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PRACTICE
BOOK
LELAND POWERS SCHOOL
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
ACROSS THE FIELDS TO ANNE, Richard Burton
BROOK, THE Alfred, Lord Tennyson
CAVALIER TUNES Robert Browning
I. Give a Rouse.
II. Boot and Saddle.
COLUMBUS Joaquin Miller
COMING OF ARTHUR, THE Alfred, Lord Tennyson
CONSERVATIVE, A Charlotte Perkins Gilman
EACH AND ALL Ralph Waldo Emerson
ELAINE Alfred, Lord Tennyson
ELOQUENCE Daniel Webster
EXERCISES FOR ELEMENTAL VOCAL EXPRESSION
EXERCISES FOR TRANSITION
FEZZIWIG BALL, THE Charles Dickens
FIVE LIVES Edward Rowland Sill
GREEN THINGS GROWING Dinah Mulock Craik
HERVÉ RIEL Robert Browning
IF WE HAD THE TIME Richard Burton
LADY OF SHALOTT, THE Alfred, Lord Tennyson
LAUGHING CHORUS, A
LIFE AND SONG Sidney Lanier
LOCHINVAR Sir Walter Scott
MONT BLANC BEFORE SUNRISE S.T. Coleridge
MY LAST DUCHESS Robert Browning
MY STAR Robert Browning
PIPPA PASSES, Extracts from Robert Browning
I. Day.
II. The Year's at Spring.
RHODORA, THE Ralph Waldo Emerson
RING AND THE BOOK, THE, Extract from Robert Browning
SCENE FROM DAVID COPPERFIELD, I. Charles Dickens
SCENE FROM DAVID COPPERFIELD, II. Charles Dickens
SCENE FROM KING HENRY IV "Falstaff's Recruits" William Shakespeare
SCENE FROM THE SHAUGHRAUN Boucicault
SELF RELIANCE Ralph Waldo Emerson
TALE, THE From The Two Poets of Croisic Robert Browning
TRUE USE OF WEALTH, THE John Ruskin
TRUTH AT LAST Edward Rowland Sill
WORK John Ruskin
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!"
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