The model elocutionist, by A. Comstock and J.A. Mair1874 |
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... never ensconced themselves behind elevated desks , nor " stood upon all fours , " as some of our public speakers do ; they were masters of their art . Hence they needed no screen to conceal uncouth attitudes and awkward gestures from ...
... never ensconced themselves behind elevated desks , nor " stood upon all fours , " as some of our public speakers do ; they were masters of their art . Hence they needed no screen to conceal uncouth attitudes and awkward gestures from ...
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... never known to fail . Some children omit the element z when it follows d , and the element sh when it follows t ; for instance , they pronounce John , don , and Charles , tarles , etc. * My method of correcting these defects is to ...
... never known to fail . Some children omit the element z when it follows d , and the element sh when it follows t ; for instance , they pronounce John , don , and Charles , tarles , etc. * My method of correcting these defects is to ...
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... never formed in the chest or in the head ; it is always formed in the upper part of the larynx , at the aperture of the glottis . It is , however , formed higher or lower in the throat , according to its degree of acuteness or gravity ...
... never formed in the chest or in the head ; it is always formed in the upper part of the larynx , at the aperture of the glottis . It is , however , formed higher or lower in the throat , according to its degree of acuteness or gravity ...
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... never be employed merely for the sake of variety , but for emphasis and cadences . Neither should a rising inflection be used for the sake of mere harmony , " where a falling inflection would better express the meaning of the author ...
... never be employed merely for the sake of variety , but for emphasis and cadences . Neither should a rising inflection be used for the sake of mere harmony , " where a falling inflection would better express the meaning of the author ...
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... never be resorted to for the sake of mere variety — it should always be subservient to the sense ; for it is the province of modulation to mark changes of sentiment , changes in the train of thought , and parenthetical clauses . Under ...
... never be resorted to for the sake of mere variety — it should always be subservient to the sense ; for it is the province of modulation to mark changes of sentiment , changes in the train of thought , and parenthetical clauses . Under ...
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Page 157 - Hear the sledges with the bells Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night! While the stars that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight...
Page 187 - Changed his hand and check'd his pride. He chose a mournful Muse Soft pity to infuse: He sung Darius great and good, By too severe a fate Fallen, fallen, fallen, fallen. Fallen from his high estate.
Page 150 - For I can raise no money by vile means: By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring From the hard hands of peasants their' vile trash By any indirection.
Page 209 - Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend ! " I shrieked, upstarting. " Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's Plutonian shore ! Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken ! Leave my loneliness unbroken ! — quit the bust above my door ! Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door ! " Quoth the Raven,
Page 207 - Much I marvelled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly, Though its answer little meaning — little relevancy bore; For we cannot help agreeing that no living human being Ever yet was blessed with seeing bird above his chamber door, Bird or beast upon the sculptured bust above his chamber door, With such name as "Nevermore.
Page 157 - Oh, from out the sounding cells what a gush of euphony voluminously wells ! How it swells, how it dwells on the future ! How it tells of the rapture that impels to the swinging and the ringing of the bells, bells, bells, of the bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells — to the rhyming and the chiming of the bells...
Page 133 - Hew down the bridge, Sir Consul, With all the speed ye may; I, with two more to help me, Will hold the foe in play. In yon strait path a thousand May well be stopped by three. Now who will stand on either hand, And keep the bridge with me?" Then out spake Spurius Lartius ; A Ramnian proud was he: "Lo, I will stand at thy right hand, And keep the bridge with thee.
Page 85 - The foe! they come! they come!' And wild and high the 'Cameron's gathering' rose! The war-note of Lochiel, which Albyn's hills Have heard, and heard, too, have her Saxon foes: How in the noon of night that pibroch thrills, Savage and shrill! But with the breath which fills Their mountain-pipe, so fill the mountaineers With the fierce native daring which instils The stirring memory of a thousand years, And Evan's, Donald's fame rings in each clansman's ears!
Page 133 - Then out spake brave Horatius, The Captain of the gate : 'To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late; And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers And the temples of his Gods...
Page 87 - If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms — never, never, never.