The Exhibition Speaker: Containing Farces, Dialogues, and Tableaux : with Exercises for Declamation in Prose and Verse, Also a Treatise on Oratory and Elocution, Hints on Dramatic Characters, Costumes, Position on the Stage, Making Up, Etc., Etc. : with IllustrationsSheldon, Blakeman & Company, 1867 - 268 Seiten |
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... called , exhibition days , by tyros in oratory , and embryo statesmen , to the edification of strangers , and the delight of relatives and friends , which have been justly popular with those for whose use they were intended , and ...
... called , exhibition days , by tyros in oratory , and embryo statesmen , to the edification of strangers , and the delight of relatives and friends , which have been justly popular with those for whose use they were intended , and ...
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... called upon to explain to his masters the plans by which he intends to advance their interests . If he would do this well , he must be taught how , and for such tuition he must look to the school - room . Practice in reciting the ...
... called upon to explain to his masters the plans by which he intends to advance their interests . If he would do this well , he must be taught how , and for such tuition he must look to the school - room . Practice in reciting the ...
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... called upon to occupy a seat in those legislative halls whose walls yet echo with the speeches of a Clay or a Webster , —those mighty dead , the thunder of whose eloquence , reverberating through all time , shall mon- ument their memory ...
... called upon to occupy a seat in those legislative halls whose walls yet echo with the speeches of a Clay or a Webster , —those mighty dead , the thunder of whose eloquence , reverberating through all time , shall mon- ument their memory ...
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... called by a contradictory appellation , speaking through the nose , and is seldom difficult to remove . The sound of the letter n , when formed by pressing the upper part of the tongue against the palate , should also pass entirely ...
... called by a contradictory appellation , speaking through the nose , and is seldom difficult to remove . The sound of the letter n , when formed by pressing the upper part of the tongue against the palate , should also pass entirely ...
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... called the silent preparation of the voice . 3. The speaker should begin rather under the ordinary pitch of his voice than above it . 4. Every speaker should endeavor to deliver the principal part of his discourse in the middle pitch of ...
... called the silent preparation of the voice . 3. The speaker should begin rather under the ordinary pitch of his voice than above it . 4. Every speaker should endeavor to deliver the principal part of his discourse in the middle pitch of ...
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Seite 134 - ... 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.
Seite 189 - That Union we reached only by the discipline of our virtues in the severe school of adversity. It had its origin in the necessities of disordered finance, prostrate commerce, and ruined credit. Under its benign influences, these great interests immediately awoke as from the dead, and sprang forth with newness of life.
Seite 190 - 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 ! Mr.
Seite 135 - Hath seal'd thee for herself: for thou hast been As one, in suffering all, that suffers nothing ; A man, that Fortune's buffets and rewards...
Seite 134 - ... accent of Christians, nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted, and bellowed, that I have thought some of Nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Seite 131 - 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.
Seite 214 - Islands of the Blest'. The mountains look on Marathon, And Marathon looks on the sea. And musing there an hour alone, I dreamed that Greece might still be free, For standing on the Persians' grave, I could not deem myself a slave.
Seite 215 - Must we but blush?— our fathers bled. Earth! render back from out thy breast A remnant of our Spartan dead! Of the three hundred, grant but three To make a new Thermopylae!
Seite 213 - So idly that rapt fancy deemeth it A metaphor of peace ; — all form a scene Where musing Solitude might love to lift Her soul above this sphere of earthliness, Where Silence undisturbed might watch alone, — So cold, so bright, so still.
Seite 139 - And so I was, which plainly signified That I should snarl, and bite, and play the dog. Then, since the heavens have shap'd my body so, Let hell make crook'd my mind to answer it. I have no brother, I am like no brother; And this word 'love,' which greybeards call divine, Be resident in men like one another, And not in me!