The Exhibition Speaker: Containing Farces, Dialogues, and Tableaux, with Exercises for Declamation in Prose and VerseSheldon & Company, 1855 - 268 páginas |
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... appearance of penetrating even further than one which is loud , but badly articulated . Good articulation is not only conducive to the improvement of the voice in clearness and strength , but it is the criterion of a speaker's knowledge ...
... appearance of penetrating even further than one which is loud , but badly articulated . Good articulation is not only conducive to the improvement of the voice in clearness and strength , but it is the criterion of a speaker's knowledge ...
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... up " for characters . A constrained attitude must , on all occasions , be studiously avoided Let the speaker endeavor to act as if there were none present to observe his gestures or appearance his posi DESCRIPTION OF STAGE . 43.
... up " for characters . A constrained attitude must , on all occasions , be studiously avoided Let the speaker endeavor to act as if there were none present to observe his gestures or appearance his posi DESCRIPTION OF STAGE . 43.
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... appearance his posi tions wi . then be natural ones , and such ever are the most graceful . In gesturing , all angular movements must be dis carded : whatever the movement , it should be made in a curved line . Be careful not to make ...
... appearance his posi tions wi . then be natural ones , and such ever are the most graceful . In gesturing , all angular movements must be dis carded : whatever the movement , it should be made in a curved line . Be careful not to make ...
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... appearance , as if caused by weeping . To sink the eye , tinge the under ' id with burnt cork . Now apply a few wrinkles , and the face is " made up . " In representing old men , whiten the eyebrows and beard . A cropped , light ...
... appearance , as if caused by weeping . To sink the eye , tinge the under ' id with burnt cork . Now apply a few wrinkles , and the face is " made up . " In representing old men , whiten the eyebrows and beard . A cropped , light ...
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... appearance of a gentleman . ( Aside and looking at his dress . ) A little out at elbows , or so ; but never mind that — and if you would be so condescending- Sponge . Now he's coming to it . ( Aside . ) Dor . As to take a bit of dinner ...
... appearance of a gentleman . ( Aside and looking at his dress . ) A little out at elbows , or so ; but never mind that — and if you would be so condescending- Sponge . Now he's coming to it . ( Aside . ) Dor . As to take a bit of dinner ...
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articulation attention backboard bathing machines body Bouncer BULLIONS'S CALISTHENICS Carl Carlitz Chris Christine commencing position Coun Curtain Dalton Dame dear Demosthenes dinner Doric dumb-bells ELIJAH H Ellen English language Enter exercise Exit eyes father feel feet fingers foot forward friends front George GEORGE CROLY gesture give Graves Greece ground gymnastic hands happy heart Heaven heels Hob and Nob honor Human Voice Huon John JOHN F. W. HERSCHEL keep knee language leap legs letter Liberty look Margate Marinella Measureton mind never orator pauses pitch placed pole poor practice Price proper pupil raised Rens Renslaus scene shoulders side sizar Soldier sound speak Sponge stage sweet syllables TABLEAU TABLEAUX VIVANTS teacher tell thee There's thing thou toes tones turned voice waiter Wideacre word marked young youth Zounds
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Página 192 - 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 original...
Página 136 - ... 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.
Página 136 - O, it offends me to the soul, to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings; who, for the most part, are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows, and noise: I would have such a fellow whipped for o'erdoing Termagant; it out-herods Herod: Pray you, avoid it.
Página 191 - That Union we reached only by the discipline of our virtues in the severe school of adversity. It had its origin in the necessities of disordered finance, prostrate commerce, and ruined credit. Under its benign influences, these great interests immediately awoke as from the dead, and sprang forth with newness of life.
Página 192 - Liberty first and Union afterwards ; but everywhere, spread all over in characters of living light, blazing on all its ample folds, as they float over the sea and over the land, and in every wind under the whole heavens, that other sentiment, dear to every true American heart, Liberty and Union, Now and Forever, One and Inseparable.
Página 191 - I have not allowed myself, sir, to look beyond the Union to see what might lie hidden in the dark recess behind. I have not coolly weighed the chances of preserving liberty when the bonds that unite us together shall be broken asunder. I have not. accustomed myself to hang over the precipice of disunion to see whether, with my short sight, I can fathom the depth of the abyss below...
Página 137 - Hath seal'd thee for herself: for thou hast been As one, in suffering all, that suffers nothing ; A man, that Fortune's buffets and rewards...
Página 136 - ... accent of Christians nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of Nature's journeymen had made men and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Página 133 - But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison-house, I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, : Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres, Thy knotted and combined locks to part And each particular hair to stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine : But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood.
Página 134 - Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast, With witchcraft of his wit, with traitorous gifts, — O wicked wit and gifts, that have the power So to seduce! — won to his shameful lust The will of my most seeming-virtuous queen: 0 Hamlet, what a falling-off was there!