Winning Declamations and how to Speak Them ...: Part I--for Intermediate and Grammar Grades; Part II--for High Schools and CollegesEdwin Du Bois Shurter L. A. Noble, 1917 - 303 pages Over one hundred selections of notable declamations. |
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... keeping at it . People may be born rich , good looking , healthy , but they are not born orators , although the Latin poet said they were . Just as you learn to walk by walking , to swim by swim- ming , so you learn to speak in public ...
... keeping at it . People may be born rich , good looking , healthy , but they are not born orators , although the Latin poet said they were . Just as you learn to walk by walking , to swim by swim- ming , so you learn to speak in public ...
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... Keep in mind that a declamation should be prevailingly serious in tone and delivered for the purpose of convincing or persuading an audience of certain ideas or truths . HINTS ON MEMORIZING There is no royal road to speedy memorizing ...
... Keep in mind that a declamation should be prevailingly serious in tone and delivered for the purpose of convincing or persuading an audience of certain ideas or truths . HINTS ON MEMORIZING There is no royal road to speedy memorizing ...
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... Keep your mind everlastingly on the thing to be done . Every time you find your mind wandering off on a tangent , stop and bring yourself back to your task with a jerk . If you are reading your selection and sud- denly wake up to the ...
... Keep your mind everlastingly on the thing to be done . Every time you find your mind wandering off on a tangent , stop and bring yourself back to your task with a jerk . If you are reading your selection and sud- denly wake up to the ...
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... Keep in View the Selection as a Whole Commit by ideas , sections and selections and not by words , lines and sentences . Strange as it seems , very few people do this without being told . The natural tendency , even after the thought of ...
... Keep in View the Selection as a Whole Commit by ideas , sections and selections and not by words , lines and sentences . Strange as it seems , very few people do this without being told . The natural tendency , even after the thought of ...
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... keep in mind that it is the ideas , and not the mere words , which you are to impress first upon your own mind , and finally upon the minds of your hearers . But words are the medium for expressing the ideas , and in your efforts to get ...
... keep in mind that it is the ideas , and not the mere words , which you are to impress first upon your own mind , and finally upon the minds of your hearers . But words are the medium for expressing the ideas , and in your efforts to get ...
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Page 179 - This mad sea shows his teeth to-night. He curls his lip, he lies in wait, With lifted teeth, as if to bite! Brave Admiral, say but one good word: What shall we do when hope is gone?" The. words leapt like a leaping sword: "Sail on! sail on! sail on! and on!" Then, pale and worn, he kept his deck, And peered through darkness. Ah, that night Of all dark nights! And then a speck — A light! a light! a light! a light! It grew, a starlit flag unfurled! It grew to be Time's burst of dawn. He gained a...
Page 184 - IT was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea That a maiden there lived whom you may know By the name of ANNABEL LEE ; And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me.
Page 48 - Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the Horror of the shade, And yet the menace of the years Finds and shall find me unafraid. It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate : I am the captain of my soul.
Page 152 - Hold on!" If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings — -nor lose the common touch; If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds...
Page 138 - FEAR death ? — to feel the fog in my throat, The mist in my face, When the snows begin, and the blasts denote I am nearing the place, The power of the night, the press of the storm, The post of the foe ; Where he stands, the Arch Fear in a visible form, Yet the strong man must go...
Page 161 - From the silence of sorrowful hours The desolate mourners go, Lovingly laden with flowers Alike for the friend and the foe; — Under the sod and the dew, Waiting the judgment day;— Under the roses, the Blue; Under the lilies, the Gray.
Page 176 - Who knows whither the clouds have fled? In the unscarred heaven they leave no wake; And the eyes forget the tears they have shed, The heart forgets its sorrow and ache...
Page 178 - The stout mate thought of home; a spray Of salt wave washed his swarthy cheek. "What shall I say, brave Adm'r'l, say, If we sight naught but seas at dawn?" "Why, you shall say at break of day: 'Sail on! sail on! sail on! and on!
Page 175 - Whether we look, or whether we listen, We hear life murmur, or see it glisten ; Every clod feels a stir of might, An instinct within it that reaches and towers, And, groping blindly above it for light, Climbs to a soul in grass and flowers.
Page 151 - And treat those two imposters just the same, If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, : And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools.