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1st attitude 2nd attitude arch arm and head arm stretching Arm swinging arms back arms in front arms over head back at side Basket step body at shoulder body at waist body erect Change the strong chest CHOROGRAPHY draw the horizontal draw the oblique erect position EXERCISES IN CHAPTER feather movement foot and place Foot extension free leg front of body half arch head level hips horizontal line Keep the body left arm left foot left leg strong leg and repeat let the head level in front Lift both arms Lift the arms Lift the left Lift the right Minuet muscles oblique line Retrace Return to position right arm right foot Right leg strong rise on toes Shoulder movement side of body slowly stretch the arms stretching back strong arm strong leg swing the arm swinging arms Third attitude tips of fingers touching toe turn the palms waist level Waltz wrist
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Page 7 - Spite of this flesh to-day I strove, made head, gained ground upon the whole!" As the bird wings and sings, Let us cry, "All good things Are ours, nor soul helps flesh more, now, than flesh helps soul!
Page 67 - tis to gaze upon My Nora's lid that seldom rises; Few its looks, but every one, Like unexpected light, surprises! Oh, my Nora Creina, dear, My gentle, bashful Nora Creina, Beauty lies In many eyes, But love in yours, my Nora Creina. Lesbia wears a robe of gold, But all so close the nymph hath laced it, Not a charm of beauty's mould Presumes to stay where Nature placed it. Oh ! my Nora's gown for me, That floats as wild as mountain breezes, Leaving every beauty free To sink or swell as Heaven pleases.
Page 195 - Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature...
Page 141 - As remarks a suggestive writer, the first requisite to success in life is " to be a good animal;" and to be a nation of good animals is the first condition to national prosperity.
Page 144 - IN life's small things be resolute and great To keep thy muscle trained: know'st thou when Fate Thy measure takes, or when she '11 say to thee, " I find thee worthy; do this deed for me
Page 141 - Hence it is becoming of especial importance that the training of children should be so carried on, as not only to fit them mentally for the struggle before them, but also to make them physically fit to bear its excessive wear and tear.
Page lxxxv - Many de songs I sung. When I was playing wid my brudder Happy was I; Oh, take me to my kind old mudder! Dere let me live and die.
Page 121 - ... are quite alarming, Grandma says ; but boys were charming — Girls and boys, I mean, of course — Long ago. Bravely modest, grandly shy — What if all of us should try Just to feel like those who met In the graceful minuet Long ago. With the minuet in fashion, Who could fly into a passion? All would wear the calm they wore Long ago. In time to come, if I perchance Should tell my grandchild of our dance, I should really like to say, "We did, my dear, in some such way, Long ago.
Page 176 - Blessing she is : God made her so; And deeds of week-day holiness Fall from her noiseless as the snow; Nor hath she ever chanced to know That aught were easier than to bless. She is most fair, and thereunto Her life doth rightly harmonize ; Feeling or thought that was not true Ne'er made less beautiful the blue Unclouded heaven of her eyes.
Page 104 - ... Seek to make the children feel that good physical habits are a duty. In conclusion, let me add this thought : The physical training work must not be confined to the ten or fifteen minutes daily given to the exercises, but it must extend to all the acts of the day, for, in the words of Montaigne, " It is not a soul, not a body, we educate : it is a man. Out of this one we must not make two.