A System of Elocution: With Special Reference to Gesture, to the Treatment of Stammering, and Defective Articulation ...E.H. Butler & Company, 1855 - 381 páginas |
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... natural order , and with as much brevity as consists with perspicuity . The analysis of the vocal elements of the English language , and the minute de- scription which is given of their organic formation , will be found important , not ...
... natural order , and with as much brevity as consists with perspicuity . The analysis of the vocal elements of the English language , and the minute de- scription which is given of their organic formation , will be found important , not ...
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... 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 the animal economy , that the complete suspension 12 INTRODUCTION .
... 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 the animal economy , that the complete suspension 12 INTRODUCTION .
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... natural and uniform , and our language easy of acquisition . Until this is accomplished , words must be spelled one way , and pronounced another — indeed , two languages must be learned , instead of one . Should the English language ...
... natural and uniform , and our language easy of acquisition . Until this is accomplished , words must be spelled one way , and pronounced another — indeed , two languages must be learned , instead of one . Should the English language ...
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... natural pitch of the voice ; and those low , or grave , which are below it ) Strictly speaking , the application of high and low , to pitch , is without philosophic foundation : it has originated , not from any 1 principles in the ...
... natural pitch of the voice ; and those low , or grave , which are below it ) Strictly speaking , the application of high and low , to pitch , is without philosophic foundation : it has originated , not from any 1 principles in the ...
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... natural voice embraces all the notes below this point ; the falsetto , all the notes above it . ( See Diag . 5. ) The Italians call the natural voice voce di petto , and the falsetto voice voce di testa ; † because they suppose the ...
... natural voice embraces all the notes below this point ; the falsetto , all the notes above it . ( See Diag . 5. ) The Italians call the natural voice voce di petto , and the falsetto voice voce di testa ; † because they suppose the ...
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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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Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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?
Página 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.