Evolution of Expression, Volume 2--Revised

About this eBook

Author

Emerson, Charles Wesley, 1837-1908

Title

Evolution of Expression, Volume 2—Revised A Compilation of Selections Illustrating the Four Stages of Development in Art As Applied to Oratory; Twenty-Eighth Edition

Credits

E-text prepared by Barbara Tozier, Bill Tozier, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team

Language

English

LoC Class

PN: Language and Literatures: Literature: General, Criticism, Collections

Subject

Recitations

Category

Text

eBook-No.

34498

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34498

Release Date

November 29, 2010

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Evolution of Expression
2. 2.CONTENTS
3. 3.THE ATTRACTIVE OR MELODRAMATIC PERIOD.
4. 4.CHAPTER I. — SLIDE.
5. 5.CHAPTER II. — VITAL SLIDE.
6. 6.CHAPTER III. — SLIDE IN VOLUME.
7. 7.CHAPTER IV. — FORMING PICTURES.
8. 8.CHAPTER I. — SLIDE. — TACT AND TALENT. — SHYLOCK TO ANTONIO. — THE CYNIC. — GOOD BY, PROUD WORLD. — THE DESTRUCTION OF SENNACHERIB. — UNWRITTEN MUSIC. — LAUS MORTIS. — TAXATION OF THE COLONIES. — MY HEART LEAPS UP. — AS YOU LIKE IT.
9. 9.CHAPTER II. — VITAL SLIDE. — THE RISING IN 1776. — THE TENT-SCENE BETWEEN BRUTUS AND CASSIUS. — THE FORGING OF THE ANCHOR. — SUPPOSED SPEECH OF JOHN ADAMS. — LIFE AND SONG. — GATHERING SONG OF DONALD THE BLACK. — NUTTING. — THE DODSON FAMILY. — AFTER THE MARCH RAIN.
10. 10.CHAPTER III. — SLIDE IN VOLUME. — FIRST BATTLES OF THE REVOLUTION. — THE ANTIQUITY OF FREEDOM. — NATIONAL BANKRUPTCY. — THE LANTERN BEARERS. — TARPEIA. — THE BELLS. — THE TEMPERANCE QUESTION. — SHERIDAN'S RIDE. — TO A PUPIL.
11. 11.CHAPTER IV. — FORMING PICTURES. — THE PICKWICKIANS ON ICE. — THE REALM OF FANCY. — THE BATTLE OF NASEBY. — THE GLORIES OF MORNING. — THE CHAMBERED NAUTILUS. — AUTUMN. — MIDSUMMER. — THE KITTEN AND FALLING LEAVES. — SUMMER STORM. — JAQUES' SEVEN AGES OF MAN.

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