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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... sow many seeds to obtain a few flowers . " 999 But I am happy to be able to add , that I have been gra- tified by finding my efforts rewarded by the marked im- B provement in voice , delivery , expression and gesture , INTRODUCTION . 25.
... sow many seeds to obtain a few flowers . " 999 But I am happy to be able to add , that I have been gra- tified by finding my efforts rewarded by the marked im- B provement in voice , delivery , expression and gesture , INTRODUCTION . 25.
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... marked under the same numeral , with the distinctive mark - , long , or ~ , short . t 6. So the tonic of e in e - ve , and of i in i - ll , is organically the same , differing only in quantity ; numbered and marked ac- cordingly . 5 ...
... marked under the same numeral , with the distinctive mark - , long , or ~ , short . t 6. So the tonic of e in e - ve , and of i in i - ll , is organically the same , differing only in quantity ; numbered and marked ac- cordingly . 5 ...
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... marked in the punctuation . READ : 1. Nothing is more prejudicial to the great interests of a na- tion than unsettled and varying policy . Observe that in this sentence there is no grammat- ical pause . 2. The people of the United ...
... marked in the punctuation . READ : 1. Nothing is more prejudicial to the great interests of a na- tion than unsettled and varying policy . Observe that in this sentence there is no grammat- ical pause . 2. The people of the United ...
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... marked , as to rhetorical pauses , as follows : 1. Nothing is more prejudicial to the great interests of a nation- than unsettled and varying policy . 2. The people of the United States have justly supposed that the policy of protecting ...
... marked , as to rhetorical pauses , as follows : 1. Nothing is more prejudicial to the great interests of a nation- than unsettled and varying policy . 2. The people of the United States have justly supposed that the policy of protecting ...
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... marked and read with rhetorical pause : M Logicians may reason about abstractions , but the great mass of mankind can never feel an interest in them They must have images . - For further illustration , I give the following sentences ...
... marked and read with rhetorical pause : M Logicians may reason about abstractions , but the great mass of mankind can never feel an interest in them They must have images . - For further illustration , I give the following sentences ...
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Page 283 - 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 334 - You have done that you should be sorry for. There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats, For I am arm'd so strong in honesty That they pass by me as the idle wind, Which I respect not.
Page 185 - Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes, and groves ; * And ye that on the sands with printless foot Do chase the ebbing Neptune, and do fly him, When he comes back...
Page 353 - With a bare bodkin ? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of ? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all...
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...
Page 321 - O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, That I am meek and gentle with these butchers ! Thou art the ruins of the noblest man That ever lived in the tide of times.
Page 337 - When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept; Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious, And Brutus is an honorable man. You all did see that on the Lupercal I thrice presented him a kingly crown, Which he did thrice refuse.
Page 338 - tis his will : Let but the commons hear this testament, (Which, pardon me, I do not mean to read) And they would go and kiss dead Caesar's wounds, And dip their napkins in his sacred blood ; Yea, beg a hair of him for memory, And, dying, mention it within their wills, Bequeathing it, as a rich legacy, Unto their issue.
Page 288 - River where ford there was none; But, ere he alighted at Nethe'rby gate, The bride had consented, the gallant came late: For. a laggard in love and a dastard in war Was to wed the fair Ellen of brave Lochinvar.
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.