Primer of Elocution and Action |
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... keeping each subject more completely apart from the others than if the ordinary method of numbering were followed . Little will be found here relating to emotional ex- pression ; such work belongs to a later period of mental development ...
... keeping each subject more completely apart from the others than if the ordinary method of numbering were followed . Little will be found here relating to emotional ex- pression ; such work belongs to a later period of mental development ...
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... Keep the feet near together , one slightly in advance of the other . Let the hands , if unemployed , lie easily and naturally in the lap . Do not lean against the back of the chair , nor sit stiffly erect , but sway the body slightly ...
... Keep the feet near together , one slightly in advance of the other . Let the hands , if unemployed , lie easily and naturally in the lap . Do not lean against the back of the chair , nor sit stiffly erect , but sway the body slightly ...
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... Keep the book at one side and well away from your eyes , so that those in front of you can see your face . 1. Read to bring out ideas , not words . A group of words combined to express an idea is called a phrase , and the grouping of ...
... Keep the book at one side and well away from your eyes , so that those in front of you can see your face . 1. Read to bring out ideas , not words . A group of words combined to express an idea is called a phrase , and the grouping of ...
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... Keeping the mouth closed , breathe in through the nose until the lungs are comfortably filled with air . Send the breath down toward the waist as if to push away the hands . ( 2 ) Breathe out slowly until you feel a sense of perfect ...
... Keeping the mouth closed , breathe in through the nose until the lungs are comfortably filled with air . Send the breath down toward the waist as if to push away the hands . ( 2 ) Breathe out slowly until you feel a sense of perfect ...
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... Keep us , O keep us the many in one ! Up with our banner bright , Sprinkled with starry light , Spread its fair emblems from mountain to shore , While through the sounding sky , Loud rings the Nation's cry- Union and Liberty ! One ...
... Keep us , O keep us the many in one ! Up with our banner bright , Sprinkled with starry light , Spread its fair emblems from mountain to shore , While through the sounding sky , Loud rings the Nation's cry- Union and Liberty ! One ...
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Common terms and phrases
2D CIT ab normal action Alexander Ypsilanti art thou attitude audience bearing Bell body bởi breath brow called chest chirp circumflex climax clustered spires consonants Cricket downward emotion emphasis emphatic word EXAMPLES FOR PRACTICE EXERCISE expression falling inflection feel feet fingers forearm free foot front gestures give glory hand hath head hear heard heaven indicate instance Jean Ingelow Julius Cæsar keep Kettle larynx LESSON lips look Lord lung exercise lungs MARULLUS meaning melody mind Moss Rose mouth movement muscles natural NEPH never o'er object palm pantomime Paul Revere pause phrase pitch Practise pupils relaxed rise sentence Shakespeare shoulders side slowly sound speak speaker Speaker's Position speech stand star-spangled banner strong syllable teacher thee things thistles thou tion tone tongue vocal voice vowel vowel-sounds weakness weight Wendell Phillips
Popular passages
Page 28 - The mountain and the squirrel Had a quarrel, And the former called the latter 'Little Prig; Bun replied, 'You are doubtless very big; But all sorts of things and weather Must be taken in together, To make up a year And a sphere. And I think it no disgrace To occupy my place. If I'm not so large as you, You are not so small as I, And not half so spry. I'll not deny you make A very pretty squirrel track; Talents differ; all is well and wisely put; If I cannot carry forests on my back, Neither can you...
Page 115 - I sprang to the stirrup, and Joris, and he; I galloped, Dirck galloped, we galloped all three; "Good speed!" cried the watch, as the gate-bolts undrew; "Speed!
Page 168 - And he was angry, and would not go in : therefore came his father out, and entreated him. And he answering said to his father, Lo, these many years do I serve thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy commandment : and yet thou never gavest me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends : but as soon as this thy son was come, which hath devoured thy living with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf.
Page 178 - Romans, countrymen, and lovers ! hear me for my cause, and be silent that you may hear : believe me for mine honor, and have respect to mine honor, that you may believe : censure me in your -wisdom, and awake your senses, that you may the better judge. If there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of Caesar's, to him I say, that Brutus' love to Caesar was no less than his.
Page 192 - Then off there flung in smiling joy, And held himself erect By just his horse's mane, a boy : You hardly could suspect — (So tight he kept his lips compressed, Scarce any blood came through) You looked twice ere you saw his breast Was all but shot in two. "Well...
Page 111 - So stately his form, and so lovely her face, That never a hall such a galliard did grace ; While her mother did fret, and her father did fume, And the bridegroom stood dangling his bonnet and plume, And the bridemaidens whispered, " 'Twere better, by far, To have matched our fair cousin with young Lochinvar.
Page 178 - As Caesar loved me, I weep for him; as he was fortunate, I rejoice at it; as he was valiant, I honour him; but, as he was ambitious, I slew him.
Page 169 - ... 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. Now this overdone or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve ; the censure of which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theatre of others.
Page 162 - It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log, at last, dry, bald, and sere: A lily of a day, Is fairer far, in May, Although it fall, and die that night; It was the plant, and flower of light. In small proportions, we just beauties see: And in short measures, life may perfect be.
Page 115 - WHEN I consider how my light is spent Ere half my days in this dark world and wide, And that one talent which is death to hide Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest He returning chide, "Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?