DRILLS IN EXPRESSION

WITI.

SELECTIONS

A SERIES OF EXERCISES COLLOQUIAL AND CLASSICAL,
BASED UPON THE PRINCIPLES OF REFERENCE TO
EXPERIENCE AND COMPARISON, AND CHOSEN FOR
THEIR PRACTICAL WORTH IN DEVELOPING POWER
AND NATURALNESS IN READING AND SPEAKING,
WITH ILLUSTRATIVE SELECTIONS FOR PRACTISE

BY

ARTHUR EDWARD PHILLIPS
Author of "Effective Speaking;' Director, Department of Public Speaking, the The.
ological Seminary of the Evangelical Lutheran Church at Chicago;

Principal, Phillips School of Oratory, Chicago

CHICAGO
THE NEWTON COMPANY

1923

COPYRIGHT, 1909

BY

ARTHUR EDWARD PHILLIPS

All rights reserved

CONTENTS.

PART 1-DRILLS

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INTRODUCTION—THE VALUE OF THE TONE DRILLS.

THE TONE DRILLS..

DEVELOPING SPECIFIC POWERS OF PORTRAYAL.

GENERAL DRILLS ON TONES..

TONE DRILLS FOR VOCAL DEVELOPMENT.

INTERPRETATION

Illustration of Toning a Selection.

Thought in Expression..

Drills in Prominence.

ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION.

Drills on Selected Consonants.

Accent Drill on Vowels.

Words Often Mispronounced

VOCA! DEVELOPMENT

VOCAL DRILLS.

BREATHING EXERCISES.

BODILY DEVELOPMENT AND RESPONSIVENESS.

METHOD OF STUDY AND PRACTICE OF EXPRESSION

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PART II-ILLUSTRATIVE SELECTIONS

STUDIES IN DOMINANT TONES.

EXPLANATION-

The Battlefield of Waterloo..

Hugo

The Bashful Man..

McKenzie

Othello's Defence

Shakespeare

GENIALITY-

Agreeable People..

T'almage

Henry V's Wooing.

Shakespeare

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ASSERTION-

A Gentleman..

Peaceful Agitation

Brutus's Speech in the Forum...

GAYETY-

Amusement.

Jaques on the Fool.

INTERROGATION-

English Treatment of Ireland..

Telemachus to the Allied Chiefs.

Shylock's Justification

SOLEMNITY—

Death of Copernicus.

From Thanatopsis

INDIGNATION-

Crossing the Rubicon.

Partition of Poland.

Rienzi to the Romans.

ADMIRATION-

The Ice Storm...

God and Beauty..

The Vale of Cashmere.

Cleopatra's Barge...

ARGUMENT—

The Present Age..

On the Being of a God.

Belial's Address..

AFFECTION-

The Star Spangled Banner.

Home.....

John Anderson, My Jo.

The Bells of Shandon.

COMMAND

The Bended Bow...

CALMNESS-

Evening...

The Day of Rest.

APPEAL

An Appeal for the Cause of Liberty.

Patriotic Appeal .

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Arthur's Appeal....

Shakespeare

Katherine's Appeal.

Shakespeare

AWE-

The Burning of Moscow.

Headley

Darkness..

. Byron

REPROOF-

Reproof of the Duke of Bedford... .Junius

Henry IV to His Son....

Shakespeare

COMPARISON AND CONTRAST-

Conservatism and Reform.

Emerson

Anglo-Saxon and American Civilizations... Bryan

Shylock on Tubal's News.

Shakespeare

CHALLENGE

Matches and Overmatches.

Webster

MODESTY-

The Saviors of the Nation.

.. Grant

BOLDNESS-

Lochinvar.

Scott

DETERMINATION-

Webster's Determination.....

Webster

On a Motion to Censure the Ministry. . Pitt

Prince Henry's Purposee.

Shakespeare

ENCOURAGEMENT-

The Onset.

Cornwall

Henry V Before Harfleur.

Shakespeare

ADVICE-

Free Speech...

Chapman ..

Polonius's Advice to Laertes.

Shakespeare

CLIMAX-

Liberty Under Law..

.Curtis

The Irish Aliens....

. Shiel

Marullus to the People.

Shakespeare

FRANKNESS,

Portia to Bassanio..

. Shakespeare

EXCITEMENT-

The Revolutionary Alarm.

Bancroft

The Ride to Aix....

. Browning

INDIFFERENCE-

What Care I?.

Wither

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