The Exhibition Speaker: Containing Farces, Dialogues, and Tableaux, with Exercises for Declamation in Prose and Verse |
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... proper to be spoken on , as they are commonly called , exhibition days , by tyros in oratory , and embryo statesmen , to the edification of strangers , and the delight of relatives and friends , which have been justly popular with those ...
... proper to be spoken on , as they are commonly called , exhibition days , by tyros in oratory , and embryo statesmen , to the edification of strangers , and the delight of relatives and friends , which have been justly popular with those ...
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... proper understanding of the sentiments uttered , the characters represented , will , it is believed , be found worthy of , and receive their due share of attention . The fair hope and honor- able ambition to be thought worthy to rank ...
... proper understanding of the sentiments uttered , the characters represented , will , it is believed , be found worthy of , and receive their due share of attention . The fair hope and honor- able ambition to be thought worthy to rank ...
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... proper man- agement must be obvious to even the least reflective mind ; for no one can fail to perceive that the understanding is more vividly impressed and influenced by language and tones , than by the countenance or gesture , as the ...
... proper man- agement must be obvious to even the least reflective mind ; for no one can fail to perceive that the understanding is more vividly impressed and influenced by language and tones , than by the countenance or gesture , as the ...
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... proper exercise of the organs of speech . By strictly following this rule , namely , to speak with an expiring ... proper organs , the tongue and the palate ; and by practicing to continue the sound in its proper place , or rather nearer ...
... proper exercise of the organs of speech . By strictly following this rule , namely , to speak with an expiring ... proper organs , the tongue and the palate ; and by practicing to continue the sound in its proper place , or rather nearer ...
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... proper organ . Pronunciation and Accent . Pronunciation is the mode of enouncing certain words and syllables . By accent is understood the stress laid on particu- lar syllables , or in a more extended sense , the tone or expres- sion of ...
... proper organ . Pronunciation and Accent . Pronunciation is the mode of enouncing certain words and syllables . By accent is understood the stress laid on particu- lar syllables , or in a more extended sense , the tone or expres- sion 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 ! Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the Republic, now known and honored throughout the earth, still full high advanced, its arms and trophies streaming in their original...
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 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; who, for the most part, are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows, and noise: I would have such a fellow whipped for o'erdoing Termagant; it out-herods Herod: Pray you, avoid it.
Page 191 - That Union we reached only by the discipline of our virtues in the severe school of adversity. It had its origin in the necessities of disordered finance, prostrate commerce, and ruined credit. Under its benign influences, these great interests immediately awoke as from the dead, and sprang forth with newness of life.
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 191 - I have not allowed myself, sir, to look beyond the Union to see what might lie hidden in the dark recess behind. I have not coolly weighed the chances of preserving liberty when the bonds that unite us together shall be broken asunder. I have not. accustomed myself to hang over the precipice of disunion to see whether, with my short sight, I can fathom the depth of the abyss below...
Page 137 - Hath seal'd thee for herself: for thou hast been As one, in suffering all, that suffers nothing ; A man, that Fortune's buffets and rewards...
Page 136 - ... accent of Christians nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of Nature's journeymen had made men and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Page 133 - But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison-house, I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, : Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres, Thy knotted and combined locks to part And each particular hair to stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine : But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood.
Page 134 - Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast, With witchcraft of his wit, with traitorous gifts, — O wicked wit and gifts, that have the power So to seduce! — won to his shameful lust The will of my most seeming-virtuous queen: 0 Hamlet, what a falling-off was there!