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The book of oratory: compiled for the use of colleges, academies, and the higher classes of select and parish schools

CONTENTS PART I.— ELOCUTION. Principles and Definitions 11 Exercises in Breathing 14 Gesture 14 THE VOCAL ORGANS 18 Articulation 17 THE VOICE 21 QUALITY OF VOICE 22 The Pure Quality 22 The Orotund Quality 23 The Guttural Quality 24 The Aspirate Voice 25 The Tremor Quality 25 Variations of Voice 27 Examples in Pitch 28 Examples in Force 30 Examples in Time 33 EMPHASIS 35 Examples in Emphatic Utterance 36 INFLECTION, CIRCUMFLEX, AND MONOTONE 37 Inflection 37 Circumflex 39 The Monotone 40 PAUSES 41 PERSONATION 44 THE STUDY OF EXPRESSION 48 PART II.— RHETORICAL. 1. Apostrophe to Water - Judge Arrington 51 2. Our Titles - Miss A. A. Proctor 53 3. English Operatives in Manufacturing Districts - Southey 54 4. The Miserere at Rome - Headley 56 5. St. Peter's - Eustace 58 6. Song of the Stars - Bryant 62 7. The Sea - Wallace 63 8. Burning of Moscow - Alison 65 9. The Parting of Marmionand Douglas - Scott 69 10. The Summer of Kings 73 11. Extempore or Sight Reading 75 12. The Campagna of Rome - Ruskn 76 13. Monk Felix - Longfellow 76 14. Description of the Ruins at Balbec - Lamartine 80 15. The Convict Ship - T. K. Hervey 83 16. Mountains - William Howitt 84 17. Ireland and the Irish - C. Ed

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