Lessons in Elocution ...Adams, Blackmer, & Lyon, 1865 - 240 Seiten |
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... eyes , which should frequently be cast from the book to those who listen . Practice holding the book in concert . 1st . Book in the right hand by the side- first position . 2d . Raise it and open it to place . 3d . Pass it to left hand ...
... eyes , which should frequently be cast from the book to those who listen . Practice holding the book in concert . 1st . Book in the right hand by the side- first position . 2d . Raise it and open it to place . 3d . Pass it to left hand ...
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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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... eye beneath , Flashed like a falchion from its sheath , c And like a silver clarion rung The accents of that unknown tongue , Excelsior ! 3. In happy homes he saw the light Of household fires gleam warm and bright ; Above , the spectral ...
... eye beneath , Flashed like a falchion from its sheath , c And like a silver clarion rung The accents of that unknown tongue , Excelsior ! 3. In happy homes he saw the light Of household fires gleam warm and bright ; Above , the spectral ...
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... eye , j But still he answered , with a sigh , Excelsior ! 6. " Beware the pine - tree's withered branch ! Beware the awful avalanche ! " This was the peasant's last good - night , A voice replied , far up the height , 7 Excelsior ! 7 ...
... eye , j But still he answered , with a sigh , Excelsior ! 6. " Beware the pine - tree's withered branch ! Beware the awful avalanche ! " This was the peasant's last good - night , A voice replied , far up the height , 7 Excelsior ! 7 ...
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... eyes , which , whatever way they turn , want the ancient custom of the former , and the former manner of trials` . Although , son Marcus , as you have now been a hearer of Cratippus for a year , and this at Athens , you ought to abound ...
... eyes , which , whatever way they turn , want the ancient custom of the former , and the former manner of trials` . Although , son Marcus , as you have now been a hearer of Cratippus for a year , and this at Athens , you ought to abound ...
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Lessons in Elocution: With Numerous Selections, Analyzed for Practice Allen A. Griffith Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2022 |
Lessons in Elocution: With Numerous Selections, Analyzed for Practice Allen A. Griffith Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2022 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Abraham Lincoln angel apple-tree arms Aspirate Bardell beautiful bells blood bold Books brave breath Cæsar called cartilages child circumflexes cried dark death District Dred Scott drum earth elements elocution Excelsior expression eyes fall father fire flag Fool force Forward freedom gesture give glory glottis Government hand head heart heaven High pitch honor human inflections land larynx liberty light lips live look loud low pitch Merchant of Venice mother motley Fool narrative nation never Nevermore Niagara River night o'er Orotund patriotism pause personation Pickwick Pompey principles pure voice Qualities of voice quick Quoth the raven reading reply School shout slave slavery slow smile soldier soul sound speaking spirit stand stars stood student Sub-Vocal Teachers tears tell Tennessee thee thou tone tremor Union utterance vocal wind words woul't young
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 187 - Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore,— " Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou," I said, " art sure no craven, Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore: Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore !" Quoth the Raven,
Seite 94 - What a gush of euphony voluminously wells! How it swells How it dwells On the Future ; how it tells Of the rapture that impels To the swinging and the ringing Of the bells, bells, bells, Of the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells— To the rhyming and the chiming of the bells!
Seite 49 - I conjure you, by that which you profess, (Howe'er you come to know it,) answer me : Though you untie the winds, and let them fight Against the churches ; though the yesty waves Confound and swallow navigation up; Though bladed corn be lodg'd, and trees blown down; Though castles topple on their warders...
Seite 66 - Dost thou come here to whine ? To outface me with leaping in her grave ? Be buried quick with her, and so will I : And, if thou prate of mountains, let them throw Millions of acres on us, till our ground, Singeing his pate against the burning zone, Make Ossa like a wart ! Nay, an thou'lt mouth, I'll rant as well as thou.
Seite 35 - 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.
Seite 41 - ... 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.
Seite 187 - or Madam, truly your forgiveness I implore; But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping, And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door, That I scarce was sure I heard you' - here I opened wide the door; Darkness there and nothing more.
Seite 36 - 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...
Seite 36 - 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.
Seite 93 - 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. Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells From the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells— From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.