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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... whole 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 ...
... whole 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 ...
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... whole system suffers ; in fact , the very citadel of life is sapped , and nothing but a restoration of these organs to their natural condition , will effect a return of general health . Indeed , the lungs are of so much impor- tance in ...
... whole system suffers ; in fact , the very citadel of life is sapped , and nothing but a restoration of these organs to their natural condition , will effect a return of general health . Indeed , the lungs are of so much impor- tance in ...
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... whole surface of the body , & c . , & c . Electricity may be used with advantage as a tonic , and also as a means of interrupting the spasm of the vocal organs . The vocal treatment is deduced from the following circum stances : 1. An ...
... whole surface of the body , & c . , & c . Electricity may be used with advantage as a tonic , and also as a means of interrupting the spasm of the vocal organs . The vocal treatment is deduced from the following circum stances : 1. An ...
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... whole tones of the diatonic scale into semi- tones , by five additional sounds . The chromatic scale may be il lustrated by touching all the white and black keys of a piano - forte , in their consecutive order . ( The chromatic scale is ...
... whole tones of the diatonic scale into semi- tones , by five additional sounds . The chromatic scale may be il lustrated by touching all the white and black keys of a piano - forte , in their consecutive order . ( The chromatic scale is ...
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... whole number of keys in the musical system amount to sixty - three . Still , as there are but twelve notes , there can be but thirty - six scales ; and even this number may be resolved into three- one major , one minor , and one ...
... whole number of keys in the musical system amount to sixty - three . Still , as there are but twelve notes , there can be but thirty - six scales ; and even this number may be resolved into three- one major , one minor , and one ...
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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.