Order of Exercises in Elocution: Given at the Cook County Normal School

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Donohue & Henneberry, 1887 - 147 Seiten
 

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Seite 116 - Great rats, small rats, lean rats, brawny rats, Brown rats, black rats, gray rats, tawny rats, Grave old plodders, gay young friskers, Fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins, Cocking tails and pricking whiskers, Families by tens and dozens, Brothers, sisters, husbands, wives — Followed the Piper for their lives.
Seite 116 - Under his spurning feet, the road Like an arrowy Alpine river flowed, And the landscape sped away behind Like an ocean flying before the wind ; And the steed, like a bark fed with furnace ire, Swept on, with his wild eye full of fire.
Seite 127 - The wind one morning sprang up from sleep, Saying, "Now for a frolic! now for a leap! Now for a madcap galloping chase! I'll make a commotion in every place!" So it swept with a bustle right through a great town, Creaking the signs and scattering down Shutters; and whisking, with merciless squalls, Old women's bonnets and gingerbread stalls. There never was heard a much lustier shout, As the apples and oranges...
Seite 120 - Colors of such divinity to-day. Ha ! bind him on his back ! Look ! as Prometheus in my picture here — Quick — or he faints!
Seite 116 - One touch to her hand, and one word in her ear. When they reached the hall door, and the charger stood near; So light to the croupe the fair lady he swung, So light to the saddle before her he sprung! "She is won! we are gone, over bank, bush, and scaur: They'll have fleet steeds that follow,
Seite 48 - Place two fingers in the mouth so as to hold the teeth apart without interfering with the tongue; place the tip of the tongue against the back of the lower teeth...
Seite 119 - And the last seller from the place had gone, And not a sound was heard but of a dog Crunching beneath the stall a refuse bone. Or the dull echo from the pavement rung. As the faint captive changed his weary feet.
Seite 115 - PETER PIPER picked a peck of pickled peppers; A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked; If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, Where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?
Seite 115 - Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies; They fall successive, and successive rise: So generations in their course decay; So flourish these, when those are pass'd away.
Seite 116 - Now, clear, pure, hard, bright, and one by one, like to hail-stones, Short words fall from his lips fast as the first of a shower — Now in a twofold column, Spondee, Iamb, and Trochee, Unbroke, firm-set, advance, retreat, trampling along — Now with a sprightlier springiness bounding in triplicate syllables, Dance the elastic Dactylics in musical cadences. on, Now their voluminous coil intertangling like huge anacondas Roll overwhelmingly...

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