Choice Readings for Public and Private Entertainments and for the Use of Schools, Colleges and Public Readers with Elocutionary AdviceRobert McLean Cumnock A.C. McClurg, 1913 - 601 pagina's |
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... fear ) some careless speakers give the vowel a sound that verges toward short i , while others pronounce the vowel with a sound resembling caret â . LIST OF WORDS FOR PRACTICE ēke near believe dreary appearing experience feet peer ...
... fear ) some careless speakers give the vowel a sound that verges toward short i , while others pronounce the vowel with a sound resembling caret â . LIST OF WORDS FOR PRACTICE ēke near believe dreary appearing experience feet peer ...
Pagina 13
... fear , too much to the easy way of pronouncing words , and allowing ourselves to hold in light esteem some of the delicate distinctions in vowel sound that have given to cultivated speech its distinctive charm . The duty of the ...
... fear , too much to the easy way of pronouncing words , and allowing ourselves to hold in light esteem some of the delicate distinctions in vowel sound that have given to cultivated speech its distinctive charm . The duty of the ...
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... fear of indistinctness haunts him in every public effort , and keeps him keyed up to the most exacting demands of his audience . Since indistinctness may be overcome by industry , he can never forgive himself if he falls a victim to his ...
... fear of indistinctness haunts him in every public effort , and keeps him keyed up to the most exacting demands of his audience . Since indistinctness may be overcome by industry , he can never forgive himself if he falls a victim to his ...
Pagina 72
... Fear not each sudden sound and shock ; ' Tis of the wave , and not the rock ; ' Tis but the flapping of the sail , And not a rent made by the gale ! In spite of rock and tempest's roar , In spite of false lights on the shore , Sail on ...
... Fear not each sudden sound and shock ; ' Tis of the wave , and not the rock ; ' Tis but the flapping of the sail , And not a rent made by the gale ! In spite of rock and tempest's roar , In spite of false lights on the shore , Sail on ...
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Robert McLean Cumnock. Sail on , nor fear to breast the sea ! Our hearts , our hopes , are all with thee : Our hearts , our hopes , our prayers , our tears , Our faith triumphant o'er our fears , Are all with thee , - are all with thee ...
Robert McLean Cumnock. Sail on , nor fear to breast the sea ! Our hearts , our hopes , are all with thee : Our hearts , our hopes , our prayers , our tears , Our faith triumphant o'er our fears , Are all with thee , - are all with thee ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 566 - Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's Plutonian shore! Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken! Leave my loneliness unbroken ! quit the bust above my door! Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door ! " Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore." And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door; And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming, And the lamp-light o'er...
Pagina 142 - What objects are the fountains Of thy happy strain? What fields or waves or mountains? What shapes of sky or plain? What love of thine own kind? what ignorance of pain? With thy clear keen joyance Languor cannot be; Shadow of annoyance Never came near thee; Thou lovest, but ne'er knew love's sad satiety.
Pagina 284 - The tumult and the shouting dies — The captains and the kings depart — Still stands Thine ancient sacrifice, An humble and a contrite heart. Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget — lest we forget!
Pagina 355 - I SPRANG to the stirrup, and Joris, and he ; I galloped, Dirck galloped, we galloped all three ; " Good speed ! " cried the watch, as the gatebolts undrew ; "Speed...
Pagina 366 - Then out spake brave Horatius, The Captain of the gate : 'To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late; And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers And the temples of his Gods...
Pagina 516 - MINE eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord : He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored ; He hath loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword : His truth is marching on. I have seen him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps; They have builded him an altar in the evening dews and damps; I can read his righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps : His day is marching on. I have read a fiery gospel, writ in burnished rows of steel : "...
Pagina 383 - Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus, and we petty men "Walk under his huge legs and peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves.
Pagina 419 - O, young Lochinvar is come out of the west, Through all the wide Border his steed was the best ; And save his good broad-sword he weapon had none, He rode all unarmed, and he rode all alone. So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war, There never was knight like the young Lochinvar.
Pagina 188 - HAVE you heard of the wonderful one-hoss shay, That was built in such a logical way It ran a hundred years to a day, And then, of a sudden, it — ah, but stay, I'll tell you what happened without delay : Scaring the parson into fits. Frightening people out of their wits — Have you ever heard of that, I say ? Seventeen hundred and fifty-five : Georgius Secu'nius was then alive, — Snuffy old drone from the German hive.
Pagina 419 - So stately his form, and so lovely her face, That never a hall such a galliard did grace; While her mother did fret, and her father did fume, And the bridegroom stood dangling his bonnet and plume; And the bride-maidens whispered, " Twere better by far To have matched our fair cousin with young Lochinvar.