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Can anything be more ridiculous than to hear any person trying to recite or read a
piece which he evidently does not understand - using words like a parrot , which
do not convey to his own mind any clear or intelligent idea ? Is it likely to be ...
Can anything be more ridiculous than to hear any person trying to recite or read a
piece which he evidently does not understand - using words like a parrot , which
do not convey to his own mind any clear or intelligent idea ? Is it likely to be ...
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The one will carry conviction to the minds of those who hear , while the other will
arouse annoyance in the minds of those who do not . A good articulation ( says
Mr . Sheridan , in his Lectures on Elocution ) , consists in giving every letter in a ...
The one will carry conviction to the minds of those who hear , while the other will
arouse annoyance in the minds of those who do not . A good articulation ( says
Mr . Sheridan , in his Lectures on Elocution ) , consists in giving every letter in a ...
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How painful it is to hear anyone speaking of his “ ' ouse ” or his “ ' orse , " or telling
one “ ' ow ' ard it his to find a good ' orse . ” A smile will surely be raised if anyone
is heard to say that he left “ ' is master ' s ' ouse to go ' ome and found it very ...
How painful it is to hear anyone speaking of his “ ' ouse ” or his “ ' orse , " or telling
one “ ' ow ' ard it his to find a good ' orse . ” A smile will surely be raised if anyone
is heard to say that he left “ ' is master ' s ' ouse to go ' ome and found it very ...
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... acquire an easy habit or style of delivery , until it will become so natural that ,
should you be called upon to deliver your own thoughts , you will be at no loss for
words to do so with comfort to yourself and pleasure to those who may hear you .
... acquire an easy habit or style of delivery , until it will become so natural that ,
should you be called upon to deliver your own thoughts , you will be at no loss for
words to do so with comfort to yourself and pleasure to those who may hear you .
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We seem to hear him thinking aloud , and his thoughts flow forth to us in the
same order and in the same clearness as they spring up in our own mind , and so
long as this continues we are charmed . But the moment an odd expression or a
far ...
We seem to hear him thinking aloud , and his thoughts flow forth to us in the
same order and in the same clearness as they spring up in our own mind , and so
long as this continues we are charmed . But the moment an odd expression or a
far ...
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Página 60 - For I can raise no money by vile means: By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring From the hard hands of peasants their' vile trash By any indirection.
Página 82 - Dark-heaving; boundless, endless, and sublime — The image of Eternity — the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Página 186 - Caesar carelessly but nod on him. He had a fever when he was in Spain, And when the fit was on him, I did mark How he did shake...
Página 152 - God ! sing, ye meadow-streams, with gladsome voice! Ye pine-groves, with your soft and soul-like sounds ! And they, too, have a voice, yon piles of snow, And in their perilous fall, shall thunder, God...
Página 65 - I'll leave you till night; you are welcome to Elsinore. Ros. Good my lord ! [Exeunt Rosencrantz and Giiildenstern. Ham. Ay, so, God be wi' ye :—Now I am alone. O, what a rogue and 'peasant slave am I ! Is it not monstrous that this player here, But in a fiction, in a dream of passion, Could force his soul so to his own conceit...
Página 57 - WE watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life . Kept heaving to and fro. So silently we...
Página 151 - Risest from forth thy silent sea of pines, How silently ! Around thee and above Deep is the air and dark, substantial, black, An ebon mass : methinks thou piercest it As with a wedge ! But when I look again, It is thine own calm home, thy crystal shrine, Thy habitation from eternity ' 0 dread and silent Mount ! I gazed upon thee Till thou, still present to the bodily sense, Didst vanish from my thought : entranced in prayer 1 worshipped the Invisible alone.
Página 72 - The angels, not half so happy in heaven, Went envying her and me; Yes! that was the reason (as all men know, In this kingdom by the sea) That the wind came out of the cloud by night, Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.
Página 82 - O, young Lochinvar is come out of the west, Through all the wide Border his steed was the best ; And save his good broad-sword he weapon had none, He rode all unarmed, and he rode all alone. So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war, There never was knight like the young Lochinvar.
Página 21 - One touch to her hand, and one word in her ear. When they reached the hall door, and the charger stood near; So light to the croupe the fair lady he swung, So light to the saddle before her he sprung! "She is won! we are gone, over bank, bush, and scaur: They'll have fleet steeds that follow,
Información bibliográfica
| Título | The Standard speaker and elocutionist Kirton's Standard Reciters |
| Autor | John William Kirton |
| Editor | Ward, Lock and Company, 1880 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Oxford |
| Digitalizado | 28 Jul. 2006 |
| Largo | 248 páginas |
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