The Science and Art of Elocution, Or How to Read and Speak: Embracing a Comprehensive and Systematic Series of Exercises for Gesture Calisthenics and the Cultivation of the Voice; with a Collection of Nearly One Hundred and Fifty Literary Gems for Reading Or SpeakingJ.E. Potter, 1878 |
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... Laughing in Meeting . · Launch of the Ship , The . Legend of Bregenz . Little Black - eyed Rebel . Little Jim .. .. . • · • · • Mabel ; or , The Face Against the Pane Maclaine's Child . • Magdalena ; or , the Spanish Duel . Maiden ...
... Laughing in Meeting . · Launch of the Ship , The . Legend of Bregenz . Little Black - eyed Rebel . Little Jim .. .. . • · • · • Mabel ; or , The Face Against the Pane Maclaine's Child . • Magdalena ; or , the Spanish Duel . Maiden ...
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... laugh from the brook that runs to the sea . 1 come from haunts of coot and hern ; I make a sudden sally , And sparkle out among the fern , To bicker down a valley . The Final Stress ( < ) is an explosive force THEORY OF ELOCUTION . 39 ...
... laugh from the brook that runs to the sea . 1 come from haunts of coot and hern ; I make a sudden sally , And sparkle out among the fern , To bicker down a valley . The Final Stress ( < ) is an explosive force THEORY OF ELOCUTION . 39 ...
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... laughter , in the broken voice of sorrow , and in imitation of the feeble voice of old age . I. 2 . EXAMPLES . Ho , why dost thou shiver and shake , Gaffer Gray , And why does thy nose look so blue ? " ' Tis the weather is cold , ' tis ...
... laughter , in the broken voice of sorrow , and in imitation of the feeble voice of old age . I. 2 . EXAMPLES . Ho , why dost thou shiver and shake , Gaffer Gray , And why does thy nose look so blue ? " ' Tis the weather is cold , ' tis ...
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... laugh , rise , sink , blow , roll , murmur , titter , babble , gush , burst , dash , dance , breathe , ripple — these and all similar words may be ren- dered infinitely more expressive by giving each word its own peculiar individual ...
... laugh , rise , sink , blow , roll , murmur , titter , babble , gush , burst , dash , dance , breathe , ripple — these and all similar words may be ren- dered infinitely more expressive by giving each word its own peculiar individual ...
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... laughing exercise , page 58 , will be found . valuable . Enter into it with spirit , as a health exercise . The vowel sounds on page 21 may all be used in the same exercise , prefixing " h " to each sound in turn . Exercise 15 , on page ...
... laughing exercise , page 58 , will be found . valuable . Enter into it with spirit , as a health exercise . The vowel sounds on page 21 may all be used in the same exercise , prefixing " h " to each sound in turn . Exercise 15 , on page ...
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arms beauty BELFRY OF GHENT bells beneath blood bootblack bosom brave breast breath Bregenz bright brow Carthaginians Cataract of Lodore Charco child cloud cold cried dark dead dear death deep Don Camillo door earth echoes Elocution English exercise eyes face fair father feet fire flashing gesture give grave hand Hark hath head hear heard heart heaven helmet of Navarre Henry of Navarre Jim Doyle labio-dental land Lars Porsena laugh light lips looked Lord loud Maud Muller mother never night o'er pale pray prayer ring river river Lee roar round sail Saladin Santa Claus shout silence smile song Sophia soul sound speak spirit stand stood storm sweet swell tears tell thee There's thing thou thought thunder Toll tone Twas vocal voice waters wave wild wind words
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Сторінка 96 - 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...
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Сторінка 96 - ... 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! Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic, now known and honored throughout the earth, still full high advanced, its arms and trophies streaming in their original lustre, not a stripe erased or polluted, nor a single star obscured,...
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