A Manual of Elocution: Founded Upon the Philosophy of the Human Voice. With Classified Illustrations Suggested by and Arranged to Meet the Practical Difficulties of Instruction |
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... lost . A strong and adequate utterance , on the contrary , carries the force outward , and causes it to reach with ease and with full effect , over a large space . Expulsive enunciation should receive full attention , as au easy and ...
... lost . A strong and adequate utterance , on the contrary , carries the force outward , and causes it to reach with ease and with full effect , over a large space . Expulsive enunciation should receive full attention , as au easy and ...
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... lost to the world by the want of culture of this spiritual endowment . Suppose that I were to visit a cottage , and see its walls lined with choicest pictures of Raphael , and every spare nook filled with statues of the most exquisite ...
... lost to the world by the want of culture of this spiritual endowment . Suppose that I were to visit a cottage , and see its walls lined with choicest pictures of Raphael , and every spare nook filled with statues of the most exquisite ...
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... Lost . ” Hail , holy Light ! offspring of heaven first - born , Or of the Eternal co - eternal beam , May I express thee unblamed ? since God is light , And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity , dwelt then in thee ...
... Lost . ” Hail , holy Light ! offspring of heaven first - born , Or of the Eternal co - eternal beam , May I express thee unblamed ? since God is light , And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity , dwelt then in thee ...
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... lost ; and formality and dullness become insep- arably associated with public address on serious subjects ; or the tones of bombast and affectation take the place of those which should flow from Russell . earnestness and elevation of ...
... lost ; and formality and dullness become insep- arably associated with public address on serious subjects ; or the tones of bombast and affectation take the place of those which should flow from Russell . earnestness and elevation of ...
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... lost his way And wandered hither , so his stay With us was short , and ' t was most meet That he should be no delver in earth's clod , Nor need to pause and cleanse his feet To stand before his God : O blest word - Evermore ...
... lost his way And wandered hither , so his stay With us was short , and ' t was most meet That he should be no delver in earth's clod , Nor need to pause and cleanse his feet To stand before his God : O blest word - Evermore ...
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A Manual of Elocution: Founded Upon the Philosophy of the Human Voice (1871) M. S. Mitchell No preview available - 2008 |
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Page 369 - But our love it was stronger by far than the love Of those who were older than we, Of many far wiser than we; And neither the angels in heaven above, Nor the demons down under the sea, Can ever dissever my soul from the soul Of the beautiful Annabel Lee: For the moon never beams, without bringing me dreams Of the beautiful Annabel Lee...
Page 177 - If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility ? revenge : If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example ? why, revenge. The villainy, you teach me, I will execute; and it shall go hard, but I will better the instruction.
Page 309 - The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despised love, the law's delay, The insolence of office and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make, With a bare bodkin?
Page 148 - Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand ? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight ? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain ? I see thee yet, in form as palpable As this which now I draw. Thou marshall'st me the way that I was going ; And such an instrument I was to use. Mine eyes are made the fools o...
Page 117 - Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the...
Page 138 - The splendor falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in story: The long light shakes across the lakes, And the wild cataract leaps in glory, Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.
Page 117 - If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the...
Page 255 - THERE was a time when meadow, grove, and stream. The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. It is not now as it hath been of yore ; — Turn wheresoe'er I may, By night or day, The things which I have seen I now can see no more.
Page 343 - Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke; How jocund did they drive their team afield! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke! Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys and destiny obscure; Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the poor.
Page 128 - VITAL spark of heavenly flame ! Quit, oh, quit this mortal frame ! Trembling, hoping, lingering, flying : Oh, the pain, the bliss of dying ! Cease, fond nature ! cease thy strife, And let me languish into life ! Hark, they whisper ; angels say,