The Exhibition Speaker: Containing Farces, Dialogues, and Tableaux : with Exercises for Declamation in Prose and Verse, Also a Treatise on Oratory and Elocution, Hints on Dramatic Characters, Costumes, Position on the Stage, Making Up, Etc., Etc. : with IllustrationsSheldon, Blakeman & Company, 1856 - 268 páginas |
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Página 178
... toes at the sight of the cratur . And is it a " Bloomer , " ye ' z are ? Negro . Yes sah , she's a " Bloomer , " sah - a regular Bloomer ! Yah , yah , yah ! Young America . Yes , sir , she's a " Bloomer " gal , and I'm a " Bloomer " boy ...
... toes at the sight of the cratur . And is it a " Bloomer , " ye ' z are ? Negro . Yes sah , she's a " Bloomer , " sah - a regular Bloomer ! Yah , yah , yah ! Young America . Yes , sir , she's a " Bloomer " gal , and I'm a " Bloomer " boy ...
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... toes turned out , but not to an excess ; for then they look equally as awkward and ungainly as when they are turned in . In the slow walk or march , the foot should be advanced , keeping the knee and instep straight , and the toe ...
... toes turned out , but not to an excess ; for then they look equally as awkward and ungainly as when they are turned in . In the slow walk or march , the foot should be advanced , keeping the knee and instep straight , and the toe ...
Página 226
... toe , must first touch the ground , and the toes should not be so much turned out as in the slow walk . In the quick step , the body should be thrown more forward than in the other steps , the toes less pointed out , and the knees ...
... toe , must first touch the ground , and the toes should not be so much turned out as in the slow walk . In the quick step , the body should be thrown more forward than in the other steps , the toes less pointed out , and the knees ...
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... toes ; the hands and arms should be thrown forward , and as the leaper descends , his body should still be slightly inclined . In performing the long leap with the run , the latter should be from ten to twenty paces , and made in small ...
... toes ; the hands and arms should be thrown forward , and as the leaper descends , his body should still be slightly inclined . In performing the long leap with the run , the latter should be from ten to twenty paces , and made in small ...
Página 228
... toes on the other side of the horse : this should be practiced from both sides . Fig . 3 represents vaulting on or over the saddle , in performing which , the hands are placed on each ridge , and the spring is taken between them ; when ...
... toes on the other side of the horse : this should be practiced from both sides . Fig . 3 represents vaulting on or over the saddle , in performing which , the hands are placed on each ridge , and the spring is taken between them ; when ...
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The Exhibition Speaker Containing Farce Dialogue and Tableaux with Exercises ... Vista completa - 1856 |
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Página 136 - ... twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure.
Página 136 - And let those that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them : for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the mean time, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered: that's villainous; and . shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.
Página 216 - Persians' grave, I could not deem myself a slave. A king sate on the rocky brow Which looks o'er sea-born Salamis ; And ships, by thousands, lay below, And men in nations ; — all were his ! He counted them at break of day — And when the sun set where were they ? And where are they?
Página 135 - Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus ; but use all gently ; for in the very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say, whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
Página 133 - May sweep to my revenge. Ghost. I find thee apt ; And duller shouldst thou be than the fat weed That roots itself in ease on Lethe wharf, Wouldst thou not stir in this.
Página 166 - t. It breaks my chain. I held some slack allegiance till this hour; But now my sword's my own. Smile on, my lords ! I scorn to count what feelings, withered hopes. Strong provocations, bitter, burning wrongs, I have within my heart's hot cells shut up, To leave you in your lazy dignities.
Página 217 - You have the Pyrrhic dance as yet, Where is the Pyrrhic phalanx gone? Of two such lessons, why forget The nobler and the manlier one?
Página 216 - Islands of the Blest'. The mountains look on Marathon, And Marathon looks on the sea. And musing there an hour alone, I dreamed that Greece might still be free, For standing on the Persians' grave, I could not deem myself a slave.
Página 217 - Must we but blush? Our fathers bled. Earth ! render back from out thy breast A remnant of our Spartan dead ! Of the three hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylae ! What, silent still?
Página 191 - It is to that Union we owe our safety at home and our consideration and dignity abroad. It is to that Union that we are chiefly indebted for whatever makes us most proud of our country. That Union we reached only by the discipline of our virtues in the severe school of adversity. It had its origin in the necessities of disordered finance, prostrate commerce, and ruined credit.