The Exhibition Speaker Containing Farce Dialogue and Tableaux with Exercises for Declamation in Prose and Verse: Also, a Treatise on Oratory and Elocutions, Hints on Dramatic CharactersSheldon, Lamport & Blakeman, 1856 - 278 Seiten |
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... body , etc. were they indebted for a large portion of their success . They found that to work systematically was to insure them expeditious progress ; that the art of delivery must be studied with particular diligence . Pronunciation ...
... body , etc. were they indebted for a large portion of their success . They found that to work systematically was to insure them expeditious progress ; that the art of delivery must be studied with particular diligence . Pronunciation ...
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... body or volume . The Perfections . The compass . The soundness and durability . The opposite- Imperfections . Smallness , feebleness . The narrow scale . Weakness , liable to fail by exertion . In the Quality of the Voice . Clearness ...
... body or volume . The Perfections . The compass . The soundness and durability . The opposite- Imperfections . Smallness , feebleness . The narrow scale . Weakness , liable to fail by exertion . In the Quality of the Voice . Clearness ...
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... body or volume which the speaker or singer can give out . This depends upon the power of the lungs , and not upon the adjustment of the organs of articulation . A voice is powerful according to the quantity it is able to issue , and is ...
... body or volume which the speaker or singer can give out . This depends upon the power of the lungs , and not upon the adjustment of the organs of articulation . A voice is powerful according to the quantity it is able to issue , and is ...
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... body ; of the head , the shoulders , the body or trunk ; of the arms , hands , and fingers ; of the lower limbs , and of the feet . The graceful- ness of rhetorical action depends partly on the person , and partly on the mind . Most ...
... body ; of the head , the shoulders , the body or trunk ; of the arms , hands , and fingers ; of the lower limbs , and of the feet . The graceful- ness of rhetorical action depends partly on the person , and partly on the mind . Most ...
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... body into a proud , perfectly erect position . 2. Unfold and extend the arms , keeping the hands about eighteen inches apart , and allow them to remain thus until the sentence is completed to the word marked b . 3. Elevate the hands ...
... body into a proud , perfectly erect position . 2. Unfold and extend the arms , keeping the hands about eighteen inches apart , and allow them to remain thus until the sentence is completed to the word marked b . 3. Elevate the hands ...
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Arithmetic articulation bathing machines blessed body Bouncer Brandt CALISTHENICS Carl Carlitz cents Chris Christine close commencing position Coun Curtain Dalton Dame DAVID PATTERSON dear dinner Doric dumb-bells Ellen Enter Exit eyes father Feedwell feel feet fingers foot forward friends Frock coat George GEORGE CROLY gesture give Good-morning Graves Greece ground gymnastic HAMLET hands happy head erect heart Heaven heels Hob and Nob honor Huon John keep knee leap legs letter Liberty look Margate Marinella Measureton motions movement never Normal Readers pause pole poor practice pupil raised Rens Renslaus Richmond hill scene serf shoulders side sizar Soldier speak speaker Sponge sweet TABLEAU TABLEAUX VIVANTS teacher tell thee There's thing thou tion toes turned voice waiter Wideacre word marked young youth Zounds
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Seite 192 - When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last time, the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union ; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent ; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood...
Seite 133 - I am thy father's spirit; Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night, And for the day confined to fast in fires, Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature Are burnt and purged away.
Seite 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.
Seite 192 - Liberty first and Union afterwards ; but everywhere, spread all over in characters of living light, blazing on all its ample folds, as they float over the sea and over the land, and in every wind under the whole heavens, that other sentiment, dear to every true American heart, Liberty and Union, Now and Forever, One and Inseparable.
Seite 167 - What if this cursed hand Were thicker than itself with brother's blood, Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens To wash it white as snow?
Seite 136 - O, it offends me to the soul, to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings...
Seite 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.
Seite 136 - 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.
Seite 136 - Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor. Suit the action to the word, the word to the action, with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature.
Seite 167 - I'll look up ; My fault is past. But O, what form of prayer Can serve my turn ?