Studies in Elocution: A Wide and Choice Selection of Poetry and Prose for Reading and Recitation; with an Introductory Essay on the Art of Elocution and a Scheme of Vocal Exercises for Public Speakers, and for Use in Colleges, Schools and Elocution ClassesG. Philip & Son, 1908 - 387 pages |
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Page 282
... Leicester by Varney . The pride of Leicester was obliged to give way to court forms , and with a grave and formal inclination of the head , he paused until his rival , a peer of older creation than his own , passed before him . Sussex ...
... Leicester by Varney . The pride of Leicester was obliged to give way to court forms , and with a grave and formal inclination of the head , he paused until his rival , a peer of older creation than his own , passed before him . Sussex ...
Page 283
... Leicester , who had stood aloof for a moment to mark the reception of Sussex ; and , advancing to the entrance , he was about to pass on , when Varney , who was close behind him , dressed out in the utmost bravery of the day , was ...
... Leicester , who had stood aloof for a moment to mark the reception of Sussex ; and , advancing to the entrance , he was about to pass on , when Varney , who was close behind him , dressed out in the utmost bravery of the day , was ...
Page 284
... Leicester , who has publicly menaced me with his displeasure , and treated me with dis- paraging terms , because I denied entry to one of his followers , in obedience to your Grace's precise orders ? " The spirit of Henry VIII . was ...
... Leicester , who has publicly menaced me with his displeasure , and treated me with dis- paraging terms , because I denied entry to one of his followers , in obedience to your Grace's precise orders ? " The spirit of Henry VIII . was ...
Page 285
... Leicester should say in what I have , as he terms it , wronged him , since my tongue never spoke the word that I would not willingly justify either on foot or horseback . " " And for me , " said Leicester , " always under my gracious ...
... Leicester should say in what I have , as he terms it , wronged him , since my tongue never spoke the word that I would not willingly justify either on foot or horseback . " " And for me , " said Leicester , " always under my gracious ...
Page 286
... Leicester , I bid you once more to join hands - and , ' S death ! he that refuses shall taste of our Tower fare ere he see our face again . I will lower your proud hearts ere we part , and that I promise , on the word of a Queen ...
... Leicester , I bid you once more to join hands - and , ' S death ! he that refuses shall taste of our Tower fare ere he see our face again . I will lower your proud hearts ere we part , and that I promise , on the word of a Queen ...
Common terms and phrases
Abergavenny Amyas bell Ben-Hur boat Bob-o'-link breath Bregenz Brutus C¿sar chee child cousin dear death door eyes face Falstaff farrier father fear fell fire Florac gentleman George give grace Gregsbury hand hath head hear heard heart heaven Helen honour hope king lady laugh Leicester lifeboat lips live look Lord Macey madam Malaprop Mark Antony master mercy merry Messala morning never night noble o'er once Pickwick poor Poyser pray Prince H printed as Prose Pugstyles Pullemout Queen replied Robin Hood's Bay Rock of Ages round Saint Pancras Sandalphon seemed shouted Shylock sing smile soul speak starry night stood Sussex sweet tell thee there's thing thou thought told Tressilian turned twas Varney Verse printed voice Whitby Widow Jones wife wind Winkle words young
Popular passages
Page 9 - Cowards die many times before their deaths ; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.
Page 14 - 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 39 - Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue : but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines.
Page 19 - Julius bleed for justice' sake ? What villain touched his body, that did stab, And not for justice ? What, shall one of us, That struck the foremost man of all this world, But for supporting robbers, shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes, And sell the mighty space of our large honours For so much trash as may be grasped thus ? I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, Than such a Roman.
Page 87 - And say — to-morrow is Saint Crispian : Then will he strip his sleeve, and show his scars, And say, these wounds I had on Crispin's day. Old men forget ; yet all shall be forgot, But he'll remember, with advantages, What feats he did that day : Then shall our names. Familiar in...
Page 35 - Cromwell, I did not think to shed a tear In all my miseries ; but thou hast forced me, Out of thy honest truth, to play the woman. Let's dry our eyes : And thus far hear me, Cromwell...
Page 40 - ... 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. Now this overdone or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve ; the censure of the which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theatre of others.
Page 1 - The quality of mercy is not strain'd, It droppeth, as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath : it is twice bless'd ; It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes : 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown; His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings ; But mercy is above this sceptred sway, It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself;...
Page 2 - Though justice be thy plea, consider this, That, in the course of justice, none of us Should see salvation: we do pray for mercy; And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy.
Page viii - Their dearest action in the tented field ; And little of this great world can I speak, More than pertains to feats of broil and battle ; And therefore little shall I grace my cause, In speaking for myself : Yet, by your gracious patience...