The new hand-book of elocutionPorteus Brothers, 1873 - 324 pages |
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... Speaking from experience , the Compiler can affirm that however useful certain Elocutionary Problems ( with Phrases no less Problematical ) may have been and are to some , they have never in one single instance helped him or any one of ...
... Speaking from experience , the Compiler can affirm that however useful certain Elocutionary Problems ( with Phrases no less Problematical ) may have been and are to some , they have never in one single instance helped him or any one of ...
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... speaking we may seem too just . In vain for them the pleasing measure flows , Whose recitation runs it all to prose ; Repeating what the poet sets not down , The verb disjoining from its friendly noun , While pause and break and ...
... speaking we may seem too just . In vain for them the pleasing measure flows , Whose recitation runs it all to prose ; Repeating what the poet sets not down , The verb disjoining from its friendly noun , While pause and break and ...
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... speaking eyes : Love , transport , madness , anger , scorn , despair , And all the passions , all the soul is there . -Lloyd . THE PRAIRIE ON FIRE . THE sleep of the fugitives lasted for several hours . The trapper was the first to ...
... speaking eyes : Love , transport , madness , anger , scorn , despair , And all the passions , all the soul is there . -Lloyd . THE PRAIRIE ON FIRE . THE sleep of the fugitives lasted for several hours . The trapper was the first to ...
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... speak so loud : Repair thy wit , good youth ; or it will fall To cureless ruin . - I stand here for law . Duke . And here , I take it , is the doctor come.— [ Enter PORTIA , dressed like a doctor of laws . ] Give me your hand : Came you ...
... speak so loud : Repair thy wit , good youth ; or it will fall To cureless ruin . - I stand here for law . Duke . And here , I take it , is the doctor come.— [ Enter PORTIA , dressed like a doctor of laws . ] Give me your hand : Came you ...
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... speak , Methinks I see me at the altar - foot ! Her hand fast lock'd in mine ! -the ring put on ! My wedding - bell rings merry in my ear ; And round me throng glad tongues that give me joy To be the bridegroom of so fair a bride ! Wal ...
... speak , Methinks I see me at the altar - foot ! Her hand fast lock'd in mine ! -the ring put on ! My wedding - bell rings merry in my ear ; And round me throng glad tongues that give me joy To be the bridegroom of so fair a bride ! Wal ...
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Page 26 - 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 265 - Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. "Forward, the Light Brigade! Charge for the guns!" he said. Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. "Forward, the Light Brigade!
Page 268 - Cameron's gathering" rose ! The war-note of Lochiel, which Albyn's hills Have heard, and heard, too, have her Saxon foes : — How in the noon of night that pibroch thrills, Savage and shrill ! But with the breath which fills Their...
Page 232 - And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me. I was a child and she was a child, In this kingdom by the sea: But we loved with a love that was more than love I and my ANNABEL LEE; With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven Coveted her and me. And this was the reason that, long ago, In this kingdom by the sea...
Page 134 - ... rim. Then I cast loose my buffcoat, each holster let fall, Shook off both my jack-boots, let go belt and all, Stood up in the stirrup, leaned, patted his ear, Called my Roland his pet-name, my horse without peer ; Clapped my hands, laughed and sang, any noise, bad or good, Till at length into Aix Roland galloped and stood. And all I remember is, friends flocking round As I sat with his head 'twixt my knees on the ground; And no voice but was praising this Roland of mine, As I poured down his...
Page 234 - ACCENT of Christians nor the GAIT of Christian — PAGAN — nor MAN -have so STRUTTED and BELLOWED -that I have thought some of Nature's JOURNEYMEN had made men and not made them WELL they imitated humanity so ABOMINABLY...
Page 273 - With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild: then silent night, With this her solemn bird, and this fair moon, And these the gems of heaven, her starry train...
Page 268 - And Ardennes waves above them her green leaves, Dewy with nature's tear-drops, as they pass, Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave — alas ! Ere evening to be trodden like the grass...
Page 62 - For saddle-tree scarce reached had he, His journey to begin, When, turning round his head, he saw Three customers come in. So down he came ; for loss of time, Although it grieved him sore, Yet loss of pence, full well he knew, Would trouble him much more. 'Twas long before the customers Were suited to their mind, When Betty screaming came down stairs, " The wine is left behind ! " " Good lack ! " quoth he ; " yet bring it me, My leathern belt likewise, In which I bear my trusty sword When I do exercise.
Page 296 - The boy ! — oh, where was he ? Ask of the winds, that far around With fragments strewed the sea, — With mast, and helm, and pennon fair, That well had borne their part ; But the noblest thing that perished there, Was that young faithful heart ! THOMAS CAMPBELL.