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Lockhart, 162

Lockhart. 181

Lockhart, 207.

Mackay, 163

Shea, 63
Proctor, 108
Miller, 82

O. W. Holmes, 119
Lockhart, 234
Henry Ware, jr., 224
Anonymous, 264

J. Montgomery, 268

Scott, 265 Anonymous, 278 Bernard Barton, 69 Brainard, 80 Anonymous, 120 Byron, 167

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Moore, 369

. J. G. Whittier, 378 J. G. Whittier, 236 Anonymous, 392 A. B. Street, 393

Rogers, 395 Morris, 405 N. P. Willis, 402 Anonymous, 410 • Bryant, 415 Longfellow, 422 Anonymous, 432 George T. Rider, 436 Brooke, 434

Mrs. Hemans, 439
O. W. Holmes, 91
Longfellow, 135
Scott, 138

I. C. Pray, jr., 387
G. W. Doane, 189

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J. G. Saxe, 137 W. C. Bryant, 252 Wolcot, 225

H. B. Wake, 87 R. H. Barham, 139 0. W. Holmes, 219

Wolcot, 133 Southey, 204 Punch, 262

Hood, 118 Punch, 322 Anonymous, 169 J. G. Saxe, 276

Hood, 127 Punch, 328 Hood, 242

R. H. Barham, 339 Anonymous, 98 Stark, 175 .Anonymous, 180

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INTRODUCTORY REMARKS

ON

DECLAMATION.

THE PROMINENT PRINCIPLES OF GESTURE.

DECLAMATION, as an academic exercise designed to prepare the student for the practice of public speaking, includes, properly, a course of training in gesture, or the attitude and action of the body, as well as the cultivation and discipline of the voice. The necessity of educational training is as great, obviously, in the former of these departments of oratory as in the latter. In both cases, the actual business of public life calls on the individual to do what he has not been accustomed to, in the relations of private life, viz.—to exert his vocal organs and his whole bodily action on a much larger scale, and in a much more forcible style of expression, than occurs in the communications of the domestic or the social circle. It is this unwonted demand upon his energies that embarrasses, and impedes, and, perhaps, utterly baffles the novice in public speaking; and it is to do away such hindrances that academic exercises are prescribed, by which the young speaker may become accustomed to the new circumstances in which he is placed, when endeavoring so to mould his voice, and regulate his bodily attitude and action, as to attain full utterance and appropriate gesture, when addressing a numerous audience in a large apartment.

The inspiration of genius may enable a highly favored individual to break through all restraints, and intuitively do what reflection, and study, and careful practice prescribe. But it is only such individuals who can rationally claim the indulgence.

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