The Canadian Elocutionist Designed for the Use of Colleges, Schools and Self Instruction, Together with a Copious Selection in Prose and Poetry of Pieces Adapted for Reading, Recitation and Practice

HUB. Heat me these irons hot; and look thou stand Within the arras; when I strike my foot Upon the bosom of the ground, rush forth, And bind the boy, which you will find with me...

Still sprung from those swift hoofs, thundering South, The dust like the smoke from the cannon's mouth, Or the trail of a comet, sweeping faster and faster, Foreboding to traito...

CORA. (_Sitting on bank by child,_ R.)--Oh, Nature! thou hast not the strength of love. My anxious spirit is untired in its march; my wearied shivering frame sinks under it. And...

Force refers to the strength or power of the voice, and is divided into forms and degrees. Very particular attention should be given to the subject of force, since that _express...

The Pure or Natural tone is employed in ordinary speaking or descriptive language, and is expressed with less expenditure of breath than any other quality of voice. It is entire...

"A pause is often more eloquent than words." The common pauses necessary to be made, according to the rules of punctuation, are too well known to require any particular notice h...

Pitch is the degree of elevation or depression of sound. On the proper pitching of the voice depends much of the ease of the speaker, and upon the modulation of the voice depend...

native town, and about 1604 he retired to Stratford, where he spent the last twelve years of life, and where he is supposed to have written many of his plays, but we have no mea...

A Child's First Impression of a Star... _N. P. Willis._ A Legend of Bregenz... _Adelaide A. Procter._ A Modest Wit A Prayer... _James Russell Lowett._ A Slip of the Tongue A Tar...

ALONZO. (c.)--For the last time, I have beheld the quivering lustre of the stars. For the last time, O, sun! (and soon the hour), I shall behold thy rising, and thy level beams...

MARY. Farewell high thought, and pride of noble mind! I will forget my dignity, and all My sufferings; I will fall before _her_ feet, Who hath reduced me to this wretchedness. [...

As more or less action must necessarily accompany the words of every speaker who delivers his sentiments in earnest, as they ought to be to move and persuade, it is of the utmos...

The varieties of movement in utterance are expressed by Time, which is the measure of the duration of the sounds heard in speech, and it is divided into three general divisions;...

Before proceeding to the vocal gymnastics, it is indispensable, almost, to practice a series of muscular exercises, adapted to the expansion of the chest, freedom of the circula...

LEAH--[_solus_]-What seek I here? I know not; yet I feel I have a mission to fulfil. I feel that the cords of my I being are stretched to their utmost effort. Already seven days...

Personation is the representation, by a single reader or speaker, of the words, manners, and actions of one or several persons. The change of voice in personation in public read...

The speaker should present himself to the audience with modesty, and without any show of self-consequence, and should avoid everything opposed to true dignity and self respect;...

There are many words in which there are difficult combinations of the elements; they, as well as those in which the combinations are easy, should be practiced upon until the pup...

LADY M. That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold: What hath quench'd them hath given me fire:-- Hark! Peace! It was the owl that shriek'd, The fatal bellman which gives...

RUD.--(_Leah comes down stage gently and sad, listening_). Think, Madalena, of her lot and mine. While I clasp a tender wife, and a lovely child; she wanders in foreign lands, s...

GENT. Since his majesty went into the field, I have seen her rise from her bed, throw her nightgown upon her, unlock her closet, take forth paper, fold it, write upon it, read i...

Having inflated the lungs to their utmost capacity, form the breath into the element of long _o_, in its escape through the vocal organs. This exercise should be frequently repe...

K. JOHN. Come hither, Hubert. O my gentle Hubert. We owe thee much; within this wall of flesh There is a soul counts thee her creditor, And with advantage means to pay thy love:...

A good articulation consists in a clear, full, and distinct utterance of words, in accordance with the best standard of pronunciation, and this constitutes the basis of every ot...

MACBETH. Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee-- I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sen...