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, 1856 - 268 pages |
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... appearance of penetrating even further than one which is loud , but badly articulated . Good articulation is not only conducive to the improvement of the voice in clearness and strength , but it is the criterion of a speaker's knowledge ...
... appearance of penetrating even further than one which is loud , but badly articulated . Good articulation is not only conducive to the improvement of the voice in clearness and strength , but it is the criterion of a speaker's knowledge ...
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... " for characters . A constrained attitude must , on all occasions , be studiously avoided . Let the speaker endeavor to act as if there were none present to observe his gestures or appearance : his DESCRIPTION OF STAGE . 43.
... " for characters . A constrained attitude must , on all occasions , be studiously avoided . Let the speaker endeavor to act as if there were none present to observe his gestures or appearance : his DESCRIPTION OF STAGE . 43.
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... appearance : his posi- tions will then be natural ones , and such ever are the most graceful . In gesturing , all angular movements must be dis- carded : whatever the movement , it should be made in a curved line . Be careful not to ...
... appearance : his posi- tions will then be natural ones , and such ever are the most graceful . In gesturing , all angular movements must be dis- carded : whatever the movement , it should be made in a curved line . Be careful not to ...
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... appearance , as if caused by weeping . To sink the eye , tinge the under lid with burnt cork . Now apply a few wrinkles , and the face is " made up . " In representing old men , whiten the eyebrows and beard . A cropped , light ...
... appearance , as if caused by weeping . To sink the eye , tinge the under lid with burnt cork . Now apply a few wrinkles , and the face is " made up . " In representing old men , whiten the eyebrows and beard . A cropped , light ...
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... appearance of a gentleman . ( Aside and looking at his dress . ) A little out at elbows , or so ; but never mind that — and if you would be so condescending- Sponge . Now he's coming to it . ( Aside . ) Dor . As to take a bit of dinner ...
... appearance of a gentleman . ( Aside and looking at his dress . ) A little out at elbows , or so ; but never mind that — and if you would be so condescending- Sponge . Now he's coming to it . ( Aside . ) Dor . As to take a bit of dinner ...
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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 - And let those that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them : for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the mean time, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered: that's villainous; and . shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.
Page 216 - Persians' grave, I could not deem myself a slave. A king sate on the rocky brow Which looks o'er sea-born Salamis ; And ships, by thousands, lay below, And men in nations ; — all were his ! He counted them at break of day — And when the sun set where were they ? And where are they?
Page 135 - 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 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 166 - t. It breaks my chain. I held some slack allegiance till this hour; But now my sword's my own. Smile on, my lords ! I scorn to count what feelings, withered hopes. Strong provocations, bitter, burning wrongs, I have within my heart's hot cells shut up, To leave you in your lazy dignities.
Page 217 - You have the Pyrrhic dance as yet, Where is the Pyrrhic phalanx gone? Of two such lessons, why forget The nobler and the manlier one?
Page 216 - 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 217 - 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 ! What, silent still?
Page 191 - It is to that Union we owe our safety at home and our consideration and dignity abroad. It is to that Union that we are chiefly indebted for whatever makes us most proud of our country. 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.