A System of Elocution: With Special Reference to Gesture, to the Treatment of Stammering, and Defective Articulation ...E.H. Butler & Company, 1853 - 364 pages |
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Page 72
... foot should be from two to four inches in advance of the left , and the toes turned a little outwards ; meanwhile the body should be principally sustained by the left foot . The next best is the erect sitting posture , in which the ...
... foot should be from two to four inches in advance of the left , and the toes turned a little outwards ; meanwhile the body should be principally sustained by the left foot . The next best is the erect sitting posture , in which the ...
Page 77
... foot ( advanced before the eft about the breadth of the foot ) , orms , with the left , an angle of about seventy - five degrees , as may be seen in the plan . The lines which form this angle , passing through the length of each foot ...
... foot ( advanced before the eft about the breadth of the foot ) , orms , with the left , an angle of about seventy - five degrees , as may be seen in the plan . The lines which form this angle , passing through the length of each foot ...
Page 78
... Foot , noted R. 2. ( See Fig.16 . ) In this position , the right foot sliding forward about half its length , receives the principal weight of the body , the left being raised , and turning as far inwards towards the right ; the ball of ...
... Foot , noted R. 2. ( See Fig.16 . ) In this position , the right foot sliding forward about half its length , receives the principal weight of the body , the left being raised , and turning as far inwards towards the right ; the ball of ...
Page 79
... Foot , noted L. 2. ( See Fig . 18 ) . This position of the left foot is , in all respects , analogous to the second position of the right ; and , in the figure , it is represented in the same manner , only reversed . Figure 19 is a ...
... Foot , noted L. 2. ( See Fig . 18 ) . This position of the left foot is , in all respects , analogous to the second position of the right ; and , in the figure , it is represented in the same manner , only reversed . Figure 19 is a ...
Page 80
... foot . The left position in front , noted L. F. , is when the body is supported on the right foot . The position in front is used when persons are addressed alternately , on either side , whilst the audi- tors are in front , as on the ...
... foot . The left position in front , noted L. F. , is when the body is supported on the right foot . The position in front is used when persons are addressed alternately , on either side , whilst the audi- tors are in front , as on the ...
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Page 174 - The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despised love, the law's delay, The insolence of office and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin?
Page 209 - Never, never more, shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom. The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone...
Page 336 - Netherby gate, The bride had consented, the gallant came late : For a laggard in love, and a dastard in war, Was to wed the fair Ellen of brave Lochinvar. So boldly he...
Page 337 - So stately his form, and so lovely her face, That never a hall such a galliard did grace, While her mother did fret, and her father did fume, And the bridegroom stood dangling his bonnet and plume ; And the bride-maidens whispered, " 'Twere better by far To have matched our fair cousin with young Lochinvar.
Page 302 - Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind, The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of luxury and pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame.
Page 282 - By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet nor in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him.
Page 179 - I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute ; From the centre all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute.
Page 241 - TO him who in the love of nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware.
Page 336 - Eske river where ford there was none; But, ere he alighted at Netherby gate, The bride had consented, the gallant came late; For a laggard in love, and a dastard in war, Was to wed the fair Ellen of brave Lochinvar.
Page 227 - I call upon the honour of your lordships to reverence the dignity of your ancestors, and to maintain your own. I call upon the spirit and humanity of my country to vindicate the national character.