A class-book of elocutionJohnstone and Hunter, 1853 - 360 pages |
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... give , the freedom from interruption , the sacred- ness of the occasion , the importance of the message to be communicated , -all contribute to render him the most favoured of orators . It is gratifying to find that a deeper sense of ...
... give , the freedom from interruption , the sacred- ness of the occasion , the importance of the message to be communicated , -all contribute to render him the most favoured of orators . It is gratifying to find that a deeper sense of ...
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... give his exclusive attention to the principles of modulation they are intended to illustrate . The general Selections will be found sufficiently varied for the farther exemplification of these ; and will , it is hoped , from their ...
... give his exclusive attention to the principles of modulation they are intended to illustrate . The general Selections will be found sufficiently varied for the farther exemplification of these ; and will , it is hoped , from their ...
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... give each of these changes at will , -a power which a correct ear confers ; and he must know the principles by which these changes are regulated , which it is the province of the elocutionist to teach . He must be able to shift the ...
... give each of these changes at will , -a power which a correct ear confers ; and he must know the principles by which these changes are regulated , which it is the province of the elocutionist to teach . He must be able to shift the ...
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... give you , however , a general intimation of what I mean when I apply that term to compositions of genius , I would resemble it to that easy air which so remarkably distinguishes certain persons of a genteel and liberal cast . It ...
... give you , however , a general intimation of what I mean when I apply that term to compositions of genius , I would resemble it to that easy air which so remarkably distinguishes certain persons of a genteel and liberal cast . It ...
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... give it the inflection of the concessive member as expressed in Principle Second ? -the rule of the concession , in all systems of elocution , being that of the rising modulation . But again - The second member of the example , " We ...
... give it the inflection of the concessive member as expressed in Principle Second ? -the rule of the concession , in all systems of elocution , being that of the rising modulation . But again - The second member of the example , " We ...
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action animal appear arms beauty become better called cause character Christian close comes common creation dark death deep earth effect example existence expression face falling father fear feel field flowers follow force give grace hand happy hear heard heart heaven hope hour human important inflection interest kind king land language laws less light live look Lord means merely mind modulation moral nature never o'er object once pass peace person present principle question reader reason requires rest rising round rule scene seems seen sense sentence side soul sound speak spirit stand tell thee things thou thought tion true truth turn virtue voice waters whole young
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Page 45 - Honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on ? how then ? Can honour set to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound ? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then ? No. What is honour? A word. What is in that word, honour? What is that honour? Air. A trim reckoning ! Who hath it? He that died o
Page 283 - Lands intersected by a narrow frith Abhor each other. Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one.
Page 330 - Seems, madam! nay, it is; I know not seems. 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black, Nor windy suspiration of forc'd breath, No, nor the fruitful river in the eye.
Page 114 - The depth saith, It is not in me; and the sea saith, It is not with me. It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof.
Page 265 - Is it far away in some region old, Where the rivers wander o'er sands of gold ? Where the burning rays of the ruby shine, And the diamond lights up the secret mine, And the pearl gleams forth from the coral strand Is it there, sweet mother, that better land ? Not there ; not there, my child.
Page 217 - 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.
Page 275 - Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow...
Page 94 - tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them ? To die to sleep No more ; and, by a sleep, to say we end The heartache, and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die to sleep ; To sleep ! perchance to dream : ay, there's the rub ; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal...
Page 208 - There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar...
Page 299 - Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.