Pieces to Speak...declamations and Dialogues...with Helpful Notes as to DeliveryBardeen, 1897 - 192 páginas |
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... fall on the word " low " at the end of line four . The next three lines all end with a rising in- flection , and the voice falls again on " way . " There is . here a contrast between rushes , moss , grass , sunbeams , and dew , on one ...
... fall on the word " low " at the end of line four . The next three lines all end with a rising in- flection , and the voice falls again on " way . " There is . here a contrast between rushes , moss , grass , sunbeams , and dew , on one ...
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THERE is danger , in speaking this piece , of falling into a sing - song tone of voice . Be especially careful not to pause at the end of a line , unless the sense re- quires it . For example , in the second line , say , " Where the ...
THERE is danger , in speaking this piece , of falling into a sing - song tone of voice . Be especially careful not to pause at the end of a line , unless the sense re- quires it . For example , in the second line , say , " Where the ...
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... falls vrom his chair , Und gifes mine Katrina von derrible schkare ; Mine hair shtands like shquills on a mat borcubine Ven I dinks off dose pranks off dot baby off mine . Dere vas someding , you pet , I don'd likes pooty vell ; To hear ...
... falls vrom his chair , Und gifes mine Katrina von derrible schkare ; Mine hair shtands like shquills on a mat borcubine Ven I dinks off dose pranks off dot baby off mine . Dere vas someding , you pet , I don'd likes pooty vell ; To hear ...
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... falls ! No ! no ! Still on , still up the cliff , still on toward the fortress . The rider turns his face and shouts , " Come on , men of Quebec ! come on ! " That call is needless . Already the bold riflemen are on the rock . Now ...
... falls ! No ! no ! Still on , still up the cliff , still on toward the fortress . The rider turns his face and shouts , " Come on , men of Quebec ! come on ! " That call is needless . Already the bold riflemen are on the rock . Now ...
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... fall after the word " contended . " There is a slight pause there , but not a full stop . Long pauses must be made after " behind " and " before . " Salamis was the name of the place near which Xerxes was finally defeated by the Greeks ...
... fall after the word " contended . " There is a slight pause there , but not a full stop . Long pauses must be made after " behind " and " before . " Salamis was the name of the place near which Xerxes was finally defeated by the Greeks ...
Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 42 - I have commanded you, and lo ! I am with you alway, even to the end of the world.
Página 141 - If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged. Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable, and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come! " It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry peace, peace; but there is no peace.
Página 74 - THE mountain and the squirrel Had a quarrel ; And the former called the latter ' Little Prig '. Bun replied, ' You are doubtless very big ; But all sorts of things and weather Must be taken in together, To make up a year And a sphere. And I think it no disgrace 10 To occupy my place.
Página 192 - HEATEN is not reached at a single bound, But we build the ladder by which we rise From the lowly earth to the vaulted skies, And we mount to its summit round by round. I count this thing to be grandly true ; That a noble deed is a step toward God, Lifting the soul from the common, sod, To a purer air and a broader view.
Página 189 - Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us, Footprints on the sands of time; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.
Página 191 - So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan, which moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
Página 38 - IT was the calm and silent night ! Seven hundred years and fifty-three Had Rome been growing up to might, And now was queen of land and sea. No sound was heard of clashing wars — Peace brooded o'er the hushed domain ; Apollo, Pallas, Jove, and Mars Held undisturbed their ancient reign. In the solemn midnight, Centuries ago.
Página 123 - em slips, Huldy sot pale ez ashes, All kin* o' smily roun' the lips An' teary roun' the lashes. For she was jes' the quiet kind Whose naturs never vary, Like streams that keep a summer mind Snowhid in Jenooary. The blood clost roun...
Página 192 - Helps make the soul immortal. Longing is God's fresh heavenward will With our poor earthward striving ; We quench it that we may be still Content with merely living; But, would we learn that heart's full scope Which we are hourly wronging, Our lives must climb from hope to hope And realize our longing. Ah ! let us hope that to our praise Good God not only reckons The moments when we tread his ways, But when the spirit beckons, — That some slight good is also wrought Beyond self-satisfaction, When...
Página 122 - An' leetle flames danced all about The chiny on the dresser. Agin the chimbley crook-necks hung, An' in amongst 'em rusted The ole queen's-arm thet gran'ther Young Fetched back from Concord busted. The very room, coz she was in, Seemed warm from floor to ceilin', An' she looked full ez rosy agin Ez the apples she was peelin'.