"Elocutionary Manual.": The Principles of Elocution, with Exercises and Notations, for Pronunciation, Intonation, Emphasis, Gesture and Emotional ExpressionJ. P. Burbank, 1878 - 243 pages |
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Page xiv
... darkness brooded over the face of the earth ; " Manner is the rolling globe launched in the flood of light , and beautified with hill and dale , ocean and streamlet , herb , and tree , and flower . Manner is the manifestation of all ...
... darkness brooded over the face of the earth ; " Manner is the rolling globe launched in the flood of light , and beautified with hill and dale , ocean and streamlet , herb , and tree , and flower . Manner is the manifestation of all ...
Page xxiv
... darker and more con- cealing in proportion to the lustre of the emphasis . Among speakers whose tones are adjusted by artificial rules , we look in vain for this " night side of nature , " this shadow of the illu- minated thought . Each ...
... darker and more con- cealing in proportion to the lustre of the emphasis . Among speakers whose tones are adjusted by artificial rules , we look in vain for this " night side of nature , " this shadow of the illu- minated thought . Each ...
Page 95
... darkness how profound ! Nor eye nor listening ear an object finds . Creation sleeps . ' Tis as the general pulse Of life stood still , and Nature made a pause , - An awful pause , prophetic of her end . OCCUPATION . Occupation cures at ...
... darkness how profound ! Nor eye nor listening ear an object finds . Creation sleeps . ' Tis as the general pulse Of life stood still , and Nature made a pause , - An awful pause , prophetic of her end . OCCUPATION . Occupation cures at ...
Page 97
... dark and guilty spirits , crowd- ing in fearful horror into the region of Hades . But a time is coming , when war shall be hated , reprobated , abhorred , and only remembered as a woe and a blight that has passed away for ever . WISDOM ...
... dark and guilty spirits , crowd- ing in fearful horror into the region of Hades . But a time is coming , when war shall be hated , reprobated , abhorred , and only remembered as a woe and a blight that has passed away for ever . WISDOM ...
Page 120
... dark , dark , dark , [ amid the blaze of noon , | Irrevocably dark - total eclipse- mon 28 Without all hope of day ! | O , first created beam , and thou , great Word , st.or tr pl Let there be light , " and 120 EXPRESSIVE EXERCISES .
... dark , dark , dark , [ amid the blaze of noon , | Irrevocably dark - total eclipse- mon 28 Without all hope of day ! | O , first created beam , and thou , great Word , st.or tr pl Let there be light , " and 120 EXPRESSIVE EXERCISES .
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