A Manual of Elocution: Founded Upon the Philosophy of the Human Voice. With Classified Illustrations Suggested by and Arranged to Meet the Practical Difficulties of Instruction |
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... star , Try over - hard to roll the British R ; Do put your accents in the proper spot ; Don't let me beg you - don't say " How ? " for " What ? " And when you stick on conversation's burs , Don't strew the pathway with those dreadful ...
... star , Try over - hard to roll the British R ; Do put your accents in the proper spot ; Don't let me beg you - don't say " How ? " for " What ? " And when you stick on conversation's burs , Don't strew the pathway with those dreadful ...
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... stars and flowers . If we were in harmony with the whole , we might understand her . Here and there a spirit , less at discord , hears semi - tones in the ocean and wind , and when the stars look into his heart , he is stirred with dim ...
... stars and flowers . If we were in harmony with the whole , we might understand her . Here and there a spirit , less at discord , hears semi - tones in the ocean and wind , and when the stars look into his heart , he is stirred with dim ...
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... stars , the rising and setting sun , all overflow with beauty . The universe is its temple ; and those men who are alive to it , cannot lift their eyes without feeling them- selves encompassed with it on every side . Now , this beauty ...
... stars , the rising and setting sun , all overflow with beauty . The universe is its temple ; and those men who are alive to it , cannot lift their eyes without feeling them- selves encompassed with it on every side . Now , this beauty ...
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... stars are cold ; say not the forces of the universe are against thee ; believe not that the course of things below is a relentless fate ; for thou canst see the stars , thou canst use the forces ; in right , thy will is unconquerable ...
... stars are cold ; say not the forces of the universe are against thee ; believe not that the course of things below is a relentless fate ; for thou canst see the stars , thou canst use the forces ; in right , thy will is unconquerable ...
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... stars , without significance , insphere Our habitation . We meantime , our ills Heap up against this good ; and lift a cry Against this work - day world , this ill - spread feast , As if ourselves were better certainly That what we come ...
... stars , without significance , insphere Our habitation . We meantime , our ills Heap up against this good ; and lift a cry Against this work - day world , this ill - spread feast , As if ourselves were better certainly That what we come ...
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Page 369 - But our love it was stronger by far than the love Of those who were older than we, Of many far wiser than we; And neither the angels in heaven above, Nor the demons down under the sea, Can ever dissever my soul from the soul Of the beautiful Annabel Lee: For the moon never beams, without bringing me dreams Of the beautiful Annabel Lee...
Page 177 - If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility ? revenge : If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example ? why, revenge. The villainy, you teach me, I will execute; and it shall go hard, but I will better the instruction.
Page 309 - The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despised love, the law's delay, The insolence of office and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make, With a bare bodkin?
Page 148 - Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand ? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight ? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain ? I see thee yet, in form as palpable As this which now I draw. Thou marshall'st me the way that I was going ; And such an instrument I was to use. Mine eyes are made the fools o...
Page 117 - Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the...
Page 138 - The splendor falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in story: The long light shakes across the lakes, And the wild cataract leaps in glory, Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.
Page 117 - If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the...
Page 255 - THERE was a time when meadow, grove, and stream. The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. It is not now as it hath been of yore ; — Turn wheresoe'er I may, By night or day, The things which I have seen I now can see no more.
Page 343 - Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke; How jocund did they drive their team afield! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke! Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys and destiny obscure; Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the poor.
Page 128 - VITAL spark of heavenly flame ! Quit, oh, quit this mortal frame ! Trembling, hoping, lingering, flying : Oh, the pain, the bliss of dying ! Cease, fond nature ! cease thy strife, And let me languish into life ! Hark, they whisper ; angels say,