Research and Technology Report: 1997

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 edition. Excerpt: ...Go off hurrwdly, with air of man who has just recollected an appointment. Should you do this with any dramatic force at all, you may reckon upon enlisting the sympathies of the audience for the severe disillusion you have suffered. THE WOOING OF THE LADY AMABEL. EXAMPLE No. 7. Style: TJte Sensuously Harrowing Most young male Eeciters cherish a secret persuasion that it has been peculiarly given to them to represent the varying phases of the feminine temperament in a manner equally truthful and pleasing. Mindful of this characteristic of theirs, the author has endeavoured in the present example to provide conscious talent with exceptional facilities for display. The young Reciter is hereby enabled to portray with all the marvellous fidelity at his command a highborn maiden in a situation of exquisite delicacy and embarrassment; he can work his hearers up to a pitch of tantalised impatience, otherwise known as the fidgets, by the art with which he prolongs and intensifies a mutual misunderstanding; and he can leave them with aching hearts, or in smiling relief--just as his tastes incline. And for all this the Compiler makes no extra charge; he is content to find his reward in the approving verdict of his own bosom, and the pupil is exhorted to cultivate a like philosophy, which he may not find altogether unnecessary. With this brief exordium, we will approach the study of our poem, which is entitled--THE WOOING OF THE LADY AMABEL. i. In her boudoir, faintly perfumed by some sweet and subtle vapour, 'With the lissome grace of indolence, lies Lady Amabel; And from time to time her taper fingers plunge within a paper, Whence they carry to her coral lips some happy caramel. ii. 'Tis a dainty well adapted to induce a...