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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Page 178
... toes at the sight of the cratur . And is it a " Bloomer , " ye ' z are ? Negro . Yes sah , she's a " Bloomer , " sah - a regular Bloomer ! Yah , yah , yah ! Young America . Yes , sir , she's a " Bloomer " gal , and I'm a " Bloomer " boy ...
... toes at the sight of the cratur . And is it a " Bloomer , " ye ' z are ? Negro . Yes sah , she's a " Bloomer , " sah - a regular Bloomer ! Yah , yah , yah ! Young America . Yes , sir , she's a " Bloomer " gal , and I'm a " Bloomer " boy ...
Page 225
... toes turned out , but not to an excess ; for then they look equally as awkward and ungainly as when they are turned in . In the slow walk or march , the foot should be advanced , keeping the knee and instep straight , and the toe ...
... toes turned out , but not to an excess ; for then they look equally as awkward and ungainly as when they are turned in . In the slow walk or march , the foot should be advanced , keeping the knee and instep straight , and the toe ...
Page 226
... toe , must first touch the ground , and the toes should not be so much turned out as in the slow walk . In the quick step , the body should be thrown more forward than in the other steps , the toes less pointed out , and the knees ...
... toe , must first touch the ground , and the toes should not be so much turned out as in the slow walk . In the quick step , the body should be thrown more forward than in the other steps , the toes less pointed out , and the knees ...
Page 227
... toes ; the hands and arms should be thrown forward , and as the leaper descends , his body should still be slightly inclined . In performing the long leap with the run , the latter should be from ten to twenty paces , and made in small ...
... toes ; the hands and arms should be thrown forward , and as the leaper descends , his body should still be slightly inclined . In performing the long leap with the run , the latter should be from ten to twenty paces , and made in small ...
Page 228
... toes on the other side of the horse : this should be practiced from both sides . Fig . 3 represents vaulting on or over the saddle , in performing which , the hands are placed on each ridge , and the spring is taken between them ; when ...
... toes on the other side of the horse : this should be practiced from both sides . Fig . 3 represents vaulting on or over the saddle , in performing which , the hands are placed on each ridge , and the spring is taken between them ; when ...
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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 ?