The Exhibition Speaker Containing Farce Dialogue and Tableaux with Exercises for Declamation in Prose and Verse: Also, a Treatise on Oratory and Elocutions, Hints on Dramatic Characters |
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... persons of delicate habits are more generally subject to it , it no doubt proceeds from a constitutional trepidation ... person should , therefore , speak with deliberation , and when alone , practice frequently those words or letters ...
... persons of delicate habits are more generally subject to it , it no doubt proceeds from a constitutional trepidation ... person should , therefore , speak with deliberation , and when alone , practice frequently those words or letters ...
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... person should always speak with an expiring breath . To do this , he must speak deliberately , and with the mouth ... persons afflicted with stammering , always avoid it in singing ? It is because they utter the words de- liberately ...
... person should always speak with an expiring breath . To do this , he must speak deliberately , and with the mouth ... persons afflicted with stammering , always avoid it in singing ? It is because they utter the words de- liberately ...
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... person that has weak utterance should daily practice to read or recite , in the presence of a friend . His friend should be placed at first , at such a distance as he may be able to reach in his usual manner ; the distance is then ...
... person that has weak utterance should daily practice to read or recite , in the presence of a friend . His friend should be placed at first , at such a distance as he may be able to reach in his usual manner ; the distance is then ...
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... person . 2. The low speaking tone or murmur , suited to close con- versation . 3. The ordinary pitch or middle , suited to general conver- sation . 4. The elevated pitch , used only in earnest argument . 5. The extreme , used in violent ...
... person . 2. The low speaking tone or murmur , suited to close con- versation . 3. The ordinary pitch or middle , suited to general conver- sation . 4. The elevated pitch , used only in earnest argument . 5. The extreme , used in violent ...
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... person , and partly on the mind . Most forms of the human figure are capable , in a considerable degree , of graceful motions ; but , if not trained and educated in the most perfect manner , are apt to imitate the awkward and the vulgar ...
... person , and partly on the mind . Most forms of the human figure are capable , in a considerable degree , of graceful motions ; but , if not trained and educated in the most perfect manner , are apt to imitate the awkward and the vulgar ...
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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...
Page 133 - I am thy father's spirit; Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night, And for the day confined to fast in fires, Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature Are burnt and purged away.
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 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 167 - What if this cursed hand Were thicker than itself with brother's blood, Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens To wash it white as snow?
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...
Page 133 - May sweep to my revenge. Ghost. I find thee apt ; And duller shouldst thou be than the fat weed That roots itself in ease on Lethe wharf, Wouldst thou not stir in this.
Page 136 - Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus ; but use all gently ; for in the very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say, whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
Page 136 - 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 167 - I'll look up ; My fault is past. But O, what form of prayer Can serve my turn ?