The American Orator: Comprising a Collection, Principally from American Authors, of the Most Admired Specimens of Congressional, Forensic, Pulpit and Popular Eloquence, with Dialogues and Poetical Extracts, Adapted to Public Recitation : and an Introduction, Embracing the Principle Rules Relating to Delivery and ActionPublished and sold by Daniel Fenton, Thomas T. Stiles, printer, 1815 - 324 sidor |
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... voice . But it is an essential qualification of a good speaker , to be able to alter the height , as well as the strength and the tone of his voice , as occasion requires . Different species of speaking require different heights of voice ...
... voice . But it is an essential qualification of a good speaker , to be able to alter the height , as well as the strength and the tone of his voice , as occasion requires . Different species of speaking require different heights of voice ...
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... voice . To acquire the power of changing the key on which you speak at pleasure , accustom yourself to pitch your voice in different keys , from the lowest to the highest notes you command . Many of those would neither be proper nor ...
... voice . To acquire the power of changing the key on which you speak at pleasure , accustom yourself to pitch your voice in different keys , from the lowest to the highest notes you command . Many of those would neither be proper nor ...
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... voice , which nature re- quires ; and it is for want of this previous study , more per- haps than from any other cause , that we so often hear persons read with an improper emphasis , or with no emphasis at all , that is , with a stupid ...
... voice , which nature re- quires ; and it is for want of this previous study , more per- haps than from any other cause , that we so often hear persons read with an improper emphasis , or with no emphasis at all , that is , with a stupid ...
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... HE , SHE , IT , AND , WE , YE , THEY , fright the soul . Emphasis is often destroyed by an injudicious attempt to read melodiously . Agreeable inflections and easy varia- tions of the voice , as far as they arise 10 INTRODUCTION .
... HE , SHE , IT , AND , WE , YE , THEY , fright the soul . Emphasis is often destroyed by an injudicious attempt to read melodiously . Agreeable inflections and easy varia- tions of the voice , as far as they arise 10 INTRODUCTION .
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... voice , some- times to make a very considerable pause , where the gramma- tical construction requires none at all . In doing this , howe- ver , it is necessary that in the word immediately preceding the pause , the voice be kept up in ...
... voice , some- times to make a very considerable pause , where the gramma- tical construction requires none at all . In doing this , howe- ver , it is necessary that in the word immediately preceding the pause , the voice be kept up in ...
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Sida 303 - O Woman ! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!
Sida 316 - Twas but a kindred sound to move, For pity melts the mind to love. Softly sweet, in Lydian measures, Soon he soothed his soul to pleasures. War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honour, but an empty bubble; Never ending, still beginning, Fighting still, and still destroying; If the world be worth thy winning, Think, O think it worth enjoying! Lovely Thais sits beside thee, Take the good the gods provide thee!
Sida 76 - ... who think that nothing exists but what is gross and material ; and who therefore, far from being qualified to be directors of the great movement of empire, are not fit to turn a wheel in the machine.
Sida 177 - He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.
Sida 322 - Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.
Sida 313 - When Cheerfulness, a nymph of healthiest hue, Her bow across her shoulder flung, Her buskins gem'd with morning dew, Blew an inspiring air, that dale and thicket rung, The hunter's call to Faun and Dryad known...
Sida 316 - The princes applaud with a furious joy: And the King seized a flambeau with zeal to destroy; Thais led the way To light him to his prey, And like another Helen fired another Troy...
Sida 314 - TWAS at the royal feast for Persia won By Philip's warlike son: Aloft in awful state The godlike hero sate On his imperial throne...