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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... proper to be spoken on , as they are commonly 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 ...
... proper to be spoken on , as they are commonly 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 ...
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... proper understanding of the sentiments uttered , the characters represented , will , it is believed , be found worthy of , and receive their due share of attention . The fair hope and honor- able ambition to be thought worthy to rank ...
... proper understanding of the sentiments uttered , the characters represented , will , it is believed , be found worthy of , and receive their due share of attention . The fair hope and honor- able ambition to be thought worthy to rank ...
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... proper man- agement must be obvious to even the least reflective mind ; for no one can fail to perceive that the understanding is more vividly impressed and influenced by language and tones , than by the countenance or gesture , as the ...
... proper man- agement must be obvious to even the least reflective mind ; for no one can fail to perceive that the understanding is more vividly impressed and influenced by language and tones , than by the countenance or gesture , as the ...
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... proper exercise of the organs of speech . By strictly following this rule , namely , to speak with an expiring ... proper organs , the tongue and the palate ; and by practicing to continue the sound in its proper place , or rather nearer ...
... proper exercise of the organs of speech . By strictly following this rule , namely , to speak with an expiring ... proper organs , the tongue and the palate ; and by practicing to continue the sound in its proper place , or rather nearer ...
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... proper organ . Pronunciation and Accent . Pronunciation is the mode of enouncing certain words and syllables . By accent is understood the stress laid on particu- lar syllables , or in a more extended sense , the tone or expres- sion of ...
... proper organ . Pronunciation and Accent . Pronunciation is the mode of enouncing certain words and syllables . By accent is understood the stress laid on particu- lar syllables , or in a more extended sense , the tone or expres- sion of ...
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Arithmetic articulation bathing machines blessed body Bouncer Brandt CALISTHENICS Carl Carlitz cents Chris Christine close commencing position Coun Curtain Dalton Dame DAVID PATTERSON dear dinner Doric dumb-bells Ellen Enter Exit eyes father Feedwell feel feet fingers foot forward friends Frock coat George GEORGE CROLY gesture give Good-morning Graves Greece ground gymnastic HAMLET hands happy head erect heart Heaven heels Hob and Nob honor Huon John keep knee leap legs letter Liberty look Margate Marinella Measureton motions movement never Normal Readers pause pole poor practice pupil raised Rens Renslaus Richmond hill scene serf shoulders side sizar Soldier speak speaker Sponge sweet TABLEAU TABLEAUX VIVANTS teacher tell thee There's thing thou tion toes turned voice waiter Wideacre word marked young youth Zounds
Popular passages
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 ?