Long experience of the need which it is the design of the following pages to supply, must explain the reasons for the preparation of this volume. If that design be accomplished, the book will be its own best interpreter; if not, a lengthened preface would but make the failure more apparent. The whole theory of elocution, including an analysis of gesture, has been herein discussed, though all merely incidental opinions have been carefully avoided. Where just views have been found expressed by those who have made this a life-study, their language has frequently been quoted, in the hope that due importance may be ascribed to the ideas thus presented. Special acknowledgments are due to Dr. James Rush, to whose profound and accurate analysis of the “Philosophy of the Human Voice," all writers upon the subject have so long been indebted; and to Professor Wm. Russell, in whose able expositions of the theory of Dr. Rush may be found a more minute elucidation of the principles of this branch of education, so much neglected and misunderstood. Elocution being less a science than an art, much will ever remain to be effected by the living teacher, though experience has proved the great advantages to be derived from the general system of instruction here proposed.
The examples for practice have been classified with the view of separately illustrating each division of the work; in many instances, it may be best not to attempt
the reading of any long selection, until, by thorough study and diligent practice upon the shorter illustrations, each principle is clearly understood. The reading of a single poem might serve to develop the whole theory of elocution; the examples under each successive division may therefore be used, not only to secure a clear apprehension of the special point under consideration, but also to review the lessons previously explained and illustrated.
Great care has been taken to consult the authorized editions of the various writers here represented, that the extracts from their works may be relied upon as accurate; though, in some instances, preference has been given to an early edition, when, in later issues, the alterations have not been deemed improvements. Many poems have been introduced which have never before found their
way
into
any book of selections, some few being now for the first time published in this country.
The compiler cannot conceal the hope that this glimpse of our general literature may tempt to individual research among its treasures, so varied and inexhaustible ; – that this text-book for the school-room may become not only teacher, but friend, to those in whose hands it is placed, and while aiding, through sys. tematic development and training of the elocutionary powers of the pupil, to overcome many of the practical difficulties of instruction, may accomplish a higher work in the cultivation and refinement of character.
PHILADELPHIA, June 4, 1867.
EMPHASIS
ABSOLUTE AND ANTITHETIC EMPHASIS..
ILLUSTRATIONS.--Absolute Emphasis. Robertson, Ruskin, Mrs. Child,
Whittier, Kingsley, Carlyle...
ILLUSTRATIONS. - Antithetic Emphasis. Robertsm, Thomas à Kem-
pis, Shakespeare, Landor, Emerson, Carlyle, Miss Greenwell, Ware,
Miss P
cter, Giles........
REMARKS ON Distinct ENUNCIATION ....
MODULATION
Pitch, TONES, &c
SCALE, INTERVAL, &c.
NATURAL OR DIATONIC SCALE...
RADICAL, CONCRETE AND DISCRETE PITCH.
MELODY OF SPEECH..........
INTONATION
LONG QUANTITY
ILLUSTRATIONS. - Carlyle, Richter, Giles, Campbell, Percival, Holmes,
Miss Greenwell, Mrs. Browning
MELODY OF SPEECH, CONTINUED..
DIATONIC MELODY
ILLUSTRATIONS. — De Quincey, Mrs. Browning, Margaret Fuller Os-
soli, Shelley, Goldsmith, Tennyson..
SEMITONIC MELODY
ILLUSTRATIONS. Shakespeare, Tennyson, Randolph, Coleridge, Mrs.
Browning
MONOTONE........
ILLUSTRITIONS. — Keats, Coleridge, Shakespeare, Poe, Schiller, De Vere,
Mrs. Howell, Tennyson.
SELECTIONS. - DIATONIC MELODY......... .......
PAGB
PITCH, CONTINUED......
81
DEGREES OF PITCH
81
EXAMPLES. — Bryant, Mrs. Hemans, Byron, Cranch, Tennyson, Cole-
ridge, Wolfe, Shakespeare, Campbell, Byron.
81
ILLUSTRATIONS. - High Pitch. Shakespeare, Arnold, Spenser, Ten-
nyson....
84
ILLUSTRATIONS. - Medium Pitch. Mrs. Browning, Miss Procter, Rob-
ertson, Brooke, Tennyson..
86
ILLUSTRATIONS.- Low Pitch. Shakespeare, Shelley, Byron, Bryant,
Lowell, Miss Greenwell, Burns.........
88
MODULATION, CONTINUED.
92
QUALITIES OF TONE
92
PURE TONE ....
92
EXAMPLES. — Whipple, Richter, Mrs. Child, Martineau, Emerson........ 92
OROTUND QUALITY.
EFFUSIVE OROTUND.
EXAMPLES. - Schiller, Coventry Patmore, Pope, Whittier, Mrs. Brown-
ing, Mrs. Southey.
95
EXPULSIVE OROTUND.
EXAMPLES.— Webster, Patrick Henry, Sheridan Knowles, Mrs.Browning 97
EXPLOSIVE OROTUND.
EXAMPLES. — Byron, Shakespeare, Scott, Moore, Halleck ...................
ASPIRATION
101
EXAMPLES. Tennyson, Byron, Shakespeare.....
101
GUTTURAL QUALITY.
102
EXAMPLES. Shakespeare, Milton, Croly
103
FALSETTO.
EXAMPLES. - Shakespeare, Longfellow...........
104
TREMOR..
106
EXAMPLES.—Tennyson, Mrs. Browning, Keats, Milton, Mrs. Barbauld 106
CHARACTERISTICS OF TONES
108
ERRORS IN MODULATION.....
108
SELECTIONS.-- POETICAL ILLUSTRATIONS OF PURE TONE.
113
PROSE ILLUSTRATIONS OF EFFUSIVE OROTUND..
