The Exhibition Speaker: Containing Farces, Dialogues, and Tableaux : with Exercises for Declamation in Prose and Verse, Also a Treatise on Oratory and Elocution, Hints on Dramatic Characters, Costumes, Position on the Stage, Making Up, Etc., Etc. : with IllustrationsSheldon, Blakeman & Company, 1867 - 268 pages |
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... attention . The fair hope and honor- able ambition to be thought worthy to rank with those whose time and labor have been devoted to the encouragement and development of our native eloquence have urged the compiler to proceed in his ...
... attention . The fair hope and honor- able ambition to be thought worthy to rank with those whose time and labor have been devoted to the encouragement and development of our native eloquence have urged the compiler to proceed in his ...
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... attention . The ancients , particularly the Greeks and Romans , seem to have been fully conscious of the great benefits resulting from a close attention to , and practice of such rules as are fitted to advance the orator in his ...
... attention . The ancients , particularly the Greeks and Romans , seem to have been fully conscious of the great benefits resulting from a close attention to , and practice of such rules as are fitted to advance the orator in his ...
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... attention a speaker's sentiments may be , if the words used in delivering them are hurried over precip- itately , drawled , or allowed to slip out carelessly , their effect will be dissipated and entirely lost . There has been too ...
... attention a speaker's sentiments may be , if the words used in delivering them are hurried over precip- itately , drawled , or allowed to slip out carelessly , their effect will be dissipated and entirely lost . There has been too ...
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... attention to the cultivation of the voice . Often when we look to 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 ...
... attention to the cultivation of the voice . Often when we look to 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 ...
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... attention . By due exertions in this way , though he may not absolutely improve the natural qualities of his voice , he will give them the highest effect of which they are capable : With certain 20 THE EXHIBITION SPEAKER . The ...
... attention . By due exertions in this way , though he may not absolutely improve the natural qualities of his voice , he will give them the highest effect of which they are capable : With certain 20 THE EXHIBITION SPEAKER . The ...
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Page 134 - ... 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 189 - 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 190 - 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 ! Mr.
Page 135 - 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 134 - ... 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 131 - 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 214 - Islands of the Blest'. The mountains look on Marathon, And Marathon looks on the sea. And musing there an hour alone, I dreamed that Greece might still be free, For standing on the Persians' grave, I could not deem myself a slave.
Page 215 - Must we but blush?— our fathers bled. Earth! render back from out thy breast A remnant of our Spartan dead! Of the three hundred, grant but three To make a new Thermopylae!
Page 213 - So idly that rapt fancy deemeth it A metaphor of peace ; — all form a scene Where musing Solitude might love to lift Her soul above this sphere of earthliness, Where Silence undisturbed might watch alone, — So cold, so bright, so still.
Page 139 - And so I was, which plainly signified That I should snarl, and bite, and play the dog. Then, since the heavens have shap'd my body so, Let hell make crook'd my mind to answer it. I have no brother, I am like no brother; And this word 'love,' which greybeards call divine, Be resident in men like one another, And not in me!