Knowles' Elocutionist: A First-class Rhetorical Reader and Recitation Book, Containing the Only Essential Principles of Elocution, Directions for Managing the Voice, Etc., Simplified and Expanded on a Novel Plan, with Numerous Pieces for Reading and Declamation, Designed for the Use of Schools and CollegesC.J. Riker, 1847 - 322 páginas |
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... true is all this ! And yet , in some of our books of selections for reading in schools , we have " a key of thetorical notation " attached to the pieces , informing the reader when to raise his voice and when to lower it- · vi when to ...
... true is all this ! And yet , in some of our books of selections for reading in schools , we have " a key of thetorical notation " attached to the pieces , informing the reader when to raise his voice and when to lower it- · vi when to ...
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... true Source of Reform , 34. Employment of Winter Evenings by the Young , 37. Character of Pitt , 38. Apostrophe to the Queen of France , 39. Story of the Siege of Calais , 40. The same Story continued , 42. America and Ireland , 43 ...
... true Source of Reform , 34. Employment of Winter Evenings by the Young , 37. Character of Pitt , 38. Apostrophe to the Queen of France , 39. Story of the Siege of Calais , 40. The same Story continued , 42. America and Ireland , 43 ...
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... true nature of an inflection , and the difference between an in- flection , and a sudden elevation or depression of the voice . TABLE OF INFLECTIONS . The acute accent ( ' ) denotes the rising inflection ; and the grave accent ( ) the ...
... true nature of an inflection , and the difference between an in- flection , and a sudden elevation or depression of the voice . TABLE OF INFLECTIONS . The acute accent ( ' ) denotes the rising inflection ; and the grave accent ( ) the ...
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... True ease in writing comes from art , not chance ; As those move easiest , who have learned to dance . ' Tis not enough , no harshness gives offence- The sound must seem an echo to the sense . Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows ...
... True ease in writing comes from art , not chance ; As those move easiest , who have learned to dance . ' Tis not enough , no harshness gives offence- The sound must seem an echo to the sense . Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows ...
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... true and just taste ; and must rise from feeling delicately ourselves , and from judging accurately of what is fittest to strike the feel- ings of others . Next to emphasis , the pauses in speaking demand at- tention . These are of two ...
... true and just taste ; and must rise from feeling delicately ourselves , and from judging accurately of what is fittest to strike the feel- ings of others . Next to emphasis , the pauses in speaking demand at- tention . These are of two ...
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Página 251 - tis his will : Let but the Commons hear this testament, (Which, pardon me, I do not mean to read,) And they would go and kiss dead Caesar's wounds, And dip their napkins...
Página 148 - And there lay the steed with his nostril all wide, But through it there roll'd not the breath of his pride : And the foam of his gasping lay white on the turf, And cold as the spray of the rock-beating surf. And there lay the rider distorted and pale, With the dew on his brow, and the rust on his mail ; And the tents were all silent, the banners alone, The lances unlifted, the trumpet unblown.
Página 125 - The applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes...
Página 244 - Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political: peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none: the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns, and the surest bulwarks against anti-republican tendencies...
Página 243 - If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
Página 72 - Ask yourselves how this gracious reception of our petition comports with those warlike preparations which cover our waters and darken our land. Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation? Have we shown ourselves so unwilling to be reconciled that force must be called in to win back our love ? Let us not deceive ourselves, sir.
Página 250 - Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; •> I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil, that men do, lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones; \ So let it be with Caesar.
Página 148 - Arve and Arveiron at thy base Rave ceaselessly ; but thou, most awful form, 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,...
Página 109 - And God set them in the firmament of heaven to give light upon the earth, And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
Página 249 - As Caesar loved me, I weep for him; as he was fortunate, I rejoice at it; as he was valiant, I honour him; but, as he was ambitious, I slew him.