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 strán (strany) |
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Strana 6
... follow in their proper places . RULE II . Let your PRONUNCIATION be Bold and Forcible . An insipid flatness and languor is almost the universal fault in reading , and even public speakers often suffer their words to drop from their lips ...
... follow in their proper places . RULE II . Let your PRONUNCIATION be Bold and Forcible . An insipid flatness and languor is almost the universal fault in reading , and even public speakers often suffer their words to drop from their lips ...
Strana 10
... follow his own understanding and feelings . The most common faults respecting emphasis are laying so strong an emphasis on one word as to leave no power of giving a particular force to other words , which , though not equally , are in a ...
... follow his own understanding and feelings . The most common faults respecting emphasis are laying so strong an emphasis on one word as to leave no power of giving a particular force to other words , which , though not equally , are in a ...
Strana 11
... follow , or enabling the speaker to alter the tone or height of the 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 ...
... follow , or enabling the speaker to alter the tone or height of the 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 ...
Strana 13
... follow from the course we proposed . We foresaw , that our countrymen were to fall in the meditated conflict , and that American blood was to stream afresh . Nor were we unmindful of the expenditure of public treasure . And what cost me ...
... follow from the course we proposed . We foresaw , that our countrymen were to fall in the meditated conflict , and that American blood was to stream afresh . Nor were we unmindful of the expenditure of public treasure . And what cost me ...
Strana 43
... follow it . They are not of a school , in which insurrection is taught as a virtue . They will not seek promotion through the paths of sedition , nor qualify themselves to serve their country in any of the high departments , of its ...
... follow it . They are not of a school , in which insurrection is taught as a virtue . They will not seek promotion through the paths of sedition , nor qualify themselves to serve their country in any of the high departments , of its ...
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The American Orator: Comprising a Collection Principally from American ... Joshua P. Slack Úplné zobrazenie - 1824 |
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Strana 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!
Strana 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!
Strana 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.
Strana 177 - He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.
Strana 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.
Strana 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...
Strana 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...
Strana 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...