A System of Elocution: With Special Reference to Gesture, to the Treatment of Stammering, and Defective Articulation ...E.H. Butler & Company, 1853 - 364 էջ |
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... grace and expression ; their elocution defied criticism . Let us endeavour to restore Elocution to its former place in the department of useful instruction . Nothing is wanted but a correct medium , laudable ambition , and common ...
... grace and expression ; their elocution defied criticism . Let us endeavour to restore Elocution to its former place in the department of useful instruction . Nothing is wanted but a correct medium , laudable ambition , and common ...
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... Grace Synoptical Arrangement of the Notation Letters .. Application of the Notation Letters .... Questions to be answered by the Pupil 125 129 131 134 136 159 PRACTICAL ELOCUTION . PART I. EXERCISES IN ARTICULATION , PITCH , FORCE ...
... Grace Synoptical Arrangement of the Notation Letters .. Application of the Notation Letters .... Questions to be answered by the Pupil 125 129 131 134 136 159 PRACTICAL ELOCUTION . PART I. EXERCISES IN ARTICULATION , PITCH , FORCE ...
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... Grace makes Free . Cowper 279 Hyder Ali .... Industry necessary to the Attainment of Eloquence .... Ware 333 Knowledge ...... Lines supposed to have been written by Alexander Selkirk , dur- ing his solitary abode on the Island of Juan ...
... Grace makes Free . Cowper 279 Hyder Ali .... Industry necessary to the Attainment of Eloquence .... Ware 333 Knowledge ...... Lines supposed to have been written by Alexander Selkirk , dur- ing his solitary abode on the Island of Juan ...
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... grace of much simplicity and beauty , evidently drawn from nature . It expresses the most tender and affectionate emotions : we hear it in those little gusts of passion which mothers use in caressing their infants ; it is one of the ...
... grace of much simplicity and beauty , evidently drawn from nature . It expresses the most tender and affectionate emotions : we hear it in those little gusts of passion which mothers use in caressing their infants ; it is one of the ...
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... grace both tender and agreeable . The violinist , Paganini , the present wonder of the world , plays an entire cantabile * upon one string , sliding through all the inter- vals with a single finger- the effect of which is so plaintive ...
... grace both tender and agreeable . The violinist , Paganini , the present wonder of the world , plays an entire cantabile * upon one string , sliding through all the inter- vals with a single finger- the effect of which is so plaintive ...
Common terms and phrases
action advance ANDREW COMSTOCK articulation body br-R breast Brutus Bvhf Cæsar Caius Verres called Cato circumflex connexion death degree Diag diatonic scale diphthongs discriminating gestures earth elements emphasis melodies emphatic gesture English language Erin go bragh eternal ev'ry exercises expression extended eyes falling inflection falsetto feet fingers force formed grace Gymnastics head heart heaven honour horizontal forwards human voice Hyder Ali inflection language left foot manner Mark Antony marked motion muscles noted o'er opposite imperfection orator Philadelphia pitch position posture PRACTICAL ELOCUTION principal gesture pronounced public speaker pupil Quintilian rest right hand semitone sentiments shf st small letters song soul sound speak speech stammering STANZA stroke subvowel supine syllable thee thou thought tion triphthongs ture utterance variety vef sp vertical vocal Vocal Gymnastics vowel wave word
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Էջ 174 - The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despised love, the law's delay, The insolence of office and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin?
Էջ 209 - Never, never more, shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom. The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone...
Էջ 336 - Netherby gate, The bride had consented, the gallant came late : For a laggard in love, and a dastard in war, Was to wed the fair Ellen of brave Lochinvar. So boldly he...
Էջ 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.
Էջ 302 - Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind, The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of luxury and pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame.
Էջ 282 - By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet nor in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him.
Էջ 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.
Էջ 241 - TO him who in the love of nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware.
Էջ 336 - Eske river where ford there was none; But, ere he alighted at Netherby gate, The bride had consented, the gallant came late; For a laggard in love, and a dastard in war, Was to wed the fair Ellen of brave Lochinvar.
Էջ 227 - I call upon the honour of your lordships to reverence the dignity of your ancestors, and to maintain your own. I call upon the spirit and humanity of my country to vindicate the national character.