The Science and Art of Elocution and Oratory: Containing Specimens of the Eloquence of the Pulpit, the Bar, the Stage, the Legislative Hall, and the BattlefieldMason, Baker & Pratt, 1874 - 407 pàgines |
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Pàgina 46
... breath , open your mouth , and read " with the spirit and the understanding also . " 3. Ease of utterance , as well as gracefulness , is involved in these directions . DIRECTIONS FOR EXERCISE IN READING 1. " To be able to read well , is ...
... breath , open your mouth , and read " with the spirit and the understanding also . " 3. Ease of utterance , as well as gracefulness , is involved in these directions . DIRECTIONS FOR EXERCISE IN READING 1. " To be able to read well , is ...
Pàgina 50
... breathing forth of the soul , through the whole outward man , all his powers harmoniously blended in action , gives " That charm to delivery , that magical art , That thrills like a kiss , from the lip to the heart . " SPECIMENS FOR ...
... breathing forth of the soul , through the whole outward man , all his powers harmoniously blended in action , gives " That charm to delivery , that magical art , That thrills like a kiss , from the lip to the heart . " SPECIMENS FOR ...
Pàgina 68
... breath on the icy - bound stream , ' Twill vanish , ' twill melt like the forms in a dream , Released from the chain , like a child in its glee , " Twill flow on unbounded , unfettered , and free ; ' Twill leap on in joy , like a bird ...
... breath on the icy - bound stream , ' Twill vanish , ' twill melt like the forms in a dream , Released from the chain , like a child in its glee , " Twill flow on unbounded , unfettered , and free ; ' Twill leap on in joy , like a bird ...
Pàgina 91
... breath , by way of crowning the climax of vanity , bid the magnificent fire - ball to descend from its exalted and appropriate region , and perform its splendid tour along the surface of the earth ? 5. Talents , which are before the ...
... breath , by way of crowning the climax of vanity , bid the magnificent fire - ball to descend from its exalted and appropriate region , and perform its splendid tour along the surface of the earth ? 5. Talents , which are before the ...
Pàgina 92
... breath on the gale ; And the smile of her promise gave joy to the hours , And flush in her footsteps sprang herbage and flowers . 3. The skies , like a banner in sunset unroll'd , O'er the west threw their splendor of azure and gold ...
... breath on the gale ; And the smile of her promise gave joy to the hours , And flush in her footsteps sprang herbage and flowers . 3. The skies , like a banner in sunset unroll'd , O'er the west threw their splendor of azure and gold ...
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ANONYMOUS arms beautiful Blackletter bless blood bosom breath bright Brutus Cæsar Canute Capt cried dark dear dear doctor death Demosthenes dread dwell earth Elocution eloquence ergy eternal eyes fame FANNY FERN father fear feel fellow fire forever friends gentlemen give glory grave hand happy hast head hear heard heart heaven honor hope human human voice inflections land LESSON liberty light lips live look Lord Madame Roland mind mother mountain nation nature never noble o'er ocean Offa old oaken bucket once peace poor prangly Quiz roll round scene Sir Ch smile Snacks soul South Carolina speak speech spirit stand stars storm sweet tears tell thee thine thing thought throne Tom Long Twas Twill voice waves wife wild words young youth Zounds
Passatges populars
Pàgina 154 - When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last time, the sun in 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...
Pàgina 146 - Sir, we are not weak, if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. Three millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us.
Pàgina 58 - If we wish to be free, if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending, if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained, we must fight ; I repeat it. sir, we must fight ! An appeal to arms, and to the God of Hosts, is all that is left us ! They tell us, sir, that we are weak, unable to cope...
Pàgina 145 - Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation? Have we shown ourselves so unwilling to be reconciled that force must be called in to win back our love ? Let us not deceive ourselves, sir.
Pàgina 226 - 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...
Pàgina 145 - We have petitioned — we have remonstrated — we have supplicated — we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored its interposition, to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and parliament. Our petitions have been slighted ; our remonstrances have produced additional violence and insult ; our supplications have been disregarded ; and we have been spurned, with contempt, from the foot of the throne.
Pàgina 208 - Hark! They whisper: Angels say, Sister Spirit, come away. What is this absorbs me quite, Steals my senses, shuts my sight, Drowns my spirits, draws my breath?
Pàgina 225 - Dar'st thou, Cassius, now Leap in with me into this angry flood, And swim to yonder point?" Upon the word, Accoutred as I was, I plunged in And bade him follow; so indeed he did. The torrent roared, and we did buffet it With lusty sinews, throwing it aside And stemming it with hearts of controversy; But ere we could arrive the point proposed, Caesar cried, "Help me, Cassius, or I sink!
Pàgina 189 - I appeal to any white man to say, if ever he entered Logan's cabin hungry, and he gave him not meat, if ever he came cold and naked, and he clothed him not.
Pàgina 145 - Let us not deceive ourselves, sir. These are the implements of war and subjugation — the last arguments to which kings resort.