : 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest ; it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown...
Page 288 - O, young Lochinvar is come out of the west, Through all the wide Border his steed was the best ; And save his good broad-sword he weapon had none, He rode all unarmed, and he rode all alone. So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war, There never was knight like the young Lochinvar.
Page 337 - He was my friend, faithful and just to me : But Brutus says he was ambitious ; And Brutus is an honorable man. He hath brought many captives home to Rome, Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill...
Page 319 - Lochiel, Lochiel ! beware of the day ; For, dark and despairing, my sight I may seal, But man cannot cover what God would reveal. 'Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before.
Page 282 - Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun; the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between; The venerable woods; rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the meadows green...
Page 282 - Take the wings Of morning, and the Barcan desert pierce, Or lose thyself in the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound Save his own dashings — yet the dead are there ! And millions in those solitudes, since first The flight of years began, have laid them down In their last sleep — the dead reign there alone.
Page 324 - ... tis true, this god did shake ; His coward lips did from their colour fly; And that same eye whose bend doth awe the world Did lose his lustre : I did hear him groan : Ay, and that tongue of his that bade the Romans Mark him, and write his speeches in their books, Alas ! it cried, " Give me some drink, Titinius,
Page 326 - Signior Antonio, many a time and oft In the Rialto you have rated me About my monies, and my usances : Still have I borne it with a patient shrug ; For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe...
Page 308 - Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase!) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace, And saw within the moonlight in his room, Making it rich, and like a lily in bloom, An angel writing in a book of gold. Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold, And to the presence in the room he said, "What writest thou?" The vision raised its head, And with a look made of all sweet accord, Answered, "The names of those who love the Lord.
Page 174 - From wandering on a foreign strand ! — If such there breathe, go, mark him well ; For him no minstrel raptures swell,; High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim ; Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch...