King's College Lectures on Elocution: Or, The Physiology and Culture of Voice and Speech, and the Expression of the Emotions by Language, Countenance, and Gesture. To which is Added a Special Lecture on the Causes and Cure of Impediments of Speech ...Trübner, 1881 - 487 páginas |
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... Breath in Public Reading and Speaking - Dr . Morell Mackenzie - Dr . Shuldham -- Mr . Lennox Browne- Mr. Lunn , & c . . • PAGE · 60 LECTURE VI . Testimony of the late Rev. A. S. Thelwall - Quotation from the Rev. J. Howlett's Work on 66 ...
... Breath in Public Reading and Speaking - Dr . Morell Mackenzie - Dr . Shuldham -- Mr . Lennox Browne- Mr. Lunn , & c . . • PAGE · 60 LECTURE VI . Testimony of the late Rev. A. S. Thelwall - Quotation from the Rev. J. Howlett's Work on 66 ...
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... Attitude , Management of the Breath , & c . , as applicable specially to Reading Aloud- Common mistakes pointed out that should be avoided - Various kinds of 330 PAGE Reading How Poetry should be read - Ordinary faults xiv CONTENTS .
... Attitude , Management of the Breath , & c . , as applicable specially to Reading Aloud- Common mistakes pointed out that should be avoided - Various kinds of 330 PAGE Reading How Poetry should be read - Ordinary faults xiv CONTENTS .
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... breath , you cannot afford to waste any . The labour is so great to vocal organs ( especially , I may add , when not accustomed to the work ) , that you cannot afford to tire them needlessly . The voice required is so loud , you cannot ...
... breath , you cannot afford to waste any . The labour is so great to vocal organs ( especially , I may add , when not accustomed to the work ) , that you cannot afford to tire them needlessly . The voice required is so loud , you cannot ...
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... breathe in are divided only by a membrane so marvellously fine and delicate , that while it is sufficiently thick to retain the blood , it yet allows the oxygen of the air and the impure gases of the blood freely , as it were , to ...
... breathe in are divided only by a membrane so marvellously fine and delicate , that while it is sufficiently thick to retain the blood , it yet allows the oxygen of the air and the impure gases of the blood freely , as it were , to ...
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... breath of life " has been taken at the time of birth . Now , as the proper regulation of the act of respiration is one of the most important things to be attended to by the public speaker or reader as * Medico . Chi . Transactions , vol ...
... breath of life " has been taken at the time of birth . Now , as the proper regulation of the act of respiration is one of the most important things to be attended to by the public speaker or reader as * Medico . Chi . Transactions , vol ...
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accent acquired action actor articulation attention audience beauty breath called cartilage chest Church circumflex clause clergyman consonants convey cricoid cartilage cultivated David Garrick delivered delivery Demosthenes diaphragm discourse effect Elocution emotions emphasis endeavour English epiglottis exercise expression eyes falsetto feel gesture give glottis hear heard hearers honour human human voice Illustrations for Practice important inflection inspiration King's College language laryngoscope larynx Lecture Lennox Browne letter lips lungs manner means mind modulation mouth muscles musical scale nature nostrils observe orator organs passage passions pause persons physiologist pitch preacher preaching principles produced pronounced pronunciation proper public reading public speaking pulpit reader reading aloud reading and speaking regard remarks respiration ribs rule sentence sermon singing sound speaker speech stammering syllable thee thou thought throat tion tone tongue trachea utterance various vibrations vocal cords voice vowels words
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Página 258 - 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 203 - The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat, but in submission and slavery. Our chains are forged.
Página 183 - All this? ay, more: Fret, till your proud heart break ; Go, show your slaves how choleric you are, And make your bondmen tremble.
Página 182 - There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats ; For I am armed so strong in honesty That they pass by me as the idle wind, Which I respect not.
Página 201 - 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 honours For so much trash as may be grasped thus ? — I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, Than such a Roman.
Página 123 - To hear the lark begin his flight And singing startle the dull night From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise; Then to come, in spite of sorrow, And at my window bid good-morrow Through the sweetbriar, or the vine, Or the twisted eglantine: While the cock with lively din Scatters the rear of darkness thin, And to the stack, or the barn-door, Stoutly struts his dames before: Oft listening how the hounds and horn Cheerly rouse the slumbering morn, From the side of some hoar...
Página 165 - I have of late , (but wherefore I know not) lost all my mirth, foregone all custom of exercises; and, indeed, it goes so heavily with my disposition, that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy , the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appeareth nothing to me, but a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
Página 258 - O, there be players that I have seen play, and heard others praise, and that highly, not to speak it profanely, that, neither having the accent of Christians nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Página 175 - Seems, madam ! nay, it is ; I know not 'seems.' 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black...
Página 213 - I sprang to the stirrup, and Joris, and he ; I galloped, Dirck galloped, we galloped all three ; " Good speed ! " cried the watch, as the gate-bolts undrew;