The American Elocutionist: Comprising "Lessons in Enunciation', "Exercises in Elocution", and "Rudiments of Gesture", with a Selection of New Pieces for Practice in Reading and Declamation... : Designed for Colleges, Professional Institutions, Academies and Common SchoolsJenks and Palmer, 1844 - 380 страници |
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... verse . purest forms of poetry , become , when deprived of this aid , nothing but awkward prose . A just and delicate observance of the effect of metre , on the other hand , is one of the surest means of imparting that inspira- tion of ...
... verse . purest forms of poetry , become , when deprived of this aid , nothing but awkward prose . A just and delicate observance of the effect of metre , on the other hand , is one of the surest means of imparting that inspira- tion of ...
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... verse itself : a chicken , roosting upon its perch , with the spheres revolving in the firmament . " Lively . " In thy right hand lead with thee The mountain nymph , sweet Liberty ; And , if I give thee honor due , Mirth , admit me of ...
... verse itself : a chicken , roosting upon its perch , with the spheres revolving in the firmament . " Lively . " In thy right hand lead with thee The mountain nymph , sweet Liberty ; And , if I give thee honor due , Mirth , admit me of ...
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... verse , appropriate inflections are the only means of avoiding the two great evils of monotony and chant . Reading , without inflections , becomes lifeless , as may be observed in what is usually called a ' school- boy tone . ' This ...
... verse , appropriate inflections are the only means of avoiding the two great evils of monotony and chant . Reading , without inflections , becomes lifeless , as may be observed in what is usually called a ' school- boy tone . ' This ...
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... verse or of prose , require the rising inflection , even where the sense is complete , as in the following instances : " For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn , Or busy housewife ply her evening care ; No children run to lisp ...
... verse or of prose , require the rising inflection , even where the sense is complete , as in the following instances : " For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn , Or busy housewife ply her evening care ; No children run to lisp ...
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... verse or of prose , —has the rising inflection . For examples see as above , and add the following : " When the gay and smiling aspect of things , has begun to leave the passages to a man's heart thus 88 . ELOCUTIONIST .
... verse or of prose , —has the rising inflection . For examples see as above , and add the following : " When the gay and smiling aspect of things , has begun to leave the passages to a man's heart thus 88 . ELOCUTIONIST .
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Страница 183 - On Linden, when the sun was low, All bloodless lay the untrodden snow ; And dark as winter was the flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly. But Linden saw another sight, When the drum beat at dead of night, Commanding fires of death to light The darkness of her scenery.
Страница 99 - And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering : but unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect.
Страница 180 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty, thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair; thyself how wondrous then ! Unspeakable, who sitt'st above these heavens, To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.
Страница 184 - Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied, for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant* sung; Silence was pleased: now...
Страница 189 - How fleet is a glance of the mind ! Compared with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-winged arrows of light When I think of my own native land In a moment I seem to be there; But alas! recollection at hand Soon hurries me back to despair.
Страница 106 - Tis morn, but scarce yon level sun Can pierce the war-clouds, rolling dun, Where furious Frank and fiery Hun Shout in their sulphurous canopy. The combat deepens. On, ye brave, Who rush to glory, or the grave ! Wave, Munich ! all thy banners wave, And charge with all thy chivalry.
Страница 75 - For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn. Or busy housewife ply her evening care; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share.
Страница 196 - The bell strikes one. We take no note of time, But from its loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the, knell of my departed hours : Where are they?
Страница 76 - And in thy right hand lead with thee, The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty; And if I give thee honour due, Mirth, admit me of thy crew To live with her, and live with thee, In unreproved pleasures free...
Страница 158 - Wha will be a traitor knave ? Wha can fill a coward's grave ? Wha sae base as be a Slave ? Let him turn and flee ! Wha for Scotland's King and Law, Freedom's sword will strongly draw ; Free-man stand, or Free-man fa', Let him on wi