The philosophy of the human voice: embracing its physiological history [&c.].Grigg & Elliott, 1833 - 432 páginas |
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... discourse on the management of the voice , in Quinctilian's elaborate chapter on action , without allowing to the ancients a power of perceiving the beauties and blemishes of speech . Yet among so many indications of their practical ...
... discourse on the management of the voice , in Quinctilian's elaborate chapter on action , without allowing to the ancients a power of perceiving the beauties and blemishes of speech . Yet among so many indications of their practical ...
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... discourse . I shall hereafter make a division of this accident , with refer- ence to English syllables , and to their uses in utterance . I employ the term Abruptness to signify the sudden and full discharge of sound , as ...
... discourse . I shall hereafter make a division of this accident , with refer- ence to English syllables , and to their uses in utterance . I employ the term Abruptness to signify the sudden and full discharge of sound , as ...
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... discourse . ing fulness , direction , interval and diminution of the radical and vanishing movement . The whole of this notation being mere metaphor , there is no meaning in the curve given to the sign of the vanish . In that I have ...
... discourse . ing fulness , direction , interval and diminution of the radical and vanishing movement . The whole of this notation being mere metaphor , there is no meaning in the curve given to the sign of the vanish . In that I have ...
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... discourse . It will not be denied that intonation is one of the most important functions of speech : consequently the ordering of the elements should have some reference to it . In the present section therefore , these elements will be ...
... discourse . It will not be denied that intonation is one of the most important functions of speech : consequently the ordering of the elements should have some reference to it . In the present section therefore , these elements will be ...
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... discourse , that his natural voice will return . The cause of this will be un- derstood , by his recollecting the distinction between the two modes of expiration . For though he may have a facility in making the orotund with the ...
... discourse , that his natural voice will return . The cause of this will be un- derstood , by his recollecting the distinction between the two modes of expiration . For though he may have a facility in making the orotund with the ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
a-we accent applied arsis and thesis aspiration atonic cadence called chromatic melody concrete movement concrete rise consists constituent continued crete current melody degree descending diatonic melody diatonic scale dignity diphthongal discourse discrete distinction downward concrete downward vanish drift effect elocution emphasis emphatic employed English language equable concrete equal execution expression falsette faults fifth force fulness function give glottis heard higher intervals human voice immutable syllables impulse indefinite interrogative inverted long quantity means ment minor third mode of intonation musical nature notation octave orotund passion pause peculiar perception phatic phrases plaintive produced prolonged pronunciation purpose radical and vanishing radical pitch radical stress reader require rythmus scale semitone sentence sentiments short simple rise song sound speaker speaking speech subtonic succession tion tone tonic elements tremor tremulous utterance uvula vanishing movement vanishing stress varied vocal voice wave whilst words
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Página 365 - ... that sensibility of principle that chastity of...
Página 304 - Thy suppliant I beg, and clasp thy knees ; bereave me not, Whereon I live, thy gentle looks, thy aid, Thy counsel, in this uttermost distress, My only strength and stay ; forlorn of thee, Whither shall I betake me, where subsist ? While ^ret we live, scarce one short hour perhaps, Between us two let there be peace...
Página 146 - So spake the Seraph Abdiel, faithful found; Among the faithless faithful only he ; Among innumerable false unmoved, Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal ; 900 Nor number nor example with him wrought To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind, Though single.
Página 309 - On heaven's azure; and the torrid clime Smote on him sore besides, vaulted with fire. Nathless he so endured, till on the beach Of that inflamed sea he stood, and called His legions — angel forms, who lay entranced. Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks In Vallombrosa, where the Etrurian shades High overarched embower...
Página 58 - The little engine on his fingers' ends; This just behind Belinda's neck he spread, As o'er the fragrant steams she bends her head. Swift to the lock a thousand sprites repair...
Página 154 - First, Moloch, horrid King, besmeared with blood Of human sacrifice, and parents' tears; Though, for the noise of drums and timbrels loud, Their children's cries unheard that passed through fire To his grim idol.
Página 57 - Hampton takes its name, Here Britain's statesmen oft the fall foredoom Of foreign tyrants, and of nymphs at home ; Here thou, great ANNA ! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take— and sometimes tea. Hither the heroes and the nymphs resort, To taste awhile the pleasures of a court ; In various talk th...
Página 365 - When I took the first survey of my undertaking, I found our speech copious without order, and energetick without rules: wherever I turned my view, there was perplexity to be disentangled, and confusion to be regulated...
Página 245 - Pity the sorrows of a poor old man ! Whose trembling limbs have borne him to your door, Whose days are dwindled to the shortest span ; Oh ! give relief, and Heaven will bless your store.
Página 305 - Against God only ; I against God and thee, And to the place of judgment will return, There with my cries importune Heaven, that all The sentence, from thy head removed, may light On me, sole cause to thee of all this woe, Me, me only, just object of His ire.