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    Practice Book, Leland Powers School

    By Leland Todd Powers

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    Release dateNov 25, 2013
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      Practice Book, Leland Powers School - Leland Todd Powers

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Practice Book, by Leland Powers

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

      almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or

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      with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net

      Title: Practice Book

      Author: Leland Powers

      Release Date: December 18, 2003 [EBook #10491]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PRACTICE BOOK ***

      Produced by Afra Ullah, Leonard D Johnson and PG Distributed Proofreaders

      PRACTICE BOOK

      LELAND POWERS SCHOOL

      Copyright, 1909

      IN ACKNOWLEDGMENT.

      My gratitude to publishers who have generously permitted the reprinting of copyrighted selections, I would here publicly express. To Little, Brown & Company I am indebted for the use of the extract called Eloquence, which is taken from a discourse by Daniel Webster; to Small, Maynard & Company for the poem A Conservative, taken from a volume by Mrs. Gilman, entitled In This Our World; to the Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Company for the poems by Mr. Burton; and to Longmans, Green & Company for the extracts from the works of John Ruskin. The selections from Sill and Emerson are used by permission of, and by special arrangement with, Houghton, Mifflin & Company, publishers of their works.

      The quotations under the headings Exercises for Elemental Vocal Expression and Exercises for Transition, with a few exceptions, are taken from The Sixth Reader, by the late Lewis B. Monroe, and are here reprinted through the courtesy of the American Book Company.

      LELAND POWERS.

      INDEX

      EXERCISES FOR ELEMENTAL VOCAL EXPRESSION.

      The exercises under each chapter have primarily the characteristics of that chapter, and secondarily the characteristics of the other two chapters.

      CHAPTER I.

      VITALITY.

      MIND ACTIVITIES DOMINATED BY A CONSCIOUSNESS OF Power, Largeness, Freedom, Animation, Movement.

      1. "Ho! strike the flag-Staff deep, Sir Knight--ho! scatter flowers, fair

      maids:

      Ho! gunners, fire a loud salute--ho! gallants, draw your blades."

      2. "Awake, Sir King, the gates unspar!

      Rise up and ride both fast and far!

      The sea flows over bolt and bar."

      3. I would call upon all the true sons of New England to co-operate with the laws of man and the justice of heaven.

      4. "Robert of Sicily, brother of Pope Urbane,

      And Volmond, emperor of Allemaine,

      Apparelled in magnificent attire,

      With retinue of many a knight and squire,

      On St. John's eve at vespers proudly sat,

      And heard the priest chant the Magnificat."

      5. "Then the master,

      With a gesture of command,

      Waved his hand;

      And at the word,

      Loud and sudden there was heard

      All around them and below

      The sound of hammers, blow on blow,

      Knocking away the shores and spurs.

      And see! she stirs!

      She starts,--she moves,--she seems to feel

      The thrill of life along her keel,

      And, spurning with her foot the ground,

      With one exulting, joyous bound,

      She leaps into the ocean's arms!"

      6. "Under his spurning feet, the road

      Like an arrowy Alpine river flowed,

      And the landscape sped away behind,

      Like an ocean flying before the wind."

      7. "The wind, one morning sprang up from sleep,

      Saying, 'Now for a frolic! now for a leap!

      Now for a madcap galloping chase!

      I'll make a commotion in every place!'"

      8. "O hark! O hear! how thin and clear,

      And thinner, clearer, farther going!

      O sweet and far, from cliff and scar,

      The horns of Elfland faintly blowing!"

      9. "It is done!

      Clang of bell and roar of gun!

      Send the tidings up and down.

      How the belfries rock and reel!

      How the great guns, peal on peal,

      Fling the joy from town to town!"

      10. "O sacred forms, how proud you look!

      How high you lift your heads into the sky!

      How huge you are, how mighty and how free!

      Ye are the things that tower, that shine; whose smile

      Makes glad--whose frown is terrible; whose forms,

      Robed or unrobed, do all the impress wear

      Of awe divine."

      CHAPTER II.

      MENTALITY.

      MIND ACTIVITIES DOMINATED BY A CONSCIOUSNESS OF Reflection OR Processes OF Thought, Clearness, Definiteness.

      1. Beyond the street a tower,—beyond the tower a moon,—beyond the moon a star,—beyond the Star, what?

      2. "Once more: speak clearly, if you speak at all;

      Carve every word before you let it fall;

      Don't, like a lecturer or dramatic star,

      Try overhard to roll the British R;

      Do put your accents in the proper spot;

      Don't--let me beg you--don't say 'How?' for 'What?'

      And when you stick on conversation's burrs,

      Don't strew the pathway with those dreadful urs."

      3. "To be, or not to be; that is the question:--

      Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer

      The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune;

      Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,

      And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep,--

      No more:"

      4. "I should say sincerity, a deep, great, genuine sincerity, is the first

      characteristic of all men in any way heroic. Not the sincerity that calls

      itself sincere; that is ... oftenest self-conceit mainly. The great man's

      sincerity is of the kind he cannot speak of, is not conscious of."

      5. "Brutus. Get me a taper in my study, Lucius.

      Lucius. I will, my lord. (Exit.)

      Brutus. It must be by his death: and for my part,

      I know no 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. Crown him?--That:--

      And then, I grant, we put a sting in him,

      That

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