A Practical Manual of Elocution: Embracing Voice and Gesture : Designed for Schools, Academies and Colleges, as Well as for Private Learners |
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... words are composed , and so practice on succeeded . them as to make them familiar , natural , and habitual , or he will always be blun- dering . No one but he who has prac- tised on these sounds , and used such works as this , can tell ...
... words are composed , and so practice on succeeded . them as to make them familiar , natural , and habitual , or he will always be blun- dering . No one but he who has prac- tised on these sounds , and used such works as this , can tell ...
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... words . The Chironomia , in particular , contains a very full set of excellent illustrations of the principles of gesture , which most of the later writers on elocution have very judi- ciously used , instead of attempting to furnish new ...
... words . The Chironomia , in particular , contains a very full set of excellent illustrations of the principles of gesture , which most of the later writers on elocution have very judi- ciously used , instead of attempting to furnish new ...
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... words may not be heard . This suggests a strong correspondence between the voice and the action in delivery ; and yet they are so distinct , that it is presumed the learner will study them most successfully , if treated separately ...
... words may not be heard . This suggests a strong correspondence between the voice and the action in delivery ; and yet they are so distinct , that it is presumed the learner will study them most successfully , if treated separately ...
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... words as ruin , pray , & c . 5. The z is one of the most agreeable sounds to the ear that our language furnishes . But its agreeable qualities are developed only as the tongue recedes from the teeth . It should be entirely divested of ...
... words as ruin , pray , & c . 5. The z is one of the most agreeable sounds to the ear that our language furnishes . But its agreeable qualities are developed only as the tongue recedes from the teeth . It should be entirely divested of ...
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... words in which they occur . This must be learned from Dictionaries , and by observing the best usage . But when this is done , the learner has but to employ his already disciplined organs in the execution of what usage and taste shall ...
... words in which they occur . This must be learned from Dictionaries , and by observing the best usage . But when this is done , the learner has but to employ his already disciplined organs in the execution of what usage and taste shall ...
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Page 144 - And let those that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them : for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the mean time, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered: that's villainous; and . shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.
Page 174 - Caesar carelessly but nod on him. He had a fever when he was in Spain ; And, when the fit was on him, I did mark How he did shake...
Page 131 - The gay will laugh When thou art gone, the solemn brood of care Plod on, and each one, as before, will chase His favorite phantom ; yet all these shall leave Their mirth and their employments, and shall come And make their bed with thee.
Page 110 - Perhaps thou gavest me, though unfelt, a kiss ; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss ; Ah, that maternal smile, it answers yes ! I heard the bell tolled on thy burial day, I saw the hearse that bore thee slow away, And, turning from my nursery window, drew A long, long sigh, and wept a last adieu ! But was it such ? It was.
Page 129 - HAIL, holy Light, offspring of Heaven first-born! Or of the Eternal coeternal beam May I express thee unblamed? since God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity — dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate!
Page 165 - Julius bleed for justice' sake ? What villain touch'd his body, that did stab, And not for justice ? What, shall one of us, That struck the foremost man of all this world But for supporting robbers, shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes, And sell the mighty space of our large honours For so much trash as may be grasped thus ? — I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, Than such a Roman.
Page 112 - You say you are a better soldier: Let it appear so; make your vaunting true, And it shall please me well. For mine own part, I shall be glad to learn of noble men. Cas. You wrong me every way, you wrong me, Brutus; I said, an elder soldier, not a better: Did I say better?
Page 210 - Muse, that on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That shepherd, who first taught the chosen seed, In the beginning how the Heavens and Earth Rose out of Chaos...
Page 150 - This fellow's of exceeding honesty, And knows all qualities, with a learned spirit, Of human dealings. If I do prove her haggard, Though that her jesses were my dear heart-strings, I 'ld whistle her off and let her down the wind, To prey at fortune.
Page 174 - I cannot tell what you and other men Think of this life, but, for my single self, I had as lief not be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself.