Recitations
Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:
American speaker : a selection of popular, parliamentary and forensic eloquence : particularly calculated for the seminaries in the United States
Description: xii, 395 p. ; 19 cm.
Notes: Library’s copy missing title page.; Paul G. Chandler Textbook Collection.
Elegant lessons; or, The young lady’s preceptor: being a series of appropriate reading exercises, in prose and verse: carefully selected ... for female schools and academies: including some remarks upon the principles of correct reading; with a brief dissertation on poetry, as a reading exercise; and the different kinds and constructions of poetic feet. By Samuel Whiting ..
Publisher: New Haven, Printed for the author, by S. Converse, 1824.
Description: 288 p. 18 cm.
Notes: Paul G. Chandler Textbook Collection.; 2d ed., with additions and improvements.
English reader, or, Pieces in prose and poetry : selected from the best writers : designed to assist young persons to read with propriety and effect : to improve their language and sentiments : and to inculcate some of the most important principles of piety and virtue ; with a few preliminary observations on the principles of good reading / by Lindley Murray, author of "English grammar, adapted to the different classes of learners." &c.
Independent fourth reader : containing a practical treatise on elocution : illustrated with diagrams, select and classified readings and recitations, with copious notes, and a complete supplementary index / by J. Madison Watson.
Publisher: New York : American Book Company, c1880.
Description: 264 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Notes: Includes index.; Paul G. Chandler Textbook Collection.
Lessons in elocution, or, A selection of pieces in prose and verse : for the improvement of youth in reading or speaking / by William Scott ; to which are prefixed elements of gesture, illustrated by four plates, and rules for expressing with propriety the various passions & emotions of the mind, also, an appendix containing concise lessons on a new plan.
Publisher: Baltimore, Md. : Warner and Hanna, 1811.
Description: 377 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Notes: Paul G. Chandler Textbook Collection.; 4th Baltimore ed.
Other title: Selection of pieces in prose and verse.
McGuffey’s new sixth eclectic reader : exercises in rhetorical reading, with introductory rules and examples
Publisher: Cincinnati ; New York : Wilson, Hinkle & Co., c1866 1867 printing.
Description: 460 p. ; 19 cm.
Series statement: Eclectic educational series
Notes: Paul G. Chandler Textbook Collection.; Stereotype ed.
Other title: New sixth eclectic reader.
Reader: containing I. The art of delivery ... A selection of lessons in the various kinds of prose. II. Poetick numbers ... A selection of lessons in the various kinds of verse. Being the third part of a Columbian exercise ... By Abner Alden ...
Publisher: Boston: Printed by J. T. Buckingham, for Thomas & Andrews, No. 45, Newbury-Street. October, 1804.
Description: iv,[5]-228 p. 18 1/2 cm.
Notes: Paul G. Chandler Textbook Collection.; 2d ed., corr. and enl.
Rhetorical reader : consisting of instructions for regulating the voice, with a rhetorical notation, illustrating inflection, emphasis, and modulation, and a course of rhetorical exercises : designed for the use of academies and high-schools / by Ebenezer Porter.
Publisher: Andover : Gould and Newman ; New York : Leavitt, Lord and Co., 1832 (1838 printing)
Description: xii, [13]-304 p. ; 19 cm.
Notes: Paul G. Chandler Textbook Collection.; 35th ed., with an appendix.
United States speaker : a copious selection of exercises in elocution : consisting of prose, poetry, and dialogue ... : designed for the use of colleges and schools / by John E. Lovell.
Publisher: New Haven : S. Babcock, 1836.
Description: 504 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Notes: Paul G. Chandler Textbook Collection.; Stereotype ed., rev. and improved.