The modern elocutionist, compiled and ed. by J.A. JenningsJohn Andrew Jennings 1878 |
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... speaking from the chest . Do not stoop , as though oppressed by disease , but have the chest expanded , taking breath silently , as gasping is very disagreeable to the hearers and wearisome to yourself ; besides , if proper pauses be ...
... speaking from the chest . Do not stoop , as though oppressed by disease , but have the chest expanded , taking breath silently , as gasping is very disagreeable to the hearers and wearisome to yourself ; besides , if proper pauses be ...
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... for the master to pronounce the word in imitation of the pupil , and then show the right method , drawing attention to the position of the different organs whilst in the act of speaking . Pay particular attention to xviii INTRODUCTION .
... for the master to pronounce the word in imitation of the pupil , and then show the right method , drawing attention to the position of the different organs whilst in the act of speaking . Pay particular attention to xviii INTRODUCTION .
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... speaking under the supposed influence of various emotions , half - nay , more than half the meaning is lost to his audience , simply because anything unnatural loses its interest almost altogether . None of us have ever heard syllables ...
... speaking under the supposed influence of various emotions , half - nay , more than half the meaning is lost to his audience , simply because anything unnatural loses its interest almost altogether . None of us have ever heard syllables ...
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John Andrew Jennings. the following passage from Mr. Hullah's treatise on the speaking voice : - " Whatever control we may acquire over our voices , of themselves , we shall never turn them to the best account till we have attained also ...
John Andrew Jennings. the following passage from Mr. Hullah's treatise on the speaking voice : - " Whatever control we may acquire over our voices , of themselves , we shall never turn them to the best account till we have attained also ...
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... SPEAKING VOICE , " Hullah , pp . 50 and 51 ) . Finally - Be in earnest ; practise constantly ; learn by heart . Till a ... speak well . However , I believe the time has at length arrived when Elocution is considered to be a necessary ...
... SPEAKING VOICE , " Hullah , pp . 50 and 51 ) . Finally - Be in earnest ; practise constantly ; learn by heart . Till a ... speak well . However , I believe the time has at length arrived when Elocution is considered to be a necessary ...
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Common terms and phrases
Annabel Lee arms Baby Bell beautiful snow Bessie Betsey Bingen bless brave breast breath BRET HARTE bright brow CHARLES DICKENS cheek child cried dark darling dead dear death deep door dream earth EDGAR ALLAN POE eyes face fair father fear feet fell flowers grave Gregsbury hair hand happy head hear heard heart heaven Helon kind permission kissed knew lady Lars Porsena laugh light lips live look Lord M'INTOSH Malaprop Mayton morning mother never nevermore night o'er pale poor pray prayer Quoth the Raven rose round SAMUEL K seem'd sleep smile soft soul speak stood sweet T. B. ALDRICH tears tell tender thee there's thing THOMAS HOOD thou thought to-day told Twas voice weep wind wonder word young
Popular passages
Page 220 - THE BELLS. HEAR the sledges with the bells — Silver bells ! What a world of merriment their melody foretells ! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night ! While the stars that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight...
Page 95 - thing of evil— prophet still, if bird or devil! By that Heaven that bends above us, by that God we both adore, Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn, It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore: Clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore!
Page 451 - I go, and it is done; the bell invites me. Hear it not, Duncan, for it is a knell That summons thee to heaven, or to hell.
Page 91 - Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore — While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door; "'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door — Only this, and nothing more.
Page 283 - I REMEMBER, I remember, The house where I was born, The little window where the sun Came peeping in at morn ; He never came a wink too soon, Nor brought too long a day, But now, I often wish the night Had borne my breath away!
Page 430 - God ! that one might read the book of fate, And see the revolution of the times Make mountains level, and the continent,— Weary of solid firmness, — melt itself Into the sea ! and, other times, to see The beachy girdle of the ocean Too wide for Neptune's hips...
Page 125 - Tis now become a history little known, That once we called the pastoral house our own. Short-lived possession ! but the record fair, That memory keeps of all thy kindness there, Still outlives many a storm, that has effaced A thousand other themes less deeply traced.
Page 160 - IT was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea That a maiden there lived whom you may know By the name of ANNABEL LEE ; And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me.
Page 348 - Brown rats, black rats, gray rats, tawny rats, Grave old plodders, gay young friskers, 'Fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins, Cocking tails and pricking whiskers, Families by tens and dozens, Brothers, sisters, husbands, wives — Followed the Piper for their lives.
Page 78 - Between the dark and the daylight, when the night is beginning to lower, Comes a pause in the day's occupations, that is known as the Children's Hour.