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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... PRINCIPAL OF THE VOCAL AND POLYGLOTT GYMNASIUM . Can Elocution be taught ? This question has heretofore been asked through ignorance . it shall hereafter be asked , only through folly . - Rush's Philosophy of the Human Voice . ་ འཀ ...
... PRINCIPAL OF THE VOCAL AND POLYGLOTT GYMNASIUM . Can Elocution be taught ? This question has heretofore been asked through ignorance . it shall hereafter be asked , only through folly . - Rush's Philosophy of the Human Voice . ་ འཀ ...
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... principal of which are the following : ADAGIO , ... very slow ; the slowest time . Largo , ..... ...... slow time . Larghetto , ... slow , but not so slow as largo . ANDANTE , .. ' medium time . Andantino , a little quicker than andante ...
... principal of which are the following : ADAGIO , ... very slow ; the slowest time . Largo , ..... ...... slow time . Larghetto , ... slow , but not so slow as largo . ANDANTE , .. ' medium time . Andantino , a little quicker than andante ...
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... principal cause of the general neglect with which the cultivation of this art has hitherto been treated . For this desideratum the world is indebted to the Rev. Gilbert Austin , of London . In 1806 , this distinguished elocutionist ...
... principal cause of the general neglect with which the cultivation of this art has hitherto been treated . For this desideratum the world is indebted to the Rev. Gilbert Austin , of London . In 1806 , this distinguished elocutionist ...
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... principal gestures . These are : 1. The HEAD . 2. The SHOULDERS . 3. The TRUNK . 4. The ARMS . 5. The HANDS and FINGERS . 6. The LowER LIMBS and KNEES . 7. The FEET . I shall begin , as it were , with the foundation of the building ...
... principal gestures . These are : 1. The HEAD . 2. The SHOULDERS . 3. The TRUNK . 4. The ARMS . 5. The HANDS and FINGERS . 6. The LowER LIMBS and KNEES . 7. The FEET . I shall begin , as it were , with the foundation of the building ...
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... principal weight of the body is sustained by the left foot ; the right rests lightly , but in its whole length ,, upon the floor . 15 This fact is shown in the plan by deeply shading the left foot , and lightly shading the right ...
... principal weight of the body is sustained by the left foot ; the right rests lightly , but in its whole length ,, upon the floor . 15 This fact is shown in the plan by deeply shading the left foot , and lightly shading the right ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
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.