Lessons in Elocution ...Adams, Blackmer, & Lyon, 1865 - 240 Seiten |
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... stood at the helm . The flames burst forth The captain cried out through in a sheet of fire ; clouds of smoke arose . his trumpet : j " John Maynard ! ” k " Aye , aye , sir ! ” " Are you at the helm ? " Aye , aye , sir ! ” " How does ...
... stood at the helm . The flames burst forth The captain cried out through in a sheet of fire ; clouds of smoke arose . his trumpet : j " John Maynard ! ” k " Aye , aye , sir ! ” " Are you at the helm ? " Aye , aye , sir ! ” " How does ...
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... stood in his bright blue eye , j But still he answered , with a sigh , Excelsior ! 6. " Beware the pine - tree's withered branch ! Beware the awful avalanche ! " This was the peasant's last good - night , A voice replied , far up the ...
... stood in his bright blue eye , j But still he answered , with a sigh , Excelsior ! 6. " Beware the pine - tree's withered branch ! Beware the awful avalanche ! " This was the peasant's last good - night , A voice replied , far up the ...
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... stood ; ( per . ) " Another turn , men , so ! " ( desc . ) Calmly he aimed his pivot gun ; ( per . ) " Now , Tenny , let her go ! " ( des . ) Brave Randall leaped upon the gun , And waved his cap in sport ; ( per . ) " Well done ! Well ...
... stood ; ( per . ) " Another turn , men , so ! " ( desc . ) Calmly he aimed his pivot gun ; ( per . ) " Now , Tenny , let her go ! " ( des . ) Brave Randall leaped upon the gun , And waved his cap in sport ; ( per . ) " Well done ! Well ...
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... stood . Not in the morning alone , but at high noon , and at set of sun , day after day , sounds of heavenly harmony have gone from it , calling upon the oppressed and down - trodden to come , and to be free . Rude hands have been laid ...
... stood . Not in the morning alone , but at high noon , and at set of sun , day after day , sounds of heavenly harmony have gone from it , calling upon the oppressed and down - trodden to come , and to be free . Rude hands have been laid ...
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... stood fast . " Fire ! " - out blazed the rifle - blast . It shivered the window , pane and sash ; It rent the banner with seam and gash . Quick as it fell from the broken staff , Dame Barbara snatched the silken scarf ; She leaned far ...
... stood fast . " Fire ! " - out blazed the rifle - blast . It shivered the window , pane and sash ; It rent the banner with seam and gash . Quick as it fell from the broken staff , Dame Barbara snatched the silken scarf ; She leaned far ...
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Lessons in Elocution: With Numerous Selections, Analyzed for Practice Allen A. Griffith Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2022 |
Lessons in Elocution: With Numerous Selections, Analyzed for Practice Allen A. Griffith Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2022 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Abraham Lincoln angel apple-tree arms Aspirate Bardell beautiful bells blood bold Books brave breath Cæsar called cartilages child circumflexes cried dark death District Dred Scott drum earth elements elocution Excelsior expression eyes fall father fire flag Fool force Forward freedom gesture give glory glottis Government hand head heart heaven High pitch honor human inflections land larynx liberty light lips live look loud low pitch Merchant of Venice mother motley Fool narrative nation never Nevermore Niagara River night o'er Orotund patriotism pause personation Pickwick Pompey principles pure voice Qualities of voice quick Quoth the raven reading reply School shout slave slavery slow smile soldier soul sound speaking spirit stand stars stood student Sub-Vocal Teachers tears tell Tennessee thee thou tone tremor Union utterance vocal wind words woul't young
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 187 - Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore,— " Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou," I said, " art sure no craven, Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore: Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore !" Quoth the Raven,
Seite 94 - What a gush of euphony voluminously wells! How it swells How it dwells On the Future ; how it tells Of the rapture that impels To the swinging and the ringing Of the bells, bells, bells, Of the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells— To the rhyming and the chiming of the bells!
Seite 49 - I conjure you, by that which you profess, (Howe'er you come to know it,) answer me : Though you untie the winds, and let them fight Against the churches ; though the yesty waves Confound and swallow navigation up; Though bladed corn be lodg'd, and trees blown down; Though castles topple on their warders...
Seite 66 - Dost thou come here to whine ? To outface me with leaping in her grave ? Be buried quick with her, and so will I : And, if thou prate of mountains, let them throw Millions of acres on us, till our ground, Singeing his pate against the burning zone, Make Ossa like a wart ! Nay, an thou'lt mouth, I'll rant as well as thou.
Seite 35 - 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. Under its benign influences, these great interests immediately awoke, as from the dead, and sprang forth with newness of life.
Seite 41 - ... 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 187 - or Madam, truly your forgiveness I implore; But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping, And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door, That I scarce was sure I heard you' - here I opened wide the door; Darkness there and nothing more.
Seite 36 - I have not allowed myself, sir, to look beyond the union, to see what might lie hidden in the dark recess behind. I have not coolly weighed the chances of preserving liberty when the bonds that unite us together shall be broken asunder. I have not accustomed myself to hang over the precipice of disunion, to see whether, •with my short sight, I can fathom the depth of the abyss below...
Seite 36 - 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 93 - How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night, While the stars that oversprinkle All the heavens seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight. Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells From the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells— From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.