Practical Elocution: Containing Illustrations of the Principles of Reading and Public Speaking ...Merriam, Moore, 1846 - 350 pages |
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... beauty of expression , in reading , conversation , and public speaking . If several years experience as a teacher of elocution , afford the means of judg- ing , the matter which it contains will be beneficial to all who are desirous of ...
... beauty of expression , in reading , conversation , and public speaking . If several years experience as a teacher of elocution , afford the means of judg- ing , the matter which it contains will be beneficial to all who are desirous of ...
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... beauty , variety , and effect . And it requires a speaker to impress the exact lineaments of nature upon his sentiments . In order to read or speak well , the articulation must be correct and elegant , and the voice completely under the ...
... beauty , variety , and effect . And it requires a speaker to impress the exact lineaments of nature upon his sentiments . In order to read or speak well , the articulation must be correct and elegant , and the voice completely under the ...
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... beauty : " Like fabled gods , their mighty war Shook realms and nations in its jar ; Beneath each banner proud to stand , Looked- up , the noblest of the land . " But the voices of our distinguished orators and statesmen , will , ere ...
... beauty : " Like fabled gods , their mighty war Shook realms and nations in its jar ; Beneath each banner proud to stand , Looked- up , the noblest of the land . " But the voices of our distinguished orators and statesmen , will , ere ...
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... beauty immortal awakes from the tomb . " " Yet a few days , and the all - be - hold - ing Sun shall see no more , in all his course . ' " Oh ! flowers , that never will in other climate grow . " 46 High on a throne of royal state ...
... beauty immortal awakes from the tomb . " " Yet a few days , and the all - be - hold - ing Sun shall see no more , in all his course . ' " Oh ! flowers , that never will in other climate grow . " 46 High on a throne of royal state ...
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... beauty , ruled the world . " - Rienzi . Mark Antony , in his oration over Cæsar's body , with a de- sign to excite odium against the murderers , repeatedly calls them , honorable men . The shrewdness of his speech consists in the art ...
... beauty , ruled the world . " - Rienzi . Mark Antony , in his oration over Cæsar's body , with a de- sign to excite odium against the murderers , repeatedly calls them , honorable men . The shrewdness of his speech consists in the art ...
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Page 111 - I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts; I am no orator, as Brutus is, But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man, That love my friend; and that they know full well That gave me public leave to speak of him. For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech, To stir men's blood: I only speak right on...
Page 142 - Ah ! then and there was hurrying to and fro, And gathering tears, and tremblings of distress, And cheeks all pale, which but an hour ago Blushed at the praise of their own loveliness; And there were sudden partings, such as press The life from out young hearts, and choking sighs Which ne'er might be repeated...
Page 105 - Join voices, all ye living Souls : Ye Birds, That singing up to Heaven-gate ascend, Bear on your wings and in your notes his praise. Ye that in waters glide, and ye that walk The earth, and stately tread, or lowly creep ; Witness if I be silent, morn or even, To hill, or valley, fountain, or fresh shade, Made vocal by my song, and taught his praise. Hail, universal Lord, be bounteous still To give us only good ; and if the night Have gather'd aught of evil, or conceal'd, Disperse it, as now light...
Page 111 - That gave me public leave to speak of him: For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech, To stir men's blood: I only speak right on; I tell you that which you yourselves do know; Show you sweet Caesar's wounds, poor poor dumb mouths, And bid them speak for me: but were I Brutus, And Brutus Antony, there were an Antony Would ruffle up your spirits and put a tongue In every wound of Caesar that should move The stones of Rome to rise and mutiny.
Page 126 - Cromwell, I did not think to shed a tear In all my miseries ; but thou hast forced me, Out of thy honest truth, to play the woman. Let's dry our eyes : and thus far hear me, Cromwell ; And, — when I am forgotten, as I shall be ; And sleep in dull cold marble, where no mention Of me more must be heard of, — say, I taught thee...
Page 294 - When thoughts Of the last bitter hour come like a blight Over thy spirit, and sad images Of the stern agony and shroud and pall And breathless darkness and the narrow house Make thee to shudder and grow sick at heart...
Page 348 - And surely your blood of your lives will I require : at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man ; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man. Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed : for in the image of God made he man.
Page 304 - If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union, or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated, where reason is left free to combat it.
Page 154 - Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests ; which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates ; but parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole ; where, not local purposes, not local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole.
Page 111 - And will, no doubt, with reasons answer you. I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts. I am no orator, as Brutus is, But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man, That love my friend; and that they know full well That gave me public leave to speak of him.