The Standard Speaker & Elocutionist ...Ward, Lock and Company, 1880 - 248 páginas |
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... rules which must be observed , and laws which must be obeyed , if perfection is to be attained , and success assured . Now it will be evident to all who have had any experience either in consulting , or seeking to reduce to practice ...
... rules which must be observed , and laws which must be obeyed , if perfection is to be attained , and success assured . Now it will be evident to all who have had any experience either in consulting , or seeking to reduce to practice ...
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... rules laid down and to give the needful effort to secure success , may have good reasons for hoping , that they will not labour in vain . The preparation of these counsels has been a labour of love , and it will be a cheering result for ...
... rules laid down and to give the needful effort to secure success , may have good reasons for hoping , that they will not labour in vain . The preparation of these counsels has been a labour of love , and it will be a cheering result for ...
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... rule can be laid down which will fit all persons alike . All that can be done consists merely in pointing out plainly those things which are absolutely essential , and also to furnish illustrations of the best methods which have been ...
... rule can be laid down which will fit all persons alike . All that can be done consists merely in pointing out plainly those things which are absolutely essential , and also to furnish illustrations of the best methods which have been ...
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... rules for good reading and speaking , just as we know there are rules for writing correctly . It is quite true that each person may , and indeed ought , to have a special style of his own , both as to what he says , and how he says it ...
... rules for good reading and speaking , just as we know there are rules for writing correctly . It is quite true that each person may , and indeed ought , to have a special style of his own , both as to what he says , and how he says it ...
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... rules . To some of these we now briefly call attention . 1. UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU ARE DOING . - No one can rightly understand or deliver a piece with proper effect which is beyond the reach of the natural powers of the mind , or the ...
... rules . To some of these we now briefly call attention . 1. UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU ARE DOING . - No one can rightly understand or deliver a piece with proper effect which is beyond the reach of the natural powers of the mind , or the ...
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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,