Orthophony: Or, Vocal Culture in Elocution: A Manual of Elementary Exercises, Adapted to Dr. Rush's "Philosophy of the Human Voice," and Designed as an Introduction to Russell's "American Elocutionist." |
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Page 60
... Heaven's first star alike ye see . Let it wave proudly o'er the good and brave , The supply lasts still . And gleaming and streaming and steaming and beaming , And rushing and flushing and brushing and gushing , And flapping and rapping ...
... Heaven's first star alike ye see . Let it wave proudly o'er the good and brave , The supply lasts still . And gleaming and streaming and steaming and beaming , And rushing and flushing and brushing and gushing , And flapping and rapping ...
Page 61
... heavens . Had he but heeded the counsel of his friend , he might have been saved . He came at last too late to be of any service . The magistrates stood on an elevated platform . - It is a fact familiar in the experience of most ...
... heavens . Had he but heeded the counsel of his friend , he might have been saved . He came at last too late to be of any service . The magistrates stood on an elevated platform . - It is a fact familiar in the experience of most ...
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... heaven and earth are still , though not in sleep , But breathless , as we grow when feeling most ; And silent , as we stand in thoughts too deep : - All heaven and earth are still : From the high host Of stars to the lulled lake , and ...
... heaven and earth are still , though not in sleep , But breathless , as we grow when feeling most ; And silent , as we stand in thoughts too deep : - All heaven and earth are still : From the high host Of stars to the lulled lake , and ...
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... heaven , that He may refine our nature from all its princi- ples of corruption , share with us His own immortality , admit us to His everlasting habitation , and crown us with His eternity . " 66 : 2. " Serious " Style . This form of ...
... heaven , that He may refine our nature from all its princi- ples of corruption , share with us His own immortality , admit us to His everlasting habitation , and crown us with His eternity . " 66 : 2. " Serious " Style . This form of ...
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... moon rising in her silent majesty , and leading up all the silver pomp of heaven . As I have gazed upon these quiet groves and shadowing lawns , silvered over and imperfectly lighted by streaks of dewy moonshine 86 VOCAL CULTURE .
... moon rising in her silent majesty , and leading up all the silver pomp of heaven . As I have gazed upon these quiet groves and shadowing lawns , silvered over and imperfectly lighted by streaks of dewy moonshine 86 VOCAL CULTURE .
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Page 111 - Shall one by one be gathered to thy side By those who in their turn shall follow them.
Page 124 - Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. Thou turnest man to destruction ; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.
Page 320 - twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street; On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the glowing Hours with flying feet.— But hark!
Page 210 - Your infants in your arms, and there have sat The live-long day, with patient expectation, To see great Pompey pass the streets of Rome...
Page 277 - mong Graemes of the Netherby clan ; Forsters, Fenwicks, and Musgraves, they rode and they ran : There was racing and chasing on Cannobie Lee, But the lost bride of Netherby ne'er did they see. So daring in love, and so dauntless in war, Have ye e'er heard of gallant like young Lochinvar?
Page 85 - Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world — with kings, The powerful of the earth — the wise, the good, Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre.
Page 327 - The hunter's call, to faun and dryad known ! The oak-crowned sisters, and their chaste-eyed queen, Satyrs and sylvan boys, were seen, Peeping from forth their alleys green : Brown Exercise rejoiced to hear ; And Sport leapt up, and seized his beechen spear.
Page 270 - He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress (Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers...
Page 328 - Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, Or loose the bands of Orion ? Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season ? Or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons...
Page 130 - He hath disgraced me and hindered me of half a million ; laughed at my losses, mocked at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated mine enemies! and what's his reason? I am a Jew ! Hath not a Jew eyes?