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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... things which pass in the mind of man besides ideas , and he is not wholly made up of intellect , but , on the contrary , the passions , and the fancy compose a great part of his complicated frame — as the operations of these are ...
... things which pass in the mind of man besides ideas , and he is not wholly made up of intellect , but , on the contrary , the passions , and the fancy compose a great part of his complicated frame — as the operations of these are ...
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... things ; " not given to any personal excess . 2. The voice should not be exerted after a full meal . 3. The voice should not be urged beyond its strength , nor strained to its utmost pitch without intermission . Frequent change of pitch ...
... things ; " not given to any personal excess . 2. The voice should not be exerted after a full meal . 3. The voice should not be urged beyond its strength , nor strained to its utmost pitch without intermission . Frequent change of pitch ...
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... things , ( 4 ) whose essence filleth all dspace , ( 5 ) the immensity of the universe , ( 6 ) regardeth fus , ( 7 ) the creatures of his creation , his g bounty , ( 8 ) not as objects to be cast h away ( 9 ) or repelled from his ...
... things , ( 4 ) whose essence filleth all dspace , ( 5 ) the immensity of the universe , ( 6 ) regardeth fus , ( 7 ) the creatures of his creation , his g bounty , ( 8 ) not as objects to be cast h away ( 9 ) or repelled from his ...
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... things that a tower , ( 2 ) that bshine ; ( 3 ) whose smile C Makes glad , ( 4 ) whose frown is d terrible- ( 5 ) whose forms , Robed or eunrobed , do all the impress wear ( 6 ) Of awe f divine . ( 7 ) Ye guards of gliberty , ( 8 ) I'm ...
... things that a tower , ( 2 ) that bshine ; ( 3 ) whose smile C Makes glad , ( 4 ) whose frown is d terrible- ( 5 ) whose forms , Robed or eunrobed , do all the impress wear ( 6 ) Of awe f divine . ( 7 ) Ye guards of gliberty , ( 8 ) I'm ...
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... thing in the world to keep people waiting for their dinner , when , perhaps , their appetites are as keen as the carving - knife . Sponge , ( aside . ) I know mine is . ( Aloud . ) My dear sir , make no apology : I know the horror of ...
... thing in the world to keep people waiting for their dinner , when , perhaps , their appetites are as keen as the carving - knife . Sponge , ( aside . ) I know mine is . ( Aloud . ) My dear sir , make no apology : I know the horror of ...
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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 ?