The Exhibition Speaker Containing Farce Dialogue and Tableaux with Exercises for Declamation in Prose and Verse: Also, a Treatise on Oratory and Elocutions, Hints on Dramatic Characters |
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... look to the school - room . Practice in reciting the written thoughts of others will give him confidence to speak his own when needful . Subject to the criticism of rival school - fellows and the strictures of his teachers , he can not ...
... look to the school - room . Practice in reciting the written thoughts of others will give him confidence to speak his own when needful . Subject to the criticism of rival school - fellows and the strictures of his teachers , he can not ...
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... look to hear their sentiments delivered in a bold , sonorous tone , we are , instead , stunned by vociferation , or compelled to tax our hearing in order to comprehend their whispers . Vociferation often carries the day , for all men ...
... look to hear their sentiments delivered in a bold , sonorous tone , we are , instead , stunned by vociferation , or compelled to tax our hearing in order to comprehend their whispers . Vociferation often carries the day , for all men ...
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... looks , and gestures . These are understood by all mankind , however differing in language . When the force of these passions is extreme , words give place to inarticulate sounds ; sighs , mur- murings , in love ; sobs , groans , and ...
... looks , and gestures . These are understood by all mankind , however differing in language . When the force of these passions is extreme , words give place to inarticulate sounds ; sighs , mur- murings , in love ; sobs , groans , and ...
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... looks of the speaker precede his words , so it should be an established maxim , that an orator should tem- per , with becoming modesty , that persuasion and confidence , which ... look more marks th ' internal woe 32 THE EXHIBITION SPEAKER .
... looks of the speaker precede his words , so it should be an established maxim , that an orator should tem- per , with becoming modesty , that persuasion and confidence , which ... look more marks th ' internal woe 32 THE EXHIBITION SPEAKER .
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... look more marks th ' internal woe , Than all the windings of the lengthened oh ! Up to the face the quick sensation flies , And darts its meaning from the speaking eyes ; Love , transport , madness , anger , scorn , despair , And all ...
... look more marks th ' internal woe , Than all the windings of the lengthened oh ! Up to the face the quick sensation flies , And darts its meaning from the speaking eyes ; Love , transport , madness , anger , scorn , despair , And all ...
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Page 192 - When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last time, the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union ; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent ; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood...
Page 133 - I am thy father's spirit; 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.
Page 136 - ... twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure.
Page 192 - Liberty first and Union afterwards ; but everywhere, spread all over in characters of living light, blazing on all its ample folds, as they float over the sea and over the land, and in every wind under the whole heavens, that other sentiment, dear to every true American heart, Liberty and Union, Now and Forever, One and Inseparable.
Page 167 - What if this cursed hand Were thicker than itself with brother's blood, Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens To wash it white as snow?
Page 136 - O, it offends me to the soul, to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings...
Page 133 - May sweep to my revenge. Ghost. I find thee apt ; And duller shouldst thou be than the fat weed That roots itself in ease on Lethe wharf, Wouldst thou not stir in this.
Page 136 - Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus ; but use all gently ; for in the very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say, whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
Page 136 - Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor. Suit the action to the word, the word to the action, with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature.
Page 167 - I'll look up ; My fault is past. But O, what form of prayer Can serve my turn ?