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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... Young America , 175 No. 4. A Classical Tableau of Deities famous in ancient My- thology ; designed for young ladies , 178 No. 5. A Classical Tableau adverse to No. 4 , and designed to be represented by boys , 182 No. 6. The Reward of ...
... Young America , 175 No. 4. A Classical Tableau of Deities famous in ancient My- thology ; designed for young ladies , 178 No. 5. A Classical Tableau adverse to No. 4 , and designed to be represented by boys , 182 No. 6. The Reward of ...
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... young , as they emerge from infancy , the experience of something new , something calculated to excite the reflective faculties , to force the exercise of the reasoning powers . To be curious as to causes and effects , is a ...
... young , as they emerge from infancy , the experience of something new , something calculated to excite the reflective faculties , to force the exercise of the reasoning powers . To be curious as to causes and effects , is a ...
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... young student facilities by which to acquire confidence in expressing his thoughts in public , is the object of this work . Should this be gained , much will have been accomplished worthy of commendation . Elocution , as a branch of ...
... young student facilities by which to acquire confidence in expressing his thoughts in public , is the object of this work . Should this be gained , much will have been accomplished worthy of commendation . Elocution , as a branch of ...
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... young man , study . You may be called upon to occupy a seat in those legislative halls whose walls yet echo with the speeches of a Clay or a Webster , -those mighty dead , the thunder of whose eloquence , reverberating through all time ...
... young man , study . You may be called upon to occupy a seat in those legislative halls whose walls yet echo with the speeches of a Clay or a Webster , -those mighty dead , the thunder of whose eloquence , reverberating through all time ...
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... young person should , therefore , speak with deliberation , and when alone , practice frequently those words or letters which he finds it most difficult to enounce . He should also furnish his mind with a copious vocabulary of synonyms ...
... young person should , therefore , speak with deliberation , and when alone , practice frequently those words or letters which he finds it most difficult to enounce . He should also furnish his mind with a copious vocabulary of synonyms ...
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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.