Natural Drills in Expression, with Selectins: 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 |
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... demand attack such as Command , Authority , Assertion , Denial , and the like ; if volume of voice is needed , the pupil may be given drills calling for emotions of breadth such as those under Sublimity , Defiance , and so on ; if ...
... demand attack such as Command , Authority , Assertion , Denial , and the like ; if volume of voice is needed , the pupil may be given drills calling for emotions of breadth such as those under Sublimity , Defiance , and so on ; if ...
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... demand . 3. Feeling is the Soul of Utterance .-- Without the true rendering of feeling there will be monotony . Feeling gives life , energy , variety , interest . 4. The Symbol that Conveys Feeling to the Listener is Tone . - Listening ...
... demand . 3. Feeling is the Soul of Utterance .-- Without the true rendering of feeling there will be monotony . Feeling gives life , energy , variety , interest . 4. The Symbol that Conveys Feeling to the Listener is Tone . - Listening ...
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... purest creations . Conception then demands a clear understanding of the United Aim . Without it a student is a ship without a rudder ; he will drift . 3. The United Aim Comprises Both a Dominant Thought and 74 NATURAL DRILLS IN EXPRESSION.
... purest creations . Conception then demands a clear understanding of the United Aim . Without it a student is a ship without a rudder ; he will drift . 3. The United Aim Comprises Both a Dominant Thought and 74 NATURAL DRILLS IN EXPRESSION.
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... demand that the par- ticular feeling or its tone shall be written down . A student will often know the feeling aright , but be unequal to describ- ing it in words . ( e ) Writing down the feeling , however , insures greater accuracy and ...
... demand that the par- ticular feeling or its tone shall be written down . A student will often know the feeling aright , but be unequal to describ- ing it in words . ( e ) Writing down the feeling , however , insures greater accuracy and ...
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... demands it . If it be con- tended that this is debasing or cheapening literature the answer is that such contention is based on the absurd notion that everyday experiences are necessarily vulgar . It is surely not degrading literature ...
... demands it . If it be con- tended that this is debasing or cheapening literature the answer is that such contention is based on the absurd notion that everyday experiences are necessarily vulgar . It is surely not degrading literature ...
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a-Do a-Oh a-You Accent Drill Admiration agony arms awful b-You beauty Belshazzar blood breath Cæsar Classical Colloquial Contempt Coriolanus dark dead dear death Distinction Drill Dora doth earth Errors in Pronunciation expression eyes father fear feeling FELICIA HEMANS fool gentleman Gesler give glory Hamlet hand Harfleur hast hates hath hear heard heart heaven Henry Henry IV Henry VI Henry VIII honor indignation Julius Caesar King Lear kiss lady laughed liberty listener live look Lord Macbeth Merchant of Venice mind never night o'er Othello pause Practice Tone Drills prominence Richard Richard III Romeo and Juliet shame slaves sleep smile solemn Sometimes incorrectly sounded soul speak speaker spirit stand student sublime sweet Sword tears tell thee thine thing thou thought thousand tion tyrant United Aim Utter voice WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE words
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Page 317 - Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature...
Page 132 - Romans, countrymen, and lovers ! hear me for my cause; and be silent that you may hear : believe me for mine honour ; and have respect to mine honour, that you may believe : censure me in your wisdom ; and awake your senses that you may the better judge. If there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of Caesar's, to him I say, that Brutus' love to Caesar was no less than his.
Page 136 - twill be eleven ; And so from hour to hour we ripe and ripe, And then from hour to hour we rot and rot, And thereby hangs a tale.
Page 26 - Why should that name be sounded more than yours ? Write them together, yours is as fair a name ; Sound them, it doth become the mouth as well ; Weigh them, it is as heavy ; conjure with them, Brutus will start a spirit as soon as Caesar.
Page 272 - Ah ! then and there was hurrying to and fro, And gathering tears, and tremblings of distress, And cheeks all pale, which, but an hour ago, Blushed at the praise of their own loveliness ; And there were sudden partings, such as press The life from out young hearts, and choking sighs Which ne'er might be repeated...
Page 317 - ... accent of Christians, nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of Nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Page 239 - All murder'd : for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court, and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp...
Page 337 - Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests ; in all time, — Calm or convulsed, in breeze or gale or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark-heaving — boundless, endless, and sublime, The image of eternity, the throne Of the Invisible ; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made ; each zone Obeys thee ; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Page 207 - O that this too too solid flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew! Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd His canon 'gainst self-slaughter!
Page 333 - Caesar carelessly but nod on him. He had a fever when he was in Spain, And when the fit was on him, I did mark How he did shake : 'tis true, this god did shake : His coward lips did from their colour fly ; And that same eye, whose bend doth awe the world, Did lose his lustre.