The Exhibition Speaker Containing Farce Dialogue and Tableaux with Exercises for Declamation in Prose and Verse: Also, a Treatise on Oratory and Elocutions, Hints on Dramatic CharactersSheldon, Lamport & Blakeman, 1856 - Počet stran: 278 |
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... speak his own when needful . Subject to the criticism of rival school - fellows and the strictures of his teachers , he can not fail to acquire that ease of action so indispensable to a public speaker , a command of voice not otherwise ...
... speak his own when needful . Subject to the criticism of rival school - fellows and the strictures of his teachers , he can not fail to acquire that ease of action so indispensable to a public speaker , a command of voice not otherwise ...
Strana 15
... speak- ing well ; " therefore , to acquire this art the reader or speaker must have a perfect knowledge of the elementary sounds of the English language . Without this knowledge he will be unable to articulate correctly , and errors in ...
... speak- ing well ; " therefore , to acquire this art the reader or speaker must have a perfect knowledge of the elementary sounds of the English language . Without this knowledge he will be unable to articulate correctly , and errors in ...
Strana 19
... speaking of Achilles , attributes to the voice of his hero an irresistible effect : " He stood and shouted : Pallas also raised A dreadful shout , and tumult infinite Excited throughout all the host of Troy . ” But the shout of Milton's ...
... speaking of Achilles , attributes to the voice of his hero an irresistible effect : " He stood and shouted : Pallas also raised A dreadful shout , and tumult infinite Excited throughout all the host of Troy . ” But the shout of Milton's ...
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... speaking in our assemblies ; and few , perhaps , are to be found so perfect as not to require some alteration ; or which may not derive benefit from the observation of some of the general rules for the management of that organ . These ...
... speaking in our assemblies ; and few , perhaps , are to be found so perfect as not to require some alteration ; or which may not derive benefit from the observation of some of the general rules for the management of that organ . These ...
Strana 22
... speak with deliberation , and when alone , practice frequently those words or letters which he finds it most difficult to enounce . He should also furnish his mind with a copious vocabulary of synonyms , so that if 22 THE EXHIBITION ...
... speak with deliberation , and when alone , practice frequently those words or letters which he finds it most difficult to enounce . He should also furnish his mind with a copious vocabulary of synonyms , so that if 22 THE EXHIBITION ...
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Strana 192 - When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last time, the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union ; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent ; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood...
Strana 133 - I am thy father's spirit; Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night, And for the day confined to fast in fires, Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature Are burnt and purged away.
Strana 136 - ... twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure.
Strana 192 - Liberty first and Union afterwards ; but everywhere, spread all over in characters of living light, blazing on all its ample folds, as they float over the sea and over the land, and in every wind under the whole heavens, that other sentiment, dear to every true American heart, Liberty and Union, Now and Forever, One and Inseparable.
Strana 167 - What if this cursed hand Were thicker than itself with brother's blood, Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens To wash it white as snow?
Strana 136 - O, it offends me to the soul, to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings...
Strana 133 - May sweep to my revenge. Ghost. I find thee apt ; And duller shouldst thou be than the fat weed That roots itself in ease on Lethe wharf, Wouldst thou not stir in this.
Strana 136 - Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus ; but use all gently ; for in the very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say, whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
Strana 136 - Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor. Suit the action to the word, the word to the action, with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature.
Strana 167 - I'll look up ; My fault is past. But O, what form of prayer Can serve my turn ?