The Star Speaker: A Complete and Choice Collection of the Best Productions by the Best Authors, with an Exhaustive Treatise on the Subject of Vocal and Physical Culture and Gesturing |
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... know where we can find informa- tion upon it . When we enquire into any subject , the first thing we have to do is to know what books have treated of it . SAMUEL JOHNSON . THE STAR SPEAKER . VOCAL CULTURE . AN exhaustive analysis.
... know where we can find informa- tion upon it . When we enquire into any subject , the first thing we have to do is to know what books have treated of it . SAMUEL JOHNSON . THE STAR SPEAKER . VOCAL CULTURE . AN exhaustive analysis.
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... thing - a symmetrical form . Then our aim should always be to aid nature in a perfect and free development . Teachers and parents cannot perform a higher service for their pupils and children than by leading them to see that a ...
... thing - a symmetrical form . Then our aim should always be to aid nature in a perfect and free development . Teachers and parents cannot perform a higher service for their pupils and children than by leading them to see that a ...
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... of gesturing , the first thing to be considered is the proper handling of the feet . It has been said , and truthfully , that " graceful position precedes SORROW . graceful action . " The facility of movement 68 STAR SPEAKER .
... of gesturing , the first thing to be considered is the proper handling of the feet . It has been said , and truthfully , that " graceful position precedes SORROW . graceful action . " The facility of movement 68 STAR SPEAKER .
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... things That now give evidence against my soul 2 . For Edward's sake ; and see how he requites me ! O God ! if my ... thing has crossed your track ? I kneel to all the gods I know . Oh , come , my manly Idaho ! Great Spirit , what is this ...
... things That now give evidence against my soul 2 . For Edward's sake ; and see how he requites me ! O God ! if my ... thing has crossed your track ? I kneel to all the gods I know . Oh , come , my manly Idaho ! Great Spirit , what is this ...
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... thing addressed ; the hand almost open , fingers slightly contracted ; the left arm stiffly at the side , some distance from the person , palm of open hand to the front ; shoulders well back ; head erect ; lips wearing a fierce ...
... thing addressed ; the hand almost open , fingers slightly contracted ; the left arm stiffly at the side , some distance from the person , palm of open hand to the front ; shoulders well back ; head erect ; lips wearing a fierce ...
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Annabel Lee baby banjo beautiful bending bless body brave breast breath brow child cried dark darling dead dear door earth eyes face father feet gentle girl give grace gray grew hair hand head hear heard heart heaven Jack Jack Brown John Burns Katie Lee kiss knee knew laughed light lips little Meg live look mamma morning mother movement ne'er neath never night o'er OLD OAKEN BUCKET PAUL DENTON PHOEBE CARY poor pray prayer ROSE HARTWICK THORPE round SAMUEL WOODWORTH Santa Claus shining side sigh singin sleep SLEEPING SENTINEL smile snow song sorrow soul Spoopendyke stood sweet tears tell thee there's things thou thought to-day to-night told town turned Twas useter voice weary wife wonder words young
Popular passages
Page 374 - ALL hail the power of Jesus' name ! Let angels prostrate fall ; Bring forth the royal diadem, And crown him Lord of all.
Page 202 - LISTEN, my children, and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five ; Hardly a man is now alive Who remembers that famous day and year. He said to his friend, " If the British march By land or sea from the town to-night, Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch Of the North Church tower as a signal light, — One, if by land, and two, if by sea; And I on the opposite shore will be, Ready to ride and spread the alarm Through every Middlesex village...
Page 219 - For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn Or busy housewife ply her evening care : No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. 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...
Page 222 - THE EPITAPH Here rests his head upon the lap of earth A youth to fortune and to fame unknown: Fair science frowned not on his humble birth, And melancholy marked him for her own.
Page 205 - You know the rest. In the books you have read, How the British Regulars fired and fled, — How the farmers gave them ball for ball, From behind each fence and farmyard wall, Chasing the red-coats down the lane, Then crossing the fields to emerge again Under the trees at the turn of the road, And only pausing to fire and load.
Page 199 - Oh! why should the spirit of mortal be proud? — Like a swift-fleeting meteor, a fast-flying cloud, A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave, He passeth from life to his rest in the grave. "The leaves of the oak and the willow shall fade, Be scattered around, and together be laid ; And the young and the old, and the low and the high. Shall moulder to dust, and together shall lie.
Page 221 - E'en from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee, who, mindful of the unhonored dead, Dost in these lines their artless tale relate, If chance, by lonely contemplation led, Some kindred spirit shall inquire thy fate...
Page 221 - One morn I missed him on the customed hill, Along the heath and near his favorite tree; Another came; nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he; "The next with dirges due in sad array Slow through the churchway path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
Page 185 - And licked the soup from the cooks' own ladles, Split open the kegs of salted sprats, Made nests inside men's Sunday hats, And even spoiled the women's chats By drowning their speaking With shrieking and squeaking In fifty different sharps and flats. At last the people in a body To the Town Hall came flocking:
Page 189 - Nor suffered they Hostelry or Tavern To shock with mirth a street so solemn ; But opposite the place of the cavern They wrote the story on a column, And on the Great Church Window painted The same, to make the world acquainted How their children were stolen away ; And there it stands to this very day.