25. Advice to an affected Speaker. La Bruyère......... 118 26. Apology for the Pig. Southey .......... ......... 120 121 27. A Vision described. Job, Chap. 4............. 43. A modern Battle poetically described. Campbell... 142 52. Beauty illumined by Soul. Thomas Moore ........ 157 53. Jephtha's Daughter to her Father. Lord Byron.... 159 +54. Greece as it impressed the Poet in 1810. Lord Byron 160 55. Influence of natural Objects in calling forth the / 56. Pleasures of Hope. Campbell... 60. The Last Minstrel. Sir Walter Scott ................. 169 62. Queen Elizabeth to her Forces in 1588. Eng. Hist. 176 63. Demosthenes to an Athenian Legislative Assembly 178 64. Lord Chatham to the British House of Peers......... 181 67. An Exhortation Concerning the Worship of God and Practice of Holiness. Lactantius................ 188 THE PRACTICE OF ELOCUTION. INTRODUCTION. THE requisites of a good delivery which, at first separately, and afterwards in union will, in the following Exercises, demand the efforts of the pupil, are 1. AN EXACT AND FIRM ARTICULATION. 2. A FULL UTTERANCE AND PROPER USE OF THE ACCENTS OR INFLECTIONS OF THE VOICE ESSENTIAL TO JUST MODULATION. 3. A VARIED AND SUITABLE EXPRESSION. The first of these constitutes a distinct delivery; the second makes it significant; and the third, by adding manner, earnestness, and feeling, renders it impressive. The art of Reading, by means of which Elocution or Delivery is improved, naturally divides itself, as is shown in "The Theory of Elocution," into the four following states: 1. MECHANICAL READING, OR PRONUNCIATION. 2. SIGNIFICANT READING, OR READING STRICTLY SO CALLED. 3. IMPASSIONED READING, OR SPEAKING. B |