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... speech , as well as those of gesticulation , I begin with exercises of the most energetic kind ; because these only will produce the desired effect : by diligently prac- tising energetic exercises , the Student soon acquires a strength ...
... speech , as well as those of gesticulation , I begin with exercises of the most energetic kind ; because these only will produce the desired effect : by diligently prac- tising energetic exercises , the Student soon acquires a strength ...
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... speech require much training to enable them to perform their functions properly , the pupil should repeat the same exercise till he can articu- late every element , and give to each syllable the pitch , force , and time which the ...
... speech require much training to enable them to perform their functions properly , the pupil should repeat the same exercise till he can articu- late every element , and give to each syllable the pitch , force , and time which the ...
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... Speech of Satan to his Legions , with Gestures . The Miser and Plutus , with Gestures .. 167 172 174 176 176 177 178 178 179 179 182 183 184 184 185 185 192 EXERCISES IN READING AND DECLAMATION . Extract from a supposed 111 CONTENTS .
... Speech of Satan to his Legions , with Gestures . The Miser and Plutus , with Gestures .. 167 172 174 176 176 177 178 178 179 179 182 183 184 184 185 185 192 EXERCISES IN READING AND DECLAMATION . Extract from a supposed 111 CONTENTS .
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... Speech of John Adams , in support of Happy Freedom of the Man whom Grace makes Free . Cowper 279 Industry necessary to the Attainment of Eloquence .... Ware 333 Knowledge .. Lines supposed to have been written by Alexander Selkirk , dur ...
... Speech of John Adams , in support of Happy Freedom of the Man whom Grace makes Free . Cowper 279 Industry necessary to the Attainment of Eloquence .... Ware 333 Knowledge .. Lines supposed to have been written by Alexander Selkirk , dur ...
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... Speech of Lord Chatham Speech of Patrick Henry Speech of Rolla ... Speech of Satan to his Legions . Speech of Satan , with Gestures . Tell's Address to the Mountains . Thanatopsis .. 1 The American Flag The Burial of Sir John Moore ...
... Speech of Lord Chatham Speech of Patrick Henry Speech of Rolla ... Speech of Satan to his Legions . Speech of Satan , with Gestures . Tell's Address to the Mountains . Thanatopsis .. 1 The American Flag The Burial of Sir John Moore ...
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Page 242 - When thoughts Of the last bitter hour come like a blight Over thy spirit, and sad images Of the stern agony and shroud and pall And breathless darkness and the narrow house Make thee to shudder and grow sick at heart, Go forth under the open sky and list To Nature's teachings, while from all around — Earth and her waters and the depths of air — Comes a still voice...
Page 260 - There is no longer any room for hope. If we wish to be free — if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending — if we mean not basely to abandon...
Page 242 - Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world — with kings, The powerful of the earth — the wise, the good, Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre.
Page 337 - 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 bride-maidens whispered, " 'Twere better by far To have matched our fair cousin with young Lochinvar.
Page 335 - And there lay the rider distorted and pale, With the dew on his brow, and the rust on his mail; And the tents were all silent, the banners alone, The lances unlifted, the trumpet unblown.
Page 204 - ON Linden, when the sun was low, All bloodless lay the untrodden snow, And dark as winter was the flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly. But Linden saw another sight, When the drum beat, at dead of night, Commanding fires of death to light The darkness of her scenery.
Page 179 - I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute ; From the centre all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute.
Page 303 - He gained from heaven ('twas all he wished) a friend. No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode, (There they alike in trembling hope repose) The bosom of his father and his God.
Page 260 - We have held the subject up in every light of which it is capable ; but it has been all in vain. Shall we resort to entreaty and humble supplication?
Page 303 - There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noon-tide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.