The Orator's Manual: A Practical and Philosophical Treatise on Vocal Culture, Emphasis and Gesture, Together with Selections for Declamation and Reading : Designed as a Text-book for Schools and Colleges, and for Public Speakers and Readers who are Obliged to Study Without an Instructor |
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... fingers upon his instrument . Such things as these , before his performance can be easy , natural , expressive and effective , must be done automatically , as a result of persistent prac- tice . So in Oratory . Certain things must be ...
... fingers upon his instrument . Such things as these , before his performance can be easy , natural , expressive and effective , must be done automatically , as a result of persistent prac- tice . So in Oratory . Certain things must be ...
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... Finger and Fist § 173 ; of Double.Gestures § 174. Chart showing Significance of Gestures § 175. Methods of forming Gestures , Illustrations , § 176 ; Movements Preparatory for Gestures and their Sig- nificance § 180 ; Return and ...
... Finger and Fist § 173 ; of Double.Gestures § 174. Chart showing Significance of Gestures § 175. Methods of forming Gestures , Illustrations , § 176 ; Movements Preparatory for Gestures and their Sig- nificance § 180 ; Return and ...
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... fingers ; then , keeping the arms as near to the sides as possible , so as not to strain the lungs , and clinching the fingers , draw the fists against the shoulders and as far back as you can . Place each fist near its own shoulder ...
... fingers ; then , keeping the arms as near to the sides as possible , so as not to strain the lungs , and clinching the fingers , draw the fists against the shoulders and as far back as you can . Place each fist near its own shoulder ...
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... fingers pointing forward , then throw shoulders ( not body ) forward so as to keep the chest down , and with fingers gently drawing apart the lower ribs below the breast bone- II . Expand , first , lower side ribs , then ( throwing ...
... fingers pointing forward , then throw shoulders ( not body ) forward so as to keep the chest down , and with fingers gently drawing apart the lower ribs below the breast bone- II . Expand , first , lower side ribs , then ( throwing ...
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... fingers | close || And yet to feel | so lonely ! In connection with pauses , see Massing , § 152 ; especially what is said of the emphatic tye , § 153 . QUANTITY . 39. Quantity , as this term is technically used in elo- cution , refers ...
... fingers | close || And yet to feel | so lonely ! In connection with pauses , see Massing , § 152 ; especially what is said of the emphatic tye , § 153 . QUANTITY . 39. Quantity , as this term is technically used in elo- cution , refers ...
Common terms and phrases
arms Arnold von Winkelried aspirate banquet song blood brave breast breath Cæsar circumflex conditional mood cried death downward earth elbow emphasis emphatic express expulsive falling inflection father feel Finger gesture fingers force gentlemen gesture give glory grave Greece h RC hand hear heart heaven helmet of Navarre Henry of Navarre honor idem idem idem imperative mood Ireland Itály liberty light lips Lochinvar look Lord loud median stress medium pitch melody mouth move movement nation Netherby never noble o'er orotund pass pause position principle Roman Rússia Semitonic sentence side slow smile soft sound Spartacus spirit stood sustained syllables tell terminal stress thee thou thought tion tone uttered voice vowel waist wave words wrist Ꭱ Ꮎ Ꭱ Ꮯ
Popular passages
Page 286 - And heard, with voice as trumpet loud, Bozzaris cheer his band: "Strike — till the last armed foe expires; Strike — for your altars and your fires ; Strike — for the green graves of your sires, God, and your native land...
Page 309 - To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language ; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware.
Page 87 - Hear the sledges with the bells, Silver bells ! What a world of merriment their melody foretells ! 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...
Page 30 - What think ye of Christ? whose son is he? They say unto him, The son of David. He saith unto them, How then doth David in Spirit call him Lord, saying, The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool? If David then call him Lord, how is he his son...
Page 247 - ... 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.
Page 283 - THE WRECK OF THE HESPERUS. IT was the schooner Hesperus, That sailed the wintry sea ; And the skipper had taken his little daughter, To bear him company.
Page 56 - They are like unto children sitting in the market-place, and calling one to another, and saying, "We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced ; we have mourned to you, and ye have not wept.
Page 292 - But the Consul's brow was sad, And the Consul's speech was low, And darkly looked he at the wall, And darkly at the foe: "Their van will be upon us Before the bridge goes down; And if they once may win the bridge, What hope to save the town?
Page 30 - Faithful are the wounds of a friend ; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
Page 306 - Arve and Arveiron at thy base Rave ceaselessly; but thou, most awful form! 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....