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... seeking to reduce to practice , the lessons taught in most of the well known works on the art of Elocution , that they are of very little real service in the time of need . In most cases instead of being " Helps " they actually become ...
... seeking to reduce to practice , the lessons taught in most of the well known works on the art of Elocution , that they are of very little real service in the time of need . In most cases instead of being " Helps " they actually become ...
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... seek to draw out and cultivate this special " forte , " so that it may appear to the best advantage . Such being the case , it will be self - evident that while the " Comic " style will suit one , the " Tragic " will be equally suitable ...
... seek to draw out and cultivate this special " forte , " so that it may appear to the best advantage . Such being the case , it will be self - evident that while the " Comic " style will suit one , the " Tragic " will be equally suitable ...
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... seeking to repro- duce their performance , seek to develop and expand your own powers to the very best of your ability ; and in this way , and this only , will you feel that you are doing either justice to yourself , or the subject to ...
... seeking to repro- duce their performance , seek to develop and expand your own powers to the very best of your ability ; and in this way , and this only , will you feel that you are doing either justice to yourself , or the subject to ...
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... seeking thus to thoroughly understand what you wish to recite . Read over and over again slowly and carefully every word , and pause now and then to ask yourself , " Do I know what that sentence means ? " or " Do I know the proper ...
... seeking thus to thoroughly understand what you wish to recite . Read over and over again slowly and carefully every word , and pause now and then to ask yourself , " Do I know what that sentence means ? " or " Do I know the proper ...
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... seek the life of any citizen , & c . I shall judge of your parts by your speaking gracefully or ungracefully . There is also what is called the emphasis of sense , where the stress or force which we give to words is in contradis ...
... seek the life of any citizen , & c . I shall judge of your parts by your speaking gracefully or ungracefully . There is also what is called the emphasis of sense , where the stress or force which we give to words is in contradis ...
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Page 60 - For I can raise no money by vile means: By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring From the hard hands of peasants their' vile trash By any indirection.
Page 82 - 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 186 - 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...
Page 152 - God ! sing, ye meadow-streams, with gladsome voice! Ye pine-groves, with your soft and soul-like sounds ! And they, too, have a voice, yon piles of snow, And in their perilous fall, shall thunder, God...
Page 65 - I'll leave you till night; you are welcome to Elsinore. Ros. Good my lord ! [Exeunt Rosencrantz and Giiildenstern. Ham. Ay, so, God be wi' ye :—Now I am alone. O, what a rogue and 'peasant slave am I ! Is it not monstrous that this player here, But in a fiction, in a dream of passion, Could force his soul so to his own conceit...
Page 57 - WE watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life . Kept heaving to and fro. So silently we...
Page 151 - Risest from forth thy silent sea of pines, How silently ! Around thee and above Deep is the air and dark, substantial, black, An ebon mass : methinks thou piercest it As with a wedge ! But when I look again, It is thine own calm home, thy crystal shrine, Thy habitation from eternity ' 0 dread and silent Mount ! I gazed upon thee Till thou, still present to the bodily sense, Didst vanish from my thought : entranced in prayer 1 worshipped the Invisible alone.
Page 72 - The angels, not half so happy in heaven, Went envying her and me; Yes! that was the reason (as all men know, In this kingdom by the sea) That the wind came out of the cloud by night, Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.
Page 82 - O, young Lochinvar is come out of the west, Through all the wide Border his steed was the best ; And save his good broad-sword he weapon had none, He rode all unarmed, and he rode all alone. So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war, There never was knight like the young Lochinvar.
Page 21 - One touch to her hand, and one word in her ear. When they reached the hall door, and the charger stood near; So light to the croupe the fair lady he swung, So light to the saddle before her he sprung! "She is won! we are gone, over bank, bush, and scaur: They'll have fleet steeds that follow,