The practical elocutionistPiper, Stephenson and Spence, 1854 - 444 pages |
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... voice , suitable for the expression of certain ideas and passions . The inflections are three in number : -The Acute ( ' ) , the Grave ( ) , and the Circumflex ( ^ ) . The acute accent is used to represent the rising inflection , or ...
... voice , suitable for the expression of certain ideas and passions . The inflections are three in number : -The Acute ( ' ) , the Grave ( ) , and the Circumflex ( ^ ) . The acute accent is used to represent the rising inflection , or ...
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... voice , and with a more rapid utterance than the principal sentence ; a slight pause both before and after the parenthesis , adds to the effect : - 66 If there's a power above us ; ( And that there is , all nature cries aloud Through ...
... voice , and with a more rapid utterance than the principal sentence ; a slight pause both before and after the parenthesis , adds to the effect : - 66 If there's a power above us ; ( And that there is , all nature cries aloud Through ...
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... voices , praises God . " COLERIDGE . INVECTIVE V. WARREN HASTINGS . * * * ' breathing their last and fervent prayer , that the dry earth might not be suffered to drink their blood , but that it might rise up to the throne of God , and ...
... voices , praises God . " COLERIDGE . INVECTIVE V. WARREN HASTINGS . * * * ' breathing their last and fervent prayer , that the dry earth might not be suffered to drink their blood , but that it might rise up to the throne of God , and ...
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... voice than that part of the passage which precedes it . Sublime , grand , and magnificent description in poetry , requires a lower tone of voice , and a sameness nearly approaching to a monotone . SELECTIONS IN VERSE . ADDRESS TO MONT ...
... voice than that part of the passage which precedes it . Sublime , grand , and magnificent description in poetry , requires a lower tone of voice , and a sameness nearly approaching to a monotone . SELECTIONS IN VERSE . ADDRESS TO MONT ...
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... Voice of sweet song ! awake , my heart , awake ! Green vales and icy cliffs , all join my hymn . Thou first and chief , sole sovran of the vale ! O struggling with the darkness all the night ! And visited all night by troops of stars ...
... Voice of sweet song ! awake , my heart , awake ! Green vales and icy cliffs , all join my hymn . Thou first and chief , sole sovran of the vale ! O struggling with the darkness all the night ! And visited all night by troops of stars ...
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The Practical Elocutionist: An Extensive Collection of Recitations, Selected ... Conrad Hume Pinches No preview available - 2017 |
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Acres Adras Æsop arms art thou battle behold blood bosom brave breast brow Brutus Bull Cæsar Caius Verres Casca cheers cried dare dark dead dear death Doge dost doth dread Duke earth enemies eyes fate father fear feel fire Gabor Gaul gentleman give glory hand hath head hear heard heart heaven honour hope HORACE SMITH hour justice king lady Lioni live Lochinvar look lord loud Mark Antony mind ne'er never night noble o'er once patricians peace pray proud R. B. SHERIDAN Rienzi rise Roman Rome Samian wine Scythians Shylock Sicily SIEGENDORF Sir Fret Sir Luc smile Sneer soldiers soul speak Speaker spirit sword tears tell thee thine thou hast thought throne traitor trembling Twas Tyke Venice voice wild word young Zounds
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Page 261 - But yesterday, the word of Caesar might Have stood against the world ; now lies he there, And none so poor to do him reverence.
Page 28 - With a bare bodkin ? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life ; But that the dread of something after death, — The undiscovered country, from whose bourn No traveller returns, — puzzles the will ; And makes us rather bear those ills we have, Than fly to others that we know not of? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all...
Page 35 - HERON'S SONG. O, young Lochinvar is come out of the west, Through all the wide Border his steed was the best, And save his good broadsword he weapons had none ; He rode all unarmed, and he rode all alone. So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war, There never was knight like the young Lochinvar.
Page 154 - Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? Are we disposed to be of the number of those, who having eyes, see not, and having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation?
Page 236 - I remember, when the fight was done, When I was dry with rage and extreme toil, Breathless and faint, leaning upon my sword, Came there a certain lord, neat...
Page 259 - Romans, countrymen, and lovers ! hear me for my cause ; and be silent that you may hear : believe me for mine honour ; and have respect to mine honour, that you may believe : censure me in your wisdom ; and awake your senses, that you may the better judge. If there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of Ctesar's, to him I say, that Brutus' love to Caesar was no less than his.
Page 170 - Rome, thou hast lost the breed of noble bloods ! When went there by an age, since the great flood, But it was famed with more than with one man...
Page 174 - O Cassius, you are yoked with a lamb That carries anger as the flint bears fire ; Who, much enforced, shows a hasty spark, And straight is cold again.
Page 170 - Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus, and we petty men "Walk under his huge legs and peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves.
Page 18 - Ye pine-groves, with your soft and soul-like sounds ! And they too have a voice, yon piles of snow, And in their perilous fall shall thunder, God...