A System of Elocution: With Special Reference to Gesture, to the Treatment of Stammering, and Defective Articulation ...E.H. Butler & Company, 1855 - 381 Seiten |
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... person to the audience ; they stood erect , in all the dignity of con- scious worth ; their attitudes were fit models for the statuary ; their gestures were replete with grace and expression ; their elocution defied criticism . Let us ...
... person to the audience ; they stood erect , in all the dignity of con- scious worth ; their attitudes were fit models for the statuary ; their gestures were replete with grace and expression ; their elocution defied criticism . Let us ...
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... persons , an essential part of primary instruction . * AUSTIN'S CHIRONOMIA , p . 37 , 38 . + " When the elements are pronounced singly , they may re- ceive a concentration of the organic effort , which gives them a clearness of sound ...
... persons , an essential part of primary instruction . * AUSTIN'S CHIRONOMIA , p . 37 , 38 . + " When the elements are pronounced singly , they may re- ceive a concentration of the organic effort , which gives them a clearness of sound ...
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... persons the tones of the voice are more musical than in others — that is , the notes of the voice . The diatonic scale consists of seven sounds , moving discretely from grave to acute , or from acute to grave , by different degrees of ...
... persons the tones of the voice are more musical than in others — that is , the notes of the voice . The diatonic scale consists of seven sounds , moving discretely from grave to acute , or from acute to grave , by different degrees of ...
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... persons , is about two octaves above the lowest note of the voice . The natural voice embraces all the notes below this point ; the falsetto , all the notes above it . ( See Diag . 5. ) The Italians call the natural voice voce di petto ...
... persons , is about two octaves above the lowest note of the voice . The natural voice embraces all the notes below this point ; the falsetto , all the notes above it . ( See Diag . 5. ) The Italians call the natural voice voce di petto ...
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... persons under any violent emotion . It properly belongs to the sublime , although it may be so burlesqued as to as- sume a ridiculous character . Like all other forcible expressions , its meaning will depend upon the situation and ...
... persons under any violent emotion . It properly belongs to the sublime , although it may be so burlesqued as to as- sume a ridiculous character . Like all other forcible expressions , its meaning will depend upon the situation and ...
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action Andrew Comstock articulation beauty body breast Cæsar called Cato character circumflex cure of stammering death degree Diag diagrams diatonic scale diphthongs earth elements elevated Elocution emphatic gesture English language Engravings Erin go bragh eternal ev'ry exercise expression eyes falling inflection falsetto fingers foot force formed gilt give glory grace head heart heaven honor horizontal forwards human voice Hyder Ali illustrated inflection language light Lochinvar manner marked ment Metronome mind morocco motion mouth muscles muslin never notation o'er orator Philadelphia pitch position posture PRACTICAL ELOCUTION Price principal gesture pronounced pupil Quintilian rest right hand semitone sentiments shf st smile song soul sound speech striking subvowel supine syllable thee things thou thought tion tongue trembling triphthongs ture Turkey utterance Vocal Gymnastics vowel wave words
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Seite 242 - When thoughts Of the last bitter hour come like a blight Over thy spirit, and sad images Of the stern agony and shroud and pall And breathless darkness and the narrow house Make thee to shudder and grow sick at heart, Go forth under the open sky and list To Nature's teachings, while from all around — Earth and her waters and the depths of air — Comes a still voice...
Seite 260 - There is no longer any room for hope. If we wish to be free — if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending — if we mean not basely to abandon...
Seite 242 - Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world — with kings, The powerful of the earth — the wise, the good, Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre.
Seite 337 - So stately his form, and so lovely her face, That never a hall such a galliard did grace, While her mother did fret, and her father did fume, And the bridegroom stood dangling his bonnet and plume ; And the bride-maidens whispered, " 'Twere better by far To have matched our fair cousin with young Lochinvar.
Seite 335 - And there lay the rider distorted and pale, With the dew on his brow, and the rust on his mail; And the tents were all silent, the banners alone, The lances unlifted, the trumpet unblown.
Seite 204 - ON Linden, when the sun was low, All bloodless lay the untrodden snow, And dark as winter was the flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly. But Linden saw another sight, When the drum beat, at dead of night, Commanding fires of death to light The darkness of her scenery.
Seite 179 - I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute ; From the centre all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute.
Seite 303 - He gained from heaven ('twas all he wished) a friend. No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode, (There they alike in trembling hope repose) The bosom of his father and his God.
Seite 260 - We have held the subject up in every light of which it is capable ; but it has been all in vain. Shall we resort to entreaty and humble supplication?
Seite 303 - There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noon-tide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.