Practical Elocution: For Use in Colleges and Schools and by Private StudentsNational School of Elocution and Oratory, 1881 - 219 pages |
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... it shall not only express the idea indicated , but that it shall impress that idea upon the mind and heart . Under this character of D utterance we supplement the form of words with their power Χ PRACTICAL ELOCUTION .
... it shall not only express the idea indicated , but that it shall impress that idea upon the mind and heart . Under this character of D utterance we supplement the form of words with their power Χ PRACTICAL ELOCUTION .
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... heart , -the history of every statue , painting , cathedral or other wonder they show you . They know it and tell it as a parrot would , and if you interrupt and throw them off the track , they have to go back and begin over again . All ...
... heart , -the history of every statue , painting , cathedral or other wonder they show you . They know it and tell it as a parrot would , and if you interrupt and throw them off the track , they have to go back and begin over again . All ...
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... heart to this vote ! Sir , before God I believe the hour is come . My judgment approves this measure ; and my whole heart is in it . All that I have , and all that I am , and all that I hope in this life , I am now ready to stake upon ...
... heart to this vote ! Sir , before God I believe the hour is come . My judgment approves this measure ; and my whole heart is in it . All that I have , and all that I am , and all that I hope in this life , I am now ready to stake upon ...
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... God . — Bible . 3. O lonely tomb in Moab's land ! O dark Beth - peor's hill ! Speak to these curious hearts of ours , And teach them to be still . God hath his mysteries of grace , — Ways that 50 50 PRACTICAL ELOCUTION .
... God . — Bible . 3. O lonely tomb in Moab's land ! O dark Beth - peor's hill ! Speak to these curious hearts of ours , And teach them to be still . God hath his mysteries of grace , — Ways that 50 50 PRACTICAL ELOCUTION .
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... heart in the cold , cold ground . - Edward Brooks . 4 . Vital spark of heavenly flame , Quit , O quit this mortal frame ! Trembling , hoping , lingering , flying , Oh ! the pain , the bliss of dying ! Cease fond Nature , cease thy ...
... heart in the cold , cold ground . - Edward Brooks . 4 . Vital spark of heavenly flame , Quit , O quit this mortal frame ! Trembling , hoping , lingering , flying , Oh ! the pain , the bliss of dying ! Cease fond Nature , cease thy ...
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accent antepenult articulation bitumen black boot-black body boot Breath Sounds charcoal child Circumflex containing additional examples Conversational Slide correct culture degree elementary sounds Elocution Elocution and Oratory Elocutionist's Annual Emphatic Slide EXAMPLES FOR PRACTICE exer Explain and illustrate explain by reading Falsetto faults Gesture give habit HAND PRONE HAND SUPINE heart heaven Henry Ward Beecher human voice Illustrate and explain language lesson LINES-ONE HAND log gum Lord Medium Pitch mind Miscellaneous Vocal Exercise modulations movement muscles natural o'er organs Pause position principles pronounce the word pronunciation proper Public Address pupils reading exercises Recite examples relation School of Elocution selections containing additional sentence sentiment Shakspeare Simple Pure soul speaker speech student syllable teacher TEACHER.-The thee thou Thou art mindful thought tion tone Union Sounds utterance variety verging vocal cords vowel vowel sounds white boot-black Worcester
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Page 125 - In the silence of the night, How we shiver with affright At the melancholy menace of their tone! For every sound that floats From the rust within their throats Is a groan. And the people - ah, the people They that dwell up in the steeple, All alone, And who tolling, tolling, tolling, In that muffled monotone, Feel a glory in so rolling...
Page 125 - And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door; And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming, And the lamp-light o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor: And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor Shall be lifted — nevermore...
Page 26 - A certain man had two sons : and the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me.
Page 125 - When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; What is man, that thou art mindful of him; and the son of man, that thou visitest him? For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honor. Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet...
Page 129 - And he answering said to his father, Lo, these many years do I serve thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy commandment; and yet thou never gavest me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends. But as soon as this thy son was come, which hath devoured thy living with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf.
Page 116 - Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all the earth : make a loud noise, and rejoice, and sing praise.
Page 137 - To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in heaven. As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.
Page 45 - And, sir, where American liberty raised its first voice, and where its youth was nurtured and sustained, there it still lives, in the strength of its manhood and full of its original spirit.
Page 115 - So through the night rode Paul Revere ; And so through the night went his cry of alarm To every Middlesex village and farm, — A cry of defiance and not of fear, A voice in the darkness, a knock at the door, And a word that shall echo forevermore...
Page 65 - Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night, And for the day confined to fast in fires, Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature Are burnt and purged away.