An Elocutionary ManualBoD – Books on Demand, 2023 M10 21 - 436 pages Reprint of the original, first published in 1875. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost. |
Contents
ON THE STUDY OF LITERATURE AND ON VOCAL CULTURE | xiii |
What is Literature? Thomas De Quincey | 49 |
On the refining and elevating influence of Poetry | 57 |
Description of a Country Gentleman of the Seventeenth | 69 |
The Wreck of the Hesperus Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | 78 |
The Alpine Sheep Mrs Maria White Lowell | 86 |
The height of the Ridiculous Oliver Wendell Holmes | 100 |
The Blind Preacher William Wirt | 107 |
Don Quixote Henry Giles | 215 |
Godiva Alfred Tennyson | 223 |
The Palimpsest Thomas De Quincey | 232 |
Ode to a Nightingale John Keats | 240 |
He giveth his beloved Sleep Elizabeth Barrett Browning | 247 |
The Dream of Eugene Aram Thomas Hood | 253 |
The Portraits of Shakspeare and Goethe David Masson | 262 |
The Humble Bee Ralph Waldo Emerson | 268 |
Ask me no more | 185 |
Parable of the Prodigal Son Gospel of St Luke | 192 |
The Lord of Burleigh Alfred Tennyson | 200 |
The Skeleton in Armour Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | 208 |
A Dead Rose Elizabeth Barrett Browning | 278 |
in April 1786 Robert Burns | 321 |
hood William Wordsworth | 335 |
Passages from Shakspeare 394432 | 394 |
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Common terms and phrases
Achil Ajax ALFRED TENNYSON arms beauty bells Brabantio breath Chaucer's Christabel church clouds dark dead death deep door doth dream earth emotional English Excalibur eyes face fair father feeling flowers give glory Goethe grace hand hast hath head hear heard heart Heaven HIRAM CORSON human imagination King Arthur Lady lake language leave light literature living look lord marble mighty mind moon mountains nature never Nevermore night noble o'er OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Othello palimpsest poem poet poetic poetry Praxiteles round SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE seemed Shakspeare sing Sir Bedivere smiling soft song soul sound speak spirit stars strange sweet sword tears tell thee things THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY THOMAS DE QUINCEY thou thought thousand tion truth unto vellum Vere verse voice wild WILLIAM WORDSWORTH wind woman word