Practical Elocution: For Use in Colleges and Schools and by Private StudentsNational School of Elocution and Oratory, 1881 - 219 pages |
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Page ix
... The study of Elocution and Oratory was pursued to a very high degree by the ancients , and is therefore an old study . It was , however , so nearly lost as a distinctive ... the living presence of the teacher . The theory of Elocution can ix.
... The study of Elocution and Oratory was pursued to a very high degree by the ancients , and is therefore an old study . It was , however , so nearly lost as a distinctive ... the living presence of the teacher . The theory of Elocution can ix.
Page x
... the teacher . The theory of Elocution can no more produce good readers and speakers than the theory of music will make good singers or experts on the instrument ; yet correct principles may so direct the student away from error , and ...
... the teacher . The theory of Elocution can no more produce good readers and speakers than the theory of music will make good singers or experts on the instrument ; yet correct principles may so direct the student away from error , and ...
Page xi
... the form of words with their power , investing the mere passive clay with the life - giving principle which shall ... teacher and student has been directed prominently to the study of natural speech as revealed by Conversation . It is ...
... the form of words with their power , investing the mere passive clay with the life - giving principle which shall ... teacher and student has been directed prominently to the study of natural speech as revealed by Conversation . It is ...
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... THE OUTLINE . CONVERSATION . The i . quiry leads to Conversation as the natural germ , which , properly cultivated ... teacher will desire processes of imparting successfully the science art which he has acquired , and will ask : How ...
... THE OUTLINE . CONVERSATION . The i . quiry leads to Conversation as the natural germ , which , properly cultivated ... teacher will desire processes of imparting successfully the science art which he has acquired , and will ask : How ...
Page 75
... a mere matter of convenience in our classes as adapt- ed to the length of the recitations . I. TO THE TEACHER . - In the spelling exercises , have the class pronounce the word mat in a firm conversational tone . Then , prolong the word ...
... a mere matter of convenience in our classes as adapt- ed to the length of the recitations . I. TO THE TEACHER . - In the spelling exercises , have the class pronounce the word mat in a firm conversational tone . Then , prolong the word ...
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accent antepenult articulation bitumen black boot-black body boot Breath Sounds charcoal child Circumflex containing additional examples Conversational Slide correct culture degree elementary sounds Elocution Elocution and Oratory Elocutionist's Annual Emphatic Slide EXAMPLES FOR PRACTICE exer Explain and illustrate explain by reading Falsetto faults Full Force Gesture give habit HAND PRONE HAND SUPINE heart heaven Henry Ward Beecher human voice Illustrate and explain language lesson LINES-ONE HAND log gum Lord Medium Pitch mind Miscellaneous Vocal Exercise modulations movement muscles natural o'er organs Pause position principles pronounce the word pronunciation proper Public Address pupils reading exercises Recite examples relation School of Elocution selections containing additional sentence sentiment Shakspeare Simple Pure soul speaker speech spirit student syllable teacher TEACHER.-The thee thistle thou Thou art mindful tion tone Union Sounds utterance variety verging vocal cords vowel vowel sounds white boot-black Worcester
Popular passages
Page 125 - In the silence of the night, How we shiver with affright At the melancholy menace of their tone! For every sound that floats From the rust within their throats Is a groan. And the people - ah, the people They that dwell up in the steeple, All alone, And who tolling, tolling, tolling, In that muffled monotone, Feel a glory in so rolling...
Page 125 - And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door; And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming, And the lamp-light o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor: And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor Shall be lifted — nevermore...
Page 26 - A certain man had two sons : and the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me.
Page 125 - When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; What is man, that thou art mindful of him; and the son of man, that thou visitest him? For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honor. Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet...
Page 129 - And he answering said to his father, Lo, these many years do I serve thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy commandment; and yet thou never gavest me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends. But as soon as this thy son was come, which hath devoured thy living with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf.
Page 116 - Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all the earth : make a loud noise, and rejoice, and sing praise.
Page 137 - To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in heaven. As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.
Page 45 - And, sir, where American liberty raised its first voice, and where its youth was nurtured and sustained, there it still lives, in the strength of its manhood and full of its original spirit.
Page 115 - So through the night rode Paul Revere ; And so through the night went his cry of alarm To every Middlesex village and farm, — A cry of defiance and not of fear, A voice in the darkness, a knock at the door, And a word that shall echo forevermore...
Page 65 - 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.