The Art of Elocution: From the Simple Articulation of the Elemental Sounds of Language, Up to the Highest Tone of Expression in Speech, Attainable by the Human VoiceSampson, Low, 1846 - 383 páginas |
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... speaking , we would warmly recommend this work . " - Crystal Fount . " The directions in Mr. Vandenhoff's book are so simple , so easy of comprehension , and may be so readily practised , that there should be no mercy shown hereafter to ...
... speaking , we would warmly recommend this work . " - Crystal Fount . " The directions in Mr. Vandenhoff's book are so simple , so easy of comprehension , and may be so readily practised , that there should be no mercy shown hereafter to ...
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... speaking ; some of much merit . We have examined a work by G. Vandenhoff , teacher of Elocution in the city of New - York , entitled ' A Plain System of Elocution , ' with which we are much pleased . It explains the principles of the ...
... speaking ; some of much merit . We have examined a work by G. Vandenhoff , teacher of Elocution in the city of New - York , entitled ' A Plain System of Elocution , ' with which we are much pleased . It explains the principles of the ...
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... speaking , or delivering language ; and it embraces every principle and constituent of utterance , from the arti ... speak with propriety and force ; as much so as regards the utterance of our language as its grammatical accuracy ...
... speaking , or delivering language ; and it embraces every principle and constituent of utterance , from the arti ... speak with propriety and force ; as much so as regards the utterance of our language as its grammatical accuracy ...
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... speak in a natural manner ; and he says ( § 3 , p . 356 , * ) " that in reading the Bible , for example , or ... speak naturally , as if you understood and felt what you are reading and speaking ; nature and habit will show you how ...
... speak in a natural manner ; and he says ( § 3 , p . 356 , * ) " that in reading the Bible , for example , or ... speak naturally , as if you understood and felt what you are reading and speaking ; nature and habit will show you how ...
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... speak it ) clearly is not versed in the distinction between inflection and emphasis , or in the difference between one species of emphasis and another . I reply to him , that a pupil who had had three lessons only in Elocution , on a ...
... speak it ) clearly is not versed in the distinction between inflection and emphasis , or in the difference between one species of emphasis and another . I reply to him , that a pupil who had had three lessons only in Elocution , on a ...
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The Art of Elocution: From the Simple Articulation of the Elemental Sounds ... George Vandenhoff Visualização integral - 1846 |
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Palavras e frases frequentes
accelerando accented ADRASTUS antithesis arms articulation beauty blood breath Brutus Cæsar Cassius character Christian close common compound inflections dark death delivery diphthongal distinct doth ducats earth elementary sounds emphasis of force emphasis of sense EXAMPLES exercise expression falling inflection feeling gesture give Godfrey of Bouillon grace hand Harfleur hath heard heart heaven Helon high pitch honor hope human voice Intonation king language legato light live Lochinvar Lord marked MEDON melody ment mercy middle pause middle pitch mind nature Netherby never noble o'er orator passage passion perfect practice presto pronominal phrase prose prosodial reading rhythm rising inflection Roche Rome rules sentence Shylock simple solemn soul speak speaker speech spirit style swelling syllables system of Elocution thee thought tion tone tonic sound utterance Vandenhoff's Venice verse voice vowel weep word
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Página 324 - I cannot tell what you and other men Think of this life, but, for my single self, I had as lief not be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself.
Página 300 - He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress...
Página 325 - Why should that name be sounded more than yours ? Write them together, yours is as fair a name; Sound them, it doth become the mouth as well; Weigh them, it is as heavy; conjure with 'em, "Brutus" will start a spirit as soon as "Caesar.
Página 291 - mong Graemes of the Netherby clan ; Forsters, Fenwicks, and Musgraves, they rode and they ran : There was racing and chasing on Cannobie Lee, But the lost bride of Netherby ne'er did they see. So daring in love, and so dauntless in war, Have ye e'er heard of gallant like young Lochinvar?
Página 339 - O, now you weep ; and, I perceive, you feel The dint of pity : these are gracious drops ; Kind souls ! What, weep you, when you but behold Our Caesar's vesture wounded ? Look you here. Here is himself, marr'd, as you see.
Página 326 - Signior Antonio, many a time and oft In the Rialto you have rated me About my monies, and my usances : Still have I borne it with a patient shrug ; For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe...
Página 175 - That which is now a horse, even with a thought The rack dislimns, and makes it indistinct, As water is in water.
Página 335 - O Cassius, you are yoked with a lamb That carries anger, as the flint bears fire; Who, much enforced, shows a hasty spark, And straight is cold again.
Página 353 - With a bare bodkin ? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of ? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all...
Página 352 - tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them ? To die : to sleep ; No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache, and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to ?—'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep...