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 Seiten |
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... close attention to , and practice of such rules as are fitted to advance the orator in his profession . Their schools for the study of eloquence were frequented by students from all parts of the known world . They established prizes to ...
... close attention to , and practice of such rules as are fitted to advance the orator in his profession . Their schools for the study of eloquence were frequented by students from all parts of the known world . They established prizes to ...
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... close con- versation . 3. The ordinary pitch or middle , suited to general conver- sation . 4. The elevated pitch , used only in earnest argument . 5. The extreme , used in violent passion . The lungs are to be kept always , to a ...
... close con- versation . 3. The ordinary pitch or middle , suited to general conver- sation . 4. The elevated pitch , used only in earnest argument . 5. The extreme , used in violent passion . The lungs are to be kept always , to a ...
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... coat , is discovered looking at himself in a small looking - glass , which he holds in his hands . Hob should wear a close - cropped , light - colored wig . Hob . I've half a mind to register an oath HOB AND NOB . 67 Hob and Nob,
... coat , is discovered looking at himself in a small looking - glass , which he holds in his hands . Hob should wear a close - cropped , light - colored wig . Hob . I've half a mind to register an oath HOB AND NOB . 67 Hob and Nob,
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... receipt for the last week's rent , sir , — Nob , ( produces a paper , and holds it close to Hob's face . ) Ditto , sir ! Hob , ( suddenly shouting . ) Thieves ! Nob . Murder ! Hob and Nob . Mr. Bouncer ! ( Each running HOB AND NOB . 75.
... receipt for the last week's rent , sir , — Nob , ( produces a paper , and holds it close to Hob's face . ) Ditto , sir ! Hob , ( suddenly shouting . ) Thieves ! Nob . Murder ! Hob and Nob . Mr. Bouncer ! ( Each running HOB AND NOB . 75.
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... close to Nob's face . ) Nob . An insult to my very face - under my very nose ! · ( Rubbing it . ) You know the consequences , sir , - instant satisfaction , sir ! Hob . With all my heart , sir . Mr. Bouncer ! Nob . Mr. Bouncer ! Mr ...
... close to Nob's face . ) Nob . An insult to my very face - under my very nose ! · ( Rubbing it . ) You know the consequences , sir , - instant satisfaction , sir ! Hob . With all my heart , sir . Mr. Bouncer ! Nob . Mr. Bouncer ! Mr ...
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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 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.
Seite 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?
Seite 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.
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 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.
Seite 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?
Seite 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.
Seite 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?
Seite 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.