The Orator's Manual: A Practical and Philosophical Treatise on Vocal Culture, Emphasis and Gesture, Together with Selections for Declamation and Reading |
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... beginning of his course , to be made acquainted with the meaning of the different gestures ( §§ 172-175 ) each of which he should also be shown exactly how to make . 8. It is after this preliminary work that we come to our first real ...
... beginning of his course , to be made acquainted with the meaning of the different gestures ( §§ 172-175 ) each of which he should also be shown exactly how to make . 8. It is after this preliminary work that we come to our first real ...
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... beginning of their training , are the most unprom- ising . 13. If there be any who read this and doubt these statements , and who have influence among the trustees or faculties of the hun- dreds of colleges in our country in which no ...
... beginning of their training , are the most unprom- ising . 13. If there be any who read this and doubt these statements , and who have influence among the trustees or faculties of the hun- dreds of colleges in our country in which no ...
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... Beginnings of Great Hist'l Movements G. S. Hillard , 241 In Behalf of Starving Ireland S. S. Prentiss , 243 Danger of the Spirit of Conquest Thomas Corwin , 244 Hamlet's Instructions Shakspeare , 246 Demonstrative and Diffusive , § 218 ...
... Beginnings of Great Hist'l Movements G. S. Hillard , 241 In Behalf of Starving Ireland S. S. Prentiss , 243 Danger of the Spirit of Conquest Thomas Corwin , 244 Hamlet's Instructions Shakspeare , 246 Demonstrative and Diffusive , § 218 ...
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... beginning low , and gradually ascending the scale on each syllable , and ending with the rising inflection : Do you mean to tell me that you could have thought that I could go all around town and tell everybody that I happened to meet ...
... beginning low , and gradually ascending the scale on each syllable , and ending with the rising inflection : Do you mean to tell me that you could have thought that I could go all around town and tell everybody that I happened to meet ...
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... beginning of tone louder ( not neces- sarily very loud ) than its continuation or end ; made with explosive or expulsive utterance ( §§ 8 , 10 ) . With the same movement ( § 15 ) begin a soft sound as the hands begin to descend , and ...
... beginning of tone louder ( not neces- sarily very loud ) than its continuation or end ; made with explosive or expulsive utterance ( §§ 8 , 10 ) . With the same movement ( § 15 ) begin a soft sound as the hands begin to descend , and ...
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Absalom American arms aspirate beauty blood brave breast breath brow Cćsar Caius Verres circumflex conditional mood dare death downward earth elbow emphasis emphatic England express expulsive f RO falling inflection father feel fight Finger gesture fingers force freedom Ft on waist gentlemen George Croly gesture give grave Greece h RC hand hear heart heaven Helon honor inflection Ireland liberty lift light lips Lochinvar look Lord loud medium pitch melody Moscow movement nation Netherby never noble o'er orotund PARTITION OF POLAND pass pause principle prone Roman Rome Rússia semitonic side slow smile sound Spartacus spirit stood sustained sword syllables tell Terminal Stress thee thou thought tion tone tr R C turn uttered Virgínia voice wave words wrist во Ꭱ Ꮯ
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Page 78 - I did send to you For certain sums of gold, which you denied me: 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 102 - The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
Page 309 - Yet a few days and thee The all-beholding sun shall see no more In all his course ; nor yet in the cold ground, Where thy pale form was laid with many tears, Nor in the embrace of ocean, shall exist Thy image. Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim Thy growth, to be resolved to earth again...
Page 70 - PRAISE ye the Lord. Praise God in his sanctuary: praise him in the firmament of his power. Praise him for his mighty acts: praise him according to his excellent greatness. Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the psaltery and harp. Praise him with the timbrel and dance : praise him with stringed instruments and organs. Praise him upon the loud cymbals: praise him upon the high sounding cymbals. Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord. Praise ye the Lord.
Page 309 - To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language ; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware.
Page 273 - He stayed not for brake, and he stopped not for stone, He swam the Eske river where ford there was none; But, ere he alighted at Netherby 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. So boldly he entered the Netherby Hall, Among bridesmen, and kinsmen, and brothers, and all.
Page 170 - Mr. President, it is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren, till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? Are we disposed to be of the number of those, who, having eyes, see not, and having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation?
Page 306 - Arve and Arveiron at thy base Rave ceaselessly; but thou, most awful Form! Risest from forth thy silent sea of pines, How silently! Around thee and above Deep is the air and dark, substantial, black, An ebon mass: methinks thou piercest it, As with a wedge! But when I look again, It is thine own calm home, thy crystal shrine, Thy habitation from eternity! 0 dread and silent Mount! I gazed upon thee, Till thou, still present to the bodily sense, Didst vanish from my thought: entranced in prayer 1...
Page 286 - Strike ! till the last armed foe expires ! Strike ! for your altars and your fires ! Strike ! for the green graves of your sires ; God, and your native land...
Page 110 - One touch to her hand, and one word in her ear, When they reached the hall door, and the charger stood near; So light to the croupe the fair lady he swung, So light to the saddle before her he sprung! "She is won! we are gone, over bank, bush, and scaur; They'll have fleet steeds that follow,