THE AMERICAN COMMON-SCHOOL READER AND S P E A K E R: BEING A SELECTION OF PIECES IN PROSE AND VERSE, WITH RULES FOR READING AND SPEAKING. BY JOHN GOLDSBURY, A.M., THE HIGH scifooL, CAMBRIDGEPORT, MASS., AND WILLIAM RUSSELL, THE THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE, EAST WINDSOR, CONN. Thirty-second Thousand. BOSTON: 114 WASHINGTON STREET. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1844, BY JOHN GOLDSBURY, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts. CONTENTS. 15 . PREPACE. РАав 9 9 both Inflections in connexion. 36 PART 1. Rules of Elocution.-Analysis Rule on the Circumflex or Wave.. 33 Quality of the Voice.-Roundness. . 14 . 17 Exercises on the Rising Inflection. . 40 both Inflections in connexion. 51 Moderate' Force, Declamatory Just Stress,-Radical Stress. Force, 'Empassioned' Force. 20 Explosion, - Expulsion,-Median 55 Suppression,-Vanishing Stress, 56 Exercises on Time. 24 Thorough Stress, --Intermitted Stress, Right Emphasis.-Rules on Emphasis. 23 Key to the Notation of Expressive Rules on the Rising Inflection.. 32 Rules on Expressive Tone.' Falling Inflection . 34 | Appropriate Modulation. 72 PART II. Pieces for Practice in Reading and Declamation. LESS 1. Paul's defence before Festus and Agrippa. 6. Industry indispensable to the Orator. 11. Advantages of a Popular Government. 13. Birthplace of American Liberty. 18. Parallel between Pope and Dryden. 22. Foundation of National Character.. 28. Two Centuries from the Landing of the Pilgrims. 30. Character of the present Age. 33. Grecian and Roman Eloquence. The names of American authors, are distinguished by small Capitals ; those of Foreign authors by M317549 |
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