The Standard Speaker & Elocutionist ...Ward, Lock and Company, 1880 - 248 páginas |
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Página 82
... have no pain , dear mother , now ; but , O , I am so dry ! Just moisten poor Jim's lips again ; and . mother , don't ye cry . " With gentle , trembling haste , she held the liquid 82 The Standard Speaker and Elocutionist .
... have no pain , dear mother , now ; but , O , I am so dry ! Just moisten poor Jim's lips again ; and . mother , don't ye cry . " With gentle , trembling haste , she held the liquid 82 The Standard Speaker and Elocutionist .
Página 83
... poor " Little Jim ! " It would be easy to multiply examples ; but these , we think , will be sufficient to illustrate , to any thoughtful reader , the importance of doing everything possible to realise the author's meaning , so as to be ...
... poor " Little Jim ! " It would be easy to multiply examples ; but these , we think , will be sufficient to illustrate , to any thoughtful reader , the importance of doing everything possible to realise the author's meaning , so as to be ...
Página 90
... so successful in these times ( bad though they be ) as what has been formed on the Greek models . I use a very poor instance in giving my own experience ; but I do assure you that , both 90 The Standard Speaker and Elocutionist .
... so successful in these times ( bad though they be ) as what has been formed on the Greek models . I use a very poor instance in giving my own experience ; but I do assure you that , both 90 The Standard Speaker and Elocutionist .
Página 93
... poor finish . Strive heartily against this . Aim at driving home all the pent- up power at your disposal at the end . Take the following as a sample of one kind of peroration , and you will not wonder that it lives in the memory : - Sir ...
... poor finish . Strive heartily against this . Aim at driving home all the pent- up power at your disposal at the end . Take the following as a sample of one kind of peroration , and you will not wonder that it lives in the memory : - Sir ...
Página 95
... poor handful of earth that lies mouldering before him ! The grave of those we loved - what a place for meditation ! There it is that we call up in long review the whole history of virtue and gentleness , and the thousand endearments ...
... poor handful of earth that lies mouldering before him ! The grave of those we loved - what a place for meditation ! There it is that we call up in long review the whole history of virtue and gentleness , and the thousand endearments ...
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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,