Choice Readings for Public and Private Entertainments: And for the Use of Schools, Colleges, and Public Readers, with Elocutionary AdviceRobert McLean Cumnock A.C. McClurg and Company, 1898 - 602 pages |
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... Step in the practice is the mastery of the consonantal elements . The correct pronunciation of the vowel sounds secures elegance and refinement in speech , but distinctness in utterance depends entirely upon the rapid and energetic ...
... Step in the practice is the mastery of the consonantal elements . The correct pronunciation of the vowel sounds secures elegance and refinement in speech , but distinctness in utterance depends entirely upon the rapid and energetic ...
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... the formation and execution of these consonantal elements . Practice these sounds until they can be made with precision , rapid- ity , and energy . The Second Step is the mastery of final combinations . 36 CHOICE READINGS .
... the formation and execution of these consonantal elements . Practice these sounds until they can be made with precision , rapid- ity , and energy . The Second Step is the mastery of final combinations . 36 CHOICE READINGS .
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... Step is the mastery of final combinations . This is the most important step in the practice , for it is the final consonants that we fail to articulate . The method of practice is as follows : take for example the final com- bination ld ...
... Step is the mastery of final combinations . This is the most important step in the practice , for it is the final consonants that we fail to articulate . The method of practice is as follows : take for example the final com- bination ld ...
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... Step is the pronunciation of words of many syllables . The object of this step is to distribute the articulative energy so that all the syllables of a long word shall be brought out evenly . Frequently we apply so much force to the ...
... Step is the pronunciation of words of many syllables . The object of this step is to distribute the articulative energy so that all the syllables of a long word shall be brought out evenly . Frequently we apply so much force to the ...
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... Step is reading . Narrative , descriptive , and didactic styles are recom- mended for practice at first . Newspaper articles , essays , conversations , and biographical sketches should be fre- quently read aloud , and at sight . Pursue ...
... Step is reading . Narrative , descriptive , and didactic styles are recom- mended for practice at first . Newspaper articles , essays , conversations , and biographical sketches should be fre- quently read aloud , and at sight . Pursue ...
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Page 274 - TO him who in the love of nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware.
Page 572 - RING out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light : The year is dying in the night ; Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow : The year is going, let him go ; Ring out the false, ring in the true...
Page 164 - Teach us, sprite or bird, What sweet thoughts are thine: I have never heard Praise of love or wine That panted forth a flood of rapture so divine.
Page 304 - Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since; their shores obey The stranger, slave, or savage; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts: not so thou; Unchangeable save to thy wild waves
Page 363 - Came through the jaws of Death Back from the mouth of Hell, — All that was left of them, Left of six hundred. When can their glory fade? O the wild charge they made! All the world wondered. Honor the charge they made! Honor the Light Brigade, Noble six hundred!
Page 568 - Nevermore." "Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend! " I shrieked, upstarting' "Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's Plutonian shore ! Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken ! Leave my loneliness unbroken! quit the bust above my door! Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
Page 567 - Startled at the stillness broken by reply so aptly spoken, "Doubtless," said I, "what it utters is its only stock and store, Caught from some unhappy master whom unmerciful disaster Followed fast and followed faster till his songs one burden bore: Till the dirges of his hope that melancholy burden bore Of 'Never— nevermore.
Page 271 - MY JO. JOHN Anderson my jo, John, When we were first acquent ; Your locks were like the raven, Your bonnie brow was brent ; But now your brow is beld, John Your locks are like the snaw ; But blessings on your frosty pow, John Anderson my jo. John Anderson my jo, John, We clamb the hill thegither ; And mony a canty day, John, We've had wi...
Page 426 - And to the presence in the room he said, "What writest thou?" The vision raised its head, And with a look made of all sweet accord, Answered, "The names of those who love the Lord." "And is mine one?" said Abou. "Nay, not so,
Page 279 - The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere. Heaped in the hollows of the grove, the autumn leaves lie dead; They rustle to the eddying gust, and to the rabbit's tread ; The robin and the wren are flown, and from the shrubs the jay, And from the wood-top calls the crow through all the gloomy day.