Primer of Elocution and ActionE.S. Werner, 1890 - 127 pagine |
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28 West action Address the Publisher ALFRED TENNYSON articulation attitude audience bä bä bä body breath Bret Harte called CHARLES MACKAY chest circumflex climax consonants EDGAR elocution emotion emphasis emphatic word example EXERCISE EXERCISE III expression falling inflection feel feet fingers flexibility Folding forearm front gestures give gymnastics hand Illustrations indicates instance Irwin Russell JEAN INGELOW larynx LESSON Lesson-Talk lips lungs meaning mind MORELL MACKENZIE mouth movement muscles Music naturally object Oppositions outward palm pantomime Paul Revere pause phrase pitch pivot Play uppe Poem postpaid Practise Price pronunciation pupils recitation relaxed ROBERT BROWNING sentence Shakespeare shoulders side Singing slowly sound speak speaker Speaker's Position speech Story strong syllable teacher thistles THOMAS HOOD thou timidity tion tone tongue various Visible Speech Vocal Vocal Ligaments voice vowel vowel-sounds weakness weight WERNER West 23d St West 23d Street
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Pagina 54 - To overrun them with the mercenary sons of rapine and plunder ; devoting them and their possessions to the rapacity of hireling cruelty ! If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms — never — never — never...
Pagina 64 - Why, hear you, my masters: was it for me to kill the heir-apparent? should I turn upon the true prince? why, thou knowest I am as valiant as Hercules: but beware instinct; the lion will not touch the true prince. Instinct is a great matter ; I was now a coward on instinct I shall think the better of myself and thee during my life ; I for a valiant lion, and thou for a true prince.
Pagina 101 - A hurry of hoofs in a village street, A shape in the moonlight, a bulk in the dark, And beneath, from the pebbles, in passing, a spark Struck out by a steed flying fearless and fleet. That was all! And yet, through the gloom and the light, The fate of a nation was riding that night; And the spark struck out by that steed, in his flight, Kindled the land into flame with its heat.
Pagina 77 - Shylock, we would have moneys:' you say so; You, that did void your rheum upon my beard And foot me as you spurn a stranger cur Over your threshold : moneys is your suit. What should I say to you ? Should I not say 'Hath a dog money? is it possible A cur can lend three thousand ducats?
Pagina 76 - Part we in friendship from your land, And, noble Earl, receive my hand." — But Douglas round him drew his cloak, Folded his arms, and thus he spoke : — " My manors, halls, and bowers, shall still Be open, at my sovereign's will, To each one whom he...
Pagina 62 - As if dead priests were laughing in their stalls. At length the sexton, hearing from without The tumult of the knocking and the shout, And thinking thieves were in the house of prayer, Came with his lantern, asking, "Who is there?" Half choked with rage, King Robert fiercely said, "Open: 'tis I, the King! Art thou afraid?
Pagina 101 - ... That he shouts with his sister at play ! O well for the sailor lad, That he sings in his boat on the bay ! And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill ; But O for the touch of a...
Pagina 77 - OH, where is the knight or the squire so bold, As to dive to the howling charybdis below? — I cast in the whirlpool a goblet of gold, And o'er it already the dark waters flow; Whoever to me may the goblet bring, Shall have for his guerdon that gift of his king.
Pagina 47 - My very noble and approved good masters, — That I have ta'en away this old man's daughter, It is most true ; true, I have married her ; The very head and front of my offending Hath this extent, no more. Rude am I in my speech, And little bless'd with the soft phrase of peace ; For since these arms of mine had seven years...
Pagina 93 - Men say it was a stolen tyde — The Lord that sent it, He knows all ; But in myne ears doth still abide The message that the bells let fall : And there was naught of strange, beside The flights of mews and peewits pied By millions crouched on the old sea wall.