A Practical Manual of Elocution: Embracing Voice and Gesture : Designed for Schools, Academies and Colleges, as Well as for Private LearnersSorin & Ball, 1845 - 331 páginas |
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... Concrete . This is employed particularly in accent . It may not be amiss to remind the inexperienced learner that all these forms of stress , not less than the combinations of elements employed in the Tables of this section , are among ...
... Concrete . This is employed particularly in accent . It may not be amiss to remind the inexperienced learner that all these forms of stress , not less than the combinations of elements employed in the Tables of this section , are among ...
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... concrete change of pitch ; and it is this which is heard in every effort of the human voice at speech as distinguished from song . In song , as produced by instruments , the sound is continuous on the same note ; and it is the same with ...
... concrete change of pitch ; and it is this which is heard in every effort of the human voice at speech as distinguished from song . In song , as produced by instruments , the sound is continuous on the same note ; and it is the same with ...
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... concrete interval . And these movements , according as they are upward or downward , are called upward or downward Slides of the voice . * The slides of the voice which occur mostly in speech , are those of the semitone , of a full tone ...
... concrete interval . And these movements , according as they are upward or downward , are called upward or downward Slides of the voice . * The slides of the voice which occur mostly in speech , are those of the semitone , of a full tone ...
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... concrete slide of a third or fifth on one or a few of the syl- lables , while the rest , and particularly those near the close , take the melody of common discourse , and constitute a regular cadence . We add the following practical ...
... concrete slide of a third or fifth on one or a few of the syl- lables , while the rest , and particularly those near the close , take the melody of common discourse , and constitute a regular cadence . We add the following practical ...
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... concrete , or the direct wave - soon to be explained . This downward movement furnishes the appropriate expression of positive conviction , as the rising does of doubt and un- certainty . 3. Even the Direct Question , if very long , and ...
... concrete , or the direct wave - soon to be explained . This downward movement furnishes the appropriate expression of positive conviction , as the rising does of doubt and un- certainty . 3. Even the Direct Question , if very long , and ...
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accent action articulation Aspiration body Brutus Cadence Cæsar called Cassius character Chironomia Cicero combined command concrete constitute current melody defect delivery Demosthenes Diatonic DICKINSON COLLEGE dignity direct discourse distinct downward Drift elementary sounds elements elocution eloquence emotion emphatic emphatic series employed English language equal wave examples execution exercise exhibit expression Falling Slide feeling fifth furnish gesture give grace hand head heard heaven History of France human voice illustrate interrogation interval Intonation king klst language learner long quantity long vowels Manual Median Stress ment movement musical scale never object occur octave orator oratory passions pause perfect phatic pitch position practice presented principles pronunciation pulpit Quintilian racter Radical Stress reading Rising Slide rnst rules semitone sentence sentiment speaker speaking speech syllables Table taste teacher thee thou tion tones tonic consonant utterance Vanishing Stress vocal vocule words
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Página 144 - And let those that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them : for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the mean time, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered: that's villainous; and . shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.
Página 130 - And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?
Página 131 - The gay will laugh When thou art gone, the solemn brood of care Plod on, and each one, as before, will chase His favorite phantom ; yet all these shall leave Their mirth and their employments, and shall come And make their bed with thee.
Página 130 - Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests: in all time, Calm or convulsed — in breeze, or gale, or storm. Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark-heaving; — boundless, endless, and sublime; The image of eternity, the throne Of the Invisible: even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Página 110 - Perhaps thou gavest me, though unfelt, a kiss ; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss ; Ah, that maternal smile, it answers yes ! I heard the bell tolled on thy burial day, I saw the hearse that bore thee slow away, And, turning from my nursery window, drew A long, long sigh, and wept a last adieu ! But was it such ? It was.
Página 147 - Julius bleed for justice' sake? What villain touch'd his body, that did stab, And not for justice? What, shall one of us, That struck the foremost man of all this world, But for supporting robbers ; shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes ? And sell the mighty space of our large honors, For so much trash, as may be grasped thus? — I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, Than such a Roman.
Página 171 - And weltering in his blood ; Deserted at his utmost need By those his former bounty fed ; On the bare earth exposed he lies With not a friend to close his eyes.
Página 129 - HAIL, holy Light, offspring of Heaven first-born! Or of the Eternal coeternal beam May I express thee unblamed? since God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity — dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate!
Página 150 - This fellow's of exceeding honesty, And knows all qualities, with a learned spirit, Of human dealings. If I do prove her haggard, Though that her jesses were my dear heart-strings, I 'ld whistle her off and let her down the wind, To prey at fortune.
Página 192 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.