Lessons in Elocution: With Numerous Selections, Analyzed for PracticeReprint of the original, first published in 1865. A Text Book in Reading and Speaking, for Schools, Seminaries, and Private Learners. Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged. |
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Contents
66 | xi |
With Sentences | 17 |
Diagrams of the Hands | 23 |
SubVocal Elements | 26 |
Difficulty of Separating Qualities of Voice Note | 33 |
Variations of Voice Pitch | 40 |
Complete Assertions Falling Inflections | 46 |
Pauses | 55 |
On the Shores of Tennessee Ethel L Beers | 123 |
The Fireman F S Hill | 129 |
The Lost Steamship Fitz James OBrien | 136 |
Our Country Charles King | 141 |
The Picket Guard | 147 |
The Jaguar Hunt J T Trowbridge | 153 |
The Sculptor Boy 0 W Holmes | 159 |
The Polish Boy Mrs Ann S Stephens | 165 |
Joy Transport | 61 |
Reproach | 64 |
SELECTIONS | 70 |
England Against War H W Beecher | 76 |
A Mirror for Traitors Joseph IIolt | 82 |
The Duty of the Future T Corwin | 87 |
The Bells Edgar A Poe | 93 |
Admission of California W H Seward | 99 |
Bethel A J H Duganne | 105 |
Barbara Frietchie J G Whittier | 111 |
The Smack in School Palmer | 117 |
Scott and the Veteran Bayard Taylor | 172 |
Against Curtailing the Right of Suffrage Victor Hugo | 180 |
The Raven Edgar A Poe | 186 |
On Board the Cumberland G W Boker | 192 |
The Vagabonds J T Trowbridge | 198 |
Waiting by the Gate William C Bryant | 205 |
Address at the Dedication of the Cemetery at Gettysburg | 213 |
The Courtin James Russell Lowell | 224 |
The Old Man Dreams Oliver Wendell Holmes | 230 |
The Rival Orators Aimwell Stories | 237 |
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