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 - 278 pages |
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... hear their sentiments delivered in a bold , sonorous tone , we are , instead , stunned by vociferation , or compelled to tax our hearing in order to comprehend their whispers . Vociferation often carries the day , for all men are not ...
... hear their sentiments delivered in a bold , sonorous tone , we are , instead , stunned by vociferation , or compelled to tax our hearing in order to comprehend their whispers . Vociferation often carries the day , for all men are not ...
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... hear A spirit in your echoes answering d me , ( 5 ) And bid your tenant welcome to his home e * Again ! ( 6 ) O sacred forms , how proud you look ! ( 7 ) How high ye lift your heads into the fsky ! g ( 8 ) How huge you are , ( 9 ) how h ...
... hear A spirit in your echoes answering d me , ( 5 ) And bid your tenant welcome to his home e * Again ! ( 6 ) O sacred forms , how proud you look ! ( 7 ) How high ye lift your heads into the fsky ! g ( 8 ) How huge you are , ( 9 ) how h ...
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... hear , sir - it belongs to me . Mr. B. No - it belongs to both of you ! Hob and Nob . Both of us ? Mr. B. Gentlemen , don't be angry , but you see this gentleman ( pointing to Nob , ) only being at home in the day- time , and that ...
... hear , sir - it belongs to me . Mr. B. No - it belongs to both of you ! Hob and Nob . Both of us ? Mr. B. Gentlemen , don't be angry , but you see this gentleman ( pointing to Nob , ) only being at home in the day- time , and that ...
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... Hear me , Christine . For one whole year , you have been my file - leader , and you were always by my side , whether stretched on the cold sod after a hard march , or in the midst of whizzing bullets from the hot fire of the enemy . I ...
... Hear me , Christine . For one whole year , you have been my file - leader , and you were always by my side , whether stretched on the cold sod after a hard march , or in the midst of whizzing bullets from the hot fire of the enemy . I ...
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... hear ! Rens . ( pacing violently . ) I'll hear nothing . Chris . Renslaus ! -Renslaus ! Rens . Nothing ! Chris . Dear Renslaus ! Rens . ( R. ) Hey ? Go on , Christine , go on . Chris . If it should happen that I am not mistress of my ...
... hear ! Rens . ( pacing violently . ) I'll hear nothing . Chris . Renslaus ! -Renslaus ! Rens . Nothing ! Chris . Dear Renslaus ! Rens . ( R. ) Hey ? Go on , Christine , go on . Chris . If it should happen that I am not mistress of my ...
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Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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?
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 167 - I'll look up ; My fault is past. But O, what form of prayer Can serve my turn ?