Reading and elocution
Subtitle: theoretical and practical
By: by Anna T. Randall
Publisher: Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor, & Company
Published: 1871
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 430
Subjects: Elocution; Oratory; Readers
Notes: "Sketches of authors": p. 419-430.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Orthoepy: Tonics ; Subtonics ; Atonics; title: Quality of voice: Pure ; Orotund ; Pectoral ; Guttural ; Plaintive ; Aspirate ; Falsetto; title: Force: Degrees ; Variations or stress; title: Time: Movement ; Pause; title: Melody: Pitch ; Monotone ; Diatone ; Semitone ; Waves or circumflex; title: Gesture: Position of the hand ; Direction; title: Methods for self-culture; title: Methods for teaching reading: Primary ; Programme for a week's lessons ; Methods for variety ; Analysis; title: Selections; title: Sketches of authors.; title: Selections: The creeds of the bells / George W. Bungay; title: Ode on the passions / Collins; title: High tide / Jean Ingelow; title: Gems / from Ruskin; title: The vagabonds / J.T. Trowbridge; title: A sea voyage / Washington Irving; title: Bible / John IX; title: Death of Morris / Walter Scott; title: Courtship under difficulties; title: The front and side doors / O.W. Holmes; title: The relief of Lucknow / Robert Lowell; title: Boy Britton / Forceythe Willson; title: Bugle song / Alfred Tennyson; title: Roll call / Anon; title: Pyramus and Thisbe / John G. Saxe; title: Evening at the farm / J.T. Trowbridge; title: Putting up stoves; title: Tribute to water / Gough; title: Claribel's prayer / Lynde Palmer; title: The skeleton in armor / Longfellow; title: To Cecilia / Frederika Bremer; title: The face against the pane / T.B. Aldrich; title: Mother and poet / Mrs. Browning; title: The charge of the Light Brigade / Tennyson; title: May days / Waverly Magazine; title: Scrooge and Marley / Chas. Dickens; title: Passing away / John Pierpont; title: Sheridan's ride / T.B. Read; title: ^; title: The night scene in Macbeth / Shakspeare; title: Short extracts / Webster, Emerson and Holmes; title: The burning prairie / Alice Cary; title: The Pied Piper of Hamelin / Robert Browning; title: Psalm XC; title: Ivry / T.B. Macaulay; title: Gaffer Gray / Holcroft; title: And Robin Gray / Lady Anna Barnard; title: Christian Mariner's hymn / Mrs. Southey; title: Scenes from The lights and shadows of Scottish life / John Wilson; title: The battle / translated from Schiller by Bulwer; title: Over the river / Miss Priest; title: The wonderful "one-hoss shay" / O.W. Holmes; title: Warren's address / Rev. John Pierpont; title: A psalm of live / H.W. Longfellow; title: Tasso's coronation / Mrs. Hemans; title: Death of the old year / Alfred Tennyson; title: Song of the Greeks / Campbell; title: The bell of the Atlantic / Lydia H. Sigourney; title: Adams and Jefferson / Daniel Webster; title: Polish war song / James G. Percival; title: The boys / O.W. Holmes; title: An order for a picture / Alice Cary; title: Scene from the Merchant of Venice / Shakspeare; title: The national ensign / Anon; title: ^; title: The song of the camp; title: People will talk / Anon; title: Somebody's darling / war lyrics of the South; title: Zenobia's ambition / William Ware; title: Portia's speech on mercy / Shakspeare; title: The bells / Edgar A. Poe; title: Romeo and Juliet (balcony scene) / Shakspeare; title: Jack Horner / Mother Goose for grown people; title: Barbara Frietchie / Whittier; title: Which? / Anon; title: The power of habit / John B. Gough; title: From Ivanhoe / Walter Scott; title: Rip Van Winkle / Washington Irving; title: Are the children at home / Atlantic Monthly; title: Scene from "School for scandal" / Sheridan; title: Liberty and independence / Anon; title: Mary Maloney's philosophy / Philadelphia Bulletin; title: The ballad of Babie Bell / Thomas Bailey Aldrich; title: The Irish woman's letter / Anon; title: From Atlanta in Calydon / Algernon Chas. Swinburn; title: Darius Green and his flying machine / J.T. Trowbridge; title: No sect in heaven / Mrs. Cleveland; title: Poetry / Percival; title: Wool gathering and mouse hunting / Gail Hamilton; title: A legend of Bregenz / Adelaide Procter; title: ^; title: The grandmother's apology / Tennyson; title: What is glory, what is fame? / Motherwell; title: The progress of poetry / Gray; title: From The toilers of the sea / Victor Hugo; title: The singer / Florence Percy; title: Dannecker / Mrs. Jameson; title: The vision of Sir Launfal / J.R. Lowell; title: Pan / Mrs. Browning; title: Footsteps on the other side; title: Little Nell / Dickens; title: The auction extraordinary / Davidson; title: The Coquette / Saxe; title: The new year / Eager; title: Marion Moore / James G. Clark; title: The well of St. Keyne / Robert Southey, 1793; title: Thank God! There's still a vanguard / Mrs. H.E.G. Arey; title: Through death to life / Harry Harbaugh; title: Minnie an' me; title: My darling's shoes; title: Unwritten music / Willis; title: The wreck of the Hesperus / Longfellow; title: God / Derzhavin; title: Aunt Kindly / Theodore Parker; title: The great bell Roland / Theodore Tilton; title: The young gray head / Caroline Anne Southy; title: The Suliote mother / Hemans; title: Sandalphon / Longfellow; title: The soldier's reprieve; title: The cynic / H.W. Beecher; title: The drummer's bride; title: ^; title: The isle of long ago / B.F. Taylor; title: Excelsior / Longfellow; title: Poor little Jim; title: The dawn of redemption / Jas. G. Clark; title: The bell / B.F. Taylor; title: Declaration of Independence; title: The burial of Moses; title: The dying Christian to his soul / Alex. Pope; title: From the honeymoon / John Tobin; title: When, how, and why /Grace Brown; title: The Inchape rock / Robert Southey; title: Horatius / Macaulay; title: The song of the shirt / Hood; title: Athena, the queen of the air / Ruskin; title: The veto power / Henry Clay; title: Marco Bozzaris / Halleck; title: The teetotal mill; title: "Little Bennie"; title: Lady Clare / Tennyson; title: The child on the judgment seat / by the author of the "Cotta Family"; title: Wanted, a minister's wife / X.Y.Z.; title: Maist onie day / Timothy Swan; title: The true teacher / Rolland; title: New Year's Eve; title: Gabriel Grub / Dickens; title: Dora / Tennyson; title: Revelations of Wall Street; title: Richard B. Kimball; title: The romance and reality of the law / L.J. Bigelow; title: Grannie's trust; title: The telegram / Sarah E. Henshaw; title: ^; title: The swan's nest / Mrs. Browning; title: The main truck, or a leap for life / G.P. Morris; title: From Rose Clark / Fanny Fern; title: From the American note book / Hawthorne; title: Invocation to light / Mrs. S.H. De Kroyft; title: Richelieu / Bulwer; title: A Scotch lady of the old school / Mary Ferrier; title: Break, break, break / Tennyson; title: What is life / John Clare; title: Remarks on reading / Gibbon; title: Scene from Virginius / James Sheridan Knowles; title: From the Dodge Club, or Italy in MDCCCLIX / James De Mille; title: Pictures of Swiss scenery and of the City of Venice / Disraeli; title: Joan of Arc / Thos. De Quincey; title: Death and sleep / Shelley; title: Death of Amelia Wentworth / Bryan W. Procter; title: The minstrel's song in Ella / Chatterton; title: Death of Long Tom Coffin / Cooper; title: The character of Falstaff / Hazlitt; title: The raven / Poe; title: Death of Gawtrey / Bulwer; title: Jeanie Morrison / Motherwell; title: Fading-dying / Ellen Schenck.