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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... friends , which have been justly popular with those for whose use they were intended , and productive of good equal to the highest expectations of all interested in their adoption and success . Believing , however , that there yet ...
... friends , which have been justly popular with those for whose use they were intended , and productive of good equal to the highest expectations of all interested in their adoption and success . Believing , however , that there yet ...
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... of Exhibition Day , Catiline to his Friends ,. Catiline's Defiance , · • Remorse , · - 43 43 43 43 49 67 90 114 · . 131 135 138 142 · 148 156 160 164 166 • 167 TABLEAUX VIVANTS PART II . No. 2. Washington's Dream of 8 CONTENTS .
... of Exhibition Day , Catiline to his Friends ,. Catiline's Defiance , · • Remorse , · - 43 43 43 43 49 67 90 114 · . 131 135 138 142 · 148 156 160 164 166 • 167 TABLEAUX VIVANTS PART II . No. 2. Washington's Dream of 8 CONTENTS .
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... friends of education , that , while the mind is being prepared by a grad- ual development of its powers to exert , when matured , all the faculties wherewith it was endowed , it should not be forced in its growth , or subjected to ...
... friends of education , that , while the mind is being prepared by a grad- ual development of its powers to exert , when matured , all the faculties wherewith it was endowed , it should not be forced in its growth , or subjected to ...
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... friends ; then , versed in your profession , if you call to your aid the magic charm of that oratory which convinces and subdues by its exercise , moving to mercy the stern law , rescuing from its grasp an innocent victim and restoring ...
... friends ; then , versed in your profession , if you call to your aid the magic charm of that oratory which convinces and subdues by its exercise , moving to mercy the stern law , rescuing from its grasp an innocent victim and restoring ...
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... friend . His friend should be placed at first , at such a distance as he may be able to reach in his usual manner ; the distance is then gradually to be increased , till he shall be so far from him that he can not be heard beyond him ...
... friend . His friend should be placed at first , at such a distance as he may be able to reach in his usual manner ; the distance is then gradually to be increased , till he shall be so far from him that he can not be heard beyond him ...
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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.