The Exhibition Speaker: Containing Farces, Dialogues, and Tableaux, with Exercises for Declamation in Prose and VerseSheldon & Company, 1855 - 268 pages |
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... close attention to , and practice of such rules as are fitted to advance the orator in his profession . Their schools for the study of eloquence were frequented by students from all parts of the known world . They established prizes to ...
... close attention to , and practice of such rules as are fitted to advance the orator in his profession . Their schools for the study of eloquence were frequented by students from all parts of the known world . They established prizes to ...
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... close con- versation . 3. The ordinary pitch or middle , suited to general conver sation . 4. The elevated pitch , used only in earnest argument . 5. The extreme , used in violent passion . The lungs are to be kept always , to a certain ...
... close con- versation . 3. The ordinary pitch or middle , suited to general conver sation . 4. The elevated pitch , used only in earnest argument . 5. The extreme , used in violent passion . The lungs are to be kept always , to a certain ...
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... coat , is discovered looking at himself in a small looking - glass , which he holds in his hands . Hob should wear a close - cropped , light - colored wig . Hob . I've half a mind to register an oath HOB AND NOB . 67 Hob and Nob,
... coat , is discovered looking at himself in a small looking - glass , which he holds in his hands . Hob should wear a close - cropped , light - colored wig . Hob . I've half a mind to register an oath HOB AND NOB . 67 Hob and Nob,
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... receipt for the last week's rent , sir , - Nob , ( produces a paper , and holds it close to Tob's face . Ditto , sir ! Hob , ( suddenly shouting . ) Thieves ? Nob . Murder ! Hob and Nob . Mr. Bouncer ! ( Each runing HOB AND ( B. 75.
... receipt for the last week's rent , sir , - Nob , ( produces a paper , and holds it close to Tob's face . Ditto , sir ! Hob , ( suddenly shouting . ) Thieves ? Nob . Murder ! Hob and Nob . Mr. Bouncer ! ( Each runing HOB AND ( B. 75.
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... close to Nob's face . ) Nob . An insult to my very face - under my very nose ! ( Rubbing it . ) You know the consequences , sir , -instant satisfaction , sir ! Hob . With all my heart , sir . Mr. Bouncer Nob . Mr. Bouncer ! Mr. BOUNCER ...
... close to Nob's face . ) Nob . An insult to my very face - under my very nose ! ( Rubbing it . ) You know the consequences , sir , -instant satisfaction , sir ! Hob . With all my heart , sir . Mr. Bouncer Nob . Mr. Bouncer ! Mr. BOUNCER ...
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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 ! Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the Republic, now known and honored throughout the earth, still full high advanced, its arms and trophies streaming in their original...
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 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; who, for the most part, are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows, and noise: I would have such a fellow whipped for o'erdoing Termagant; it out-herods Herod: Pray you, avoid it.
Page 191 - 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.
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 191 - I have not allowed myself, sir, to look beyond the Union to see what might lie hidden in the dark recess behind. I have not coolly weighed the chances of preserving liberty when the bonds that unite us together shall be broken asunder. I have not. accustomed myself to hang over the precipice of disunion to see whether, with my short sight, I can fathom the depth of the abyss below...
Page 137 - 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...
Page 136 - ... 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.
Page 133 - But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison-house, I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, : Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres, Thy knotted and combined locks to part And each particular hair to stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine : But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood.
Page 134 - Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast, With witchcraft of his wit, with traitorous gifts, — O wicked wit and gifts, that have the power So to seduce! — won to his shameful lust The will of my most seeming-virtuous queen: 0 Hamlet, what a falling-off was there!