Studies in Elocution: A Wide and Choice Selection of Poetry and Prose for Reading and Recitation; with an Introductory Essay on the Art of Elocution and a Scheme of Vocal Exercises for Public Speakers, and for Use in Colleges, Schools and Elocution ClassesG. Philip & Son, 1908 - 387 pagina's |
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Pagina 57
... asked . There is a thing , Harry , which thou hast often heard of , and it is known to many in our land by the name of pitch : this pitch , as ancient writers do report , doth defile ; so doth the company thou keepest ; for , Harry ...
... asked . There is a thing , Harry , which thou hast often heard of , and it is known to many in our land by the name of pitch : this pitch , as ancient writers do report , doth defile ; so doth the company thou keepest ; for , Harry ...
Pagina 113
... asked , as time went on , Where her father could have gone : She had heard the muskets firing , she had counted every one , Till the number grew so many that it was too great a load ; Then the evening fell upon her , clear of sound of ...
... asked , as time went on , Where her father could have gone : She had heard the muskets firing , she had counted every one , Till the number grew so many that it was too great a load ; Then the evening fell upon her , clear of sound of ...
Pagina 148
... asked of every tree , " Oh , if you have ever a Singing Leaf , I pray you give it me ! " But the trees all kept their counsel , And never a word said they , Only there sighed from the pine - tops A music of seas far away . Only the ...
... asked of every tree , " Oh , if you have ever a Singing Leaf , I pray you give it me ! " But the trees all kept their counsel , And never a word said they , Only there sighed from the pine - tops A music of seas far away . Only the ...
Pagina 161
... asking for my usual good - bye kiss ; When on her lip I saw a proudish curve , And in her eye a shadow of reserve ; So with a short " Good - bye " I shut the door , And left her as I never had before . All day the memory of last night's ...
... asking for my usual good - bye kiss ; When on her lip I saw a proudish curve , And in her eye a shadow of reserve ; So with a short " Good - bye " I shut the door , And left her as I never had before . All day the memory of last night's ...
Pagina 224
... the absolution asked of him ; But while for all the rest he pardon gave , He told her this offence was very grave , And that to do fit penance she must go Out 224 Robert of Lincoln W C Bryant Ropewalk, Scandal Longfellow Anon.
... the absolution asked of him ; But while for all the rest he pardon gave , He told her this offence was very grave , And that to do fit penance she must go Out 224 Robert of Lincoln W C Bryant Ropewalk, Scandal Longfellow Anon.
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Populaire passages
Pagina 9 - Cowards die many times before their deaths ; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.
Pagina 14 - But yesterday the word of Caesar might Have stood against the world: now lies he there, And none so poor to do him reverence.
Pagina 39 - Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue : but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines.
Pagina 19 - Julius bleed for justice' sake ? What villain touched his body, that did stab, And not for justice ? What, shall one of us, That struck the foremost man of all this world, But for supporting robbers, shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes, And sell the mighty space of our large honours For so much trash as may be grasped thus ? I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, Than such a Roman.
Pagina 87 - And say — to-morrow is Saint Crispian : Then will he strip his sleeve, and show his scars, And say, these wounds I had on Crispin's day. Old men forget ; yet all shall be forgot, But he'll remember, with advantages, What feats he did that day : Then shall our names. Familiar in...
Pagina 35 - Cromwell, I did not think to shed a tear In all my miseries ; but thou hast forced me, Out of thy honest truth, to play the woman. Let's dry our eyes : And thus far hear me, Cromwell...
Pagina 40 - ... 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. Now this overdone or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve ; the censure of the which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theatre of others.
Pagina 1 - The quality of mercy is not strain'd, It droppeth, as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath : it is twice bless'd ; It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes : 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown; His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings ; But mercy is above this sceptred sway, It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself;...
Pagina 2 - Though justice be thy plea, consider this, That, in the course of justice, none of us Should see salvation: we do pray for mercy; And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy.
Pagina viii - Their dearest action in the tented field ; And little of this great world can I speak, More than pertains to feats of broil and battle ; And therefore little shall I grace my cause, In speaking for myself : Yet, by your gracious patience...