A System of Elocution: With Special Reference to Gesture, to the Treatment of Stammering, and Defective Articulation ...E.H. Butler & Company, 1853 - 364 páginas |
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... present the crown of the head , instead of the face , to the audience , to hide the blush of ignorance : they exposed the whole person to the audience ; they stood erect , in all the dignity of con- scious worth ; their attitudes were ...
... present the crown of the head , instead of the face , to the audience , to hide the blush of ignorance : they exposed the whole person to the audience ; they stood erect , in all the dignity of con- scious worth ; their attitudes were ...
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... present perfection in human productions , suggests , at least , the possibility that that amount of mind which is unnecessary to the successful application of the pre- sent principles , means , and inventions to their respective ...
... present perfection in human productions , suggests , at least , the possibility that that amount of mind which is unnecessary to the successful application of the pre- sent principles , means , and inventions to their respective ...
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... present chapter with the following Remarks on Stammering , from a Lecture on Elocution delivered before the American Lyceum , May 6 , 1837 , by Andrew Comstock , M.D. For the last ten years the author of these REMARKS has been engaged ...
... present chapter with the following Remarks on Stammering , from a Lecture on Elocution delivered before the American Lyceum , May 6 , 1837 , by Andrew Comstock , M.D. For the last ten years the author of these REMARKS has been engaged ...
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... present wonder of the world , plays an entire cantabile * upon one string , sliding through all the inter- vals with a single finger- the effect of which is so plaintive , and desolate , as to move his audience to tears . Vellati , the ...
... present wonder of the world , plays an entire cantabile * upon one string , sliding