The Secret of Successful Speaking and Reading: A Twelve-lesson Course in the Art of Public Speaking for Business and Professional Men and Amateurs |
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... standing at ease . Pupil Stand perfectly straight , shoulders squared , heels close together , with feet pointed slightly to the right and left . Arms resting at ease by the sides , palms of hands towards the body . Teacher - It is bad ...
... standing at ease . Pupil Stand perfectly straight , shoulders squared , heels close together , with feet pointed slightly to the right and left . Arms resting at ease by the sides , palms of hands towards the body . Teacher - It is bad ...
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... standing in the middle of the street , looking on , would see that you were in a natural position . Should you face the houses on either side of the street , then the positions would be reversed . Delsarte , one of the greatest and most ...
... standing in the middle of the street , looking on , would see that you were in a natural position . Should you face the houses on either side of the street , then the positions would be reversed . Delsarte , one of the greatest and most ...
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... standing ? 7. Do you know how to make correct gestures ? 8. Do you realize that every gesture must have a meaning ? 9. What is the object of these lessons ? 10. What is required of you to make a success of this work ? 11. Write from ...
... standing ? 7. Do you know how to make correct gestures ? 8. Do you realize that every gesture must have a meaning ? 9. What is the object of these lessons ? 10. What is required of you to make a success of this work ? 11. Write from ...
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... standing in the centre of the stage with your arms resting quietly at your sides , palms of the hands toward the body , in an easy natural manner , ready for use at any time , but never to be used unless there is a meaning , to every ...
... standing in the centre of the stage with your arms resting quietly at your sides , palms of the hands toward the body , in an easy natural manner , ready for use at any time , but never to be used unless there is a meaning , to every ...
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... standing right centre ( R. C. ) . Young woman left centre ( L. C. ) . Both standing in correct positions , erect , feet of young man , left foot forward , young woman with right foot forward . He looks at the young woman , slight pause ...
... standing right centre ( R. C. ) . Young woman left centre ( L. C. ) . Both standing in correct positions , erect , feet of young man , left foot forward , young woman with right foot forward . He looks at the young woman , slight pause ...
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action actor Anne Hathaway applying the methods army Art of Expression beholden Brutus Casey Casey's centre L. C. character correct position Demosthenes effect Eliab Elocution emphatical words face the audience facing left FAULTS OF ENUNCIATION foot in advance ghost give Goliath half turn Hamlet hands hear hearers ideas Israelites Julius Caesar king King Hamlet kneel left centre left foot left L lesson Look and Gesture Marc Antony mean memory methods of Voice mind natural orator palms upwards pause Philistine play practice proper Pupil No sir Pupil-A Pupil-By Pupil-It Pupil-One Pupil-The question Quintillian read and speak remedy right and left right centre right foot scene sentence Shakespeare Shochoh side speaking and reading speech spirit stage fright stage or platform stop story success Teacher-In Teacher-The Teacher-What Teacher-Would thee things thou thought tone understand valley of Elah walk WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Write
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Page 53 - With a bare bodkin ? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of ? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all...
Page 85 - Angels and ministers of grace defend us! Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damn'd, Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell, Be thy intents wicked or charitable, Thou com'st in such a questionable shape, That I will speak to thee: I'll call thee Hamlet, King, father, royal Dane, O, answer me!
Page 46 - Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee ; Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not: Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's, and truth's...
Page 17 - All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players : They have their exits and their entrances ; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
Page 78 - It must be by his death: and, for my part, I know no personal cause to spurn at him, But for the general. He would be crown'd: How that might change his nature, there's the question: It is the bright day that brings forth the adder; And that craves wary walking.
Page 18 - With spectacles on nose and pouch on side, His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide For his shrunk shank ; and his big manly voice, Turning again toward childish treble, pipes And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all, That ends this strange eventful history, Is second childishness and mere oblivion, Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
Page 95 - Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.
Page 53 - tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep; To sleep — perchance to dream — ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause. There's the respect That makes calamity of so long life ; For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despised love, the law's delay, The insolence of office and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy...
Page 81 - To the very moment that he bade me tell it : Wherein I spoke of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field ; Of hair-breadth 'scapes i' the imminent deadly breach...
Page 33 - So may the outward shows be least themselves ; The world is still deceived with ornament. In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But, being season'd with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil...