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... poem . ) I. This poem is a soliloquy , partly objective , partly subjective . Can it be successfully recited ? Or ought the interpreter to have the book before him ? 2. What pantomimic expression apart from that of the face and head is ...
... poem . ) I. This poem is a soliloquy , partly objective , partly subjective . Can it be successfully recited ? Or ought the interpreter to have the book before him ? 2. What pantomimic expression apart from that of the face and head is ...
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... poem , the words attrib- uted to the child are not put in quotation marks . There- fore they must be given purely as narration . Whenever we have the exact speech and the author puts it in quotation marks we have no choice . We must ...
... poem , the words attrib- uted to the child are not put in quotation marks . There- fore they must be given purely as narration . Whenever we have the exact speech and the author puts it in quotation marks we have no choice . We must ...
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... poets , philosophers , statesmen , orators , men whose words are the glory and the priceless heritage of the English race , and whose use of language we freely emulate , knew nothing of English grammar . Usage makes a rule rather than ...
... poets , philosophers , statesmen , orators , men whose words are the glory and the priceless heritage of the English race , and whose use of language we freely emulate , knew nothing of English grammar . Usage makes a rule rather than ...
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... poem . CHAIRMAN SILVERNAIL : We now have a few moment's for discussion . MRS . IRVING : Mr. Chairman , I just came in this moment . I want to express my appreciation of Miss Wheeler's reading . It was beautiful . I think we work too ...
... poem . CHAIRMAN SILVERNAIL : We now have a few moment's for discussion . MRS . IRVING : Mr. Chairman , I just came in this moment . I want to express my appreciation of Miss Wheeler's reading . It was beautiful . I think we work too ...
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... poem first . Oftentimes the teacher gets new ideas from the pupil , and if you let the teacher read it first the child goes away with the teacher's idea simply . ( Applause . ) CHAIRMAN SILVERNAIL : Mrs. McCoy is working up such ...
... poem first . Oftentimes the teacher gets new ideas from the pupil , and if you let the teacher read it first the child goes away with the teacher's idea simply . ( Applause . ) CHAIRMAN SILVERNAIL : Mrs. McCoy is working up such ...
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Página 34 - ... 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 228 - He found us when the age had bound Our souls in its benumbing round; He spoke, and loosed our heart in tears. He laid us as we lay at birth On the cool flowery lap of earth...
Página 194 - When public bodies are to be addressed on momentous occasions, when great interests are at stake, and strong passions excited, nothing is valuable in speech farther than as it is connected with high intellectual and moral endowments. Clearness, force, and earnestness are the qualities which produce conviction. True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labor and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in vain.
Página 194 - The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless spirit, speaking on the tongue, beaming from the eye, informing every feature, and urging the whole man onward, right onward to his object — this, this is eloquence; or rather it is something greater and higher than all eloquence, it is action, noble, sublime, godlike action.
Página 107 - Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me! You would play upon me; you would seem to know my stops; you would pluck out the heart of my mystery; you...
Página 212 - There are a sort of men, whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pond; And do a wilful stillness entertain, With purpose to be dress'd in an opinion Of wisdom, gravity, profound conceit; As who should say, ' I am Sir Oracle, And, when I ope my lips, let no dog bark!
Página 214 - I LOVE the old melodious lays Which softly melt the ages through, The songs of Spenser's golden days, Arcadian Sidney's silvery phrase, Sprinkling our noon of time with freshest morning dew. Yet, vainly in my quiet hours To breathe their marvellous notes I try ; I feel them, as the leaves and flowers In silence feel the dewy showers, And drink with glad still lips the blessing of the sky.
Página 72 - THERE are loyal hearts, there are spirits brave, There are souls that are pure and true ; Then give to the world the best you have, And the best will come back to you.
Página 142 - Despoiled of his magnificent attire, Bareheaded, breathless, and besprent with mire, With sense of wrong and outrage desperate, Strode on and thundered at the...
Página 82 - He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one ; Exceeding wise, fair spoken, and persuading : Lofty and sour to them that loved him not ; But, to those men that sought him, sweet as summer...