School and College SpeakerWilmot Brookings Mitchell Henry Holt, 1901 - 358 páginas Includes more than 100 prose and verse selections, mainly from the 19th century, suitable for practice in public speaking. |
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... feel the need of is power to hold the breath , to be economical in its use , and not to allow more to escape than we can vocalize . But we should not , as we have seen , hold the breath back with the glottis or any part of the throat ...
... feel the need of is power to hold the breath , to be economical in its use , and not to allow more to escape than we can vocalize . But we should not , as we have seen , hold the breath back with the glottis or any part of the throat ...
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... feel the emotion genuinely . The primary sources good speaking tone are clearly conceived thought and gen emotion . 66 Grandma told me all about it , Told me so I could not doubt it , How she danced - my Grandma danced ! — Long ago ...
... feel the emotion genuinely . The primary sources good speaking tone are clearly conceived thought and gen emotion . 66 Grandma told me all about it , Told me so I could not doubt it , How she danced - my Grandma danced ! — Long ago ...
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... feeling , of thoughts and emotions that are courageous , patriotic , reverent , solemn , dignified , vast , lofty ... feel the emotion genuinely ; for it is only by so doing that you can secure a tone that is truly ex- pressive , that ...
... feeling , of thoughts and emotions that are courageous , patriotic , reverent , solemn , dignified , vast , lofty ... feel the emotion genuinely ; for it is only by so doing that you can secure a tone that is truly ex- pressive , that ...
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... than is vocalized . It varies all the way from a soft whisper in which no breath is vocalized to a tone closely resembling the Pure . In these various for it is of many kinds of " suppressed feeling " , - of tenderness , hush QUALITY xli.
... than is vocalized . It varies all the way from a soft whisper in which no breath is vocalized to a tone closely resembling the Pure . In these various for it is of many kinds of " suppressed feeling " , - of tenderness , hush QUALITY xli.
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Wilmot Brookings Mitchell. " suppressed feeling " , - of tenderness , hush , quiet , ex tion , weariness , secrecy ... feel you now— Stand back ! I'll paint the death - dew on his brow ! Gods ! if he do not die But for one moment - one ...
Wilmot Brookings Mitchell. " suppressed feeling " , - of tenderness , hush , quiet , ex tion , weariness , secrecy ... feel you now— Stand back ! I'll paint the death - dew on his brow ! Gods ! if he do not die But for one moment - one ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Abraham Lincoln American arms army battle Ben Hur blood Born Boston brave breath Charles Sumner citizens civil Commodus Cuba Daniel Webster dark dead death died duty earth Edward Rowland Sill England expression eyes face faith father feet fire flag forever France freedom GEORGE FRISBIE HOAR give glory hand head hear heard heart heaven HENRY CABOT LODGE hills honor House human JOHN DAVIS LONG land Lawyer liberty light lips lives look Lord Mass Massachusetts Member of Congress mother nation never night Oxford County patriotism peace Poet President published Puritan race Republic Senator shouted side slave soldier soul sound speak speech Spoils System stand stars stood tell things thou thought tion to-day turned Union victory voice WILLIAM PIERCE FRYE words York
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Página 181 - You've fallen cold and dead. My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still; My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will; The ship is...
Página lv - I come from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden sally And sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley. By thirty hills I hurry down, Or slip between the ridges, By twenty thorps, a little town, And half a hundred bridges.
Página liv - SWEET and low, sweet and low, Wind of the western sea, Low, low, breathe and blow, Wind of the western sea ! Over the rolling waters go, Come from the dying moon, and blow, Blow him again to me ; While my little one, while my pretty one, sleeps. Sleep and rest, sleep and rest, Father will come to thee soon ; Rest, rest, on mother's breast, Father will come to thee soon ; Father will come to his babe in the nest, Silver sails all out of the west Under the silver moon : Sleep, my little one, sleep,...
Página liii - Lord, thou hast been our dwelling-place in all generations. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.
Página lxxxi - 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.
Página 122 - Our greatest danger is that in the great leap from slavery to freedom we may overlook the fact that the masses of us are to live by the productions of our hands, and fail to keep in mind that we shall prosper in proportion as we learn to dignify and glorify common labour and put brains and skill into the common occupations of life...
Página 122 - A ship lost at sea for many days suddenly sighted a friendly vessel. From the mast of the unfortunate vessel was seen a signal: "Water, water; we die of thirst!" The answer from the friendly vessel at once came back: "Cast down your bucket where you are.
Página lv - Haste thee, nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful Jollity, Quips, and cranks,* and wanton* wiles, Nods, and becks, and wreathed smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides. Come,- and trip it as you go On the light fantastic toe...
Página lvi - I slip, I slide, I gloom, I glance, Among my skimming swallows ; I make the netted sunbeams dance Against my sandy shallows. I murmur under moon and stars In brambly wildernesses ; I linger by my shingly bars ; I loiter round my cresses. And out again I curve and flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But I go on forever.
Página lxxi - No more shall grief of mine the season wrong; I hear the Echoes through the mountains throng, The Winds come to me from the fields of sleep, And all the earth is gay; Land and sea Give themselves up to jollity...