116
POETICAL ILLUSTRATIONS OF OROTUND QUALITY...
122
ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE DIFFERENT QUALITIES OF TONE.
133
INFLECTIONS.
175
RISING, FALLING, CIRCUMFLEX or WAVE...........
175
RISING OCTAVE...
176
EXAMPLES. - Sheridan, Bulwer, Taylor, Shakespeare...
176
RISING FIFTA...
177
EXAMPLES. - Scott, Patrick Henry, Tennyson, Owen Meredith. 177
RISING THIRD..
179
EXAMPLES. - Coleridge, Leigh Hunt, Spenser..
179
DOWNWARD OCTAVE...
181
EXAMPLES. — Knowles, Shakespeare, Croly
181
DOWNWARD FIFTH...
182
EXAMPLES. — - Shakespeare, Addison, Tennyson...
182
DOWNWARD THIRD
183
EXAMPLES. — Milton, Kingsley, Emerson, Doddridge, Browning, Ten-
nyson, Longfellow....
183
INTERVAL OF THE SECOND
186
EXAMPLES. - - Reed, Ruskin, Hawthorne, Emerson, Robertson, Mill.... 187
THE WAVE
188
EXAMPLES. — Franklin, Taylor, Knowles, Shelley, Milton.
189
SELECTIONS.—THE WAVE. -HUMOKOUS ILLUSTRATIONS....
191
INFLECTIONS, CONTINUED
206
RULES FOR INFLECTIONS
206
EXAMPLES. — Landor, Bacon, Shakespeare, Milton, Robertson, Curtis,
Rush, Southey...
206
ILLUSTRATIONS.- Affirmative Sentences. Robertson, Shakespeare,
Clay, Bailey, L’Aimè Martin, Emerson, Whipple, Von Humboldt 208
ILLUSTRATIONS. — Negative Sentences. Robertson, Emerson, Thomas
à Kempis, Whipple, Locke, Owen Meredith.....
209
ILLUSTRATIONS.— Interrogative Sentences beginning with a Pronoun
or Adverb. Bartol, Sir Wm. Jones, H. Bonar.
211
ILLUSTRATIONS. - Interrogative Sentences beginning with a Verb.
Whittier, Carlyle.
212
ILLUSTRATIONS. Suspension of Sense. Emerson, Reed, De Quincey 212
ILLUSTRATIONS, Parenthetical Phrases. Shakespeare, Tennyson,
Webster...
213
ILLUSTRATIONS.-Contrasted Sentences. Shakespeare, Tennyson,
Emersm, Kingsley, Longfellow.
213
ILLUSTRATIONS. - Concessions. De Quincey, Mrs. Browning .... 214
ILLUSTRATIONS. - Exclamatory Sentences. Dante, Browning, Miss
Greenwell, Campbell, Curlyle..
215
ILLUSTRATIONS. — Exclamations in the Form of Interrogative Sen-
tences beginning with a Pronoun or Adverb. Browning, De
Quincey
216
ILLUSTRATIONS. — Exclamations in the Form of Interrogative Sen-
tences beginning with a Verb. Miss Greenwell, Emerson. 216
ILLUSTRATIONS. -- Declarations in the Form of Negative Sentences.
Robertson, Giles, Emerson, Tennyson, Miss Muloch...
217
BERIES
218
SIMPLE AND COMPOUND SERIES, SERIES OF SERIES.......
218
COMMENCING AND CONCLUDING SERIES
219
EXAMPLES. - Shakespeare, Martineau, Tennyson
219
ILLUSTRATIONS.- - Commencing Series. Wirt, Hillard, Shakespeare,
Goldsmith .....
220
ILLUSTRATIONS.— Concluding Series. Shakespeare, Tennyson, Mont-
gomery, Ruskin....
220
ILLUSTRATIONS. - Series of Series. Hooker, Taylor, Whipple............ 221
CADENCE.........
PARTIAL AND DISTINCT CADENCE
222
EXAMPLES. — Scott, Shakespeare, Massey, Taylor...
223
ERRORS IN CADENCE
223
ILLUSTRATIONS. - Partial and Distinct Cadence. Ruskin, Kingsley,
Carlyle, Sterling, Whiitier, Fuber, H. Coleridge, Wordsworth,
Bailey, Miss Greenwell, Mrs. Browning, Milnes, Miss Procter,
Miss Waring, Browning, Owen Meredith.
225
FORCE.
230
EXERCISES — DEGREES OF FORCE.
231
ILLUSTRATIONS.— Loud Force. Shakespeare, Gray, Patrick Henry,
Croly...
233
ILLUSTRATIONS. - Moderate Force. Wordsworth, Tennyson, Thacke-
ray, Shakespeare, Stoddard, Robertson, Lowell.
234
ILLUSTRATIONS. — Soft Force. Shakespeare, Shelley, Byron, Southey,
Milton, F. Tennyson, Prentice, Mrs. Browning, Aytoun, Kings-
ley, Keats, Tennyson, Spenser ....
237
FORCE, CONTINUED.
242
VARIETIES OF STRESS ..........
242
RADICAL STRESS
242
EXAMPLES. - Shakespeare, Ruskin, Webster, Lord Brougham, Milton 243
MEDIA. STRESS
214
EXAMPLES. — Miss Greenwell, Mrs. Browning, Miss Ingelow...... 245
VANISHING STRESS
246
EXAMPLES. - Shakespeare, Webster, Otis.
247
COMPOUND STRESS..
247
EXAMPLES. — Shakespeare, Whittier, Knowles
248
THOROUGH STRESS
248
EXAMPLES. – Pitt, Shakespeare, Milton .........
248
SELECTIONS. — MEDIAY STRESS...
251
VARIETIES OF STRESS..
263
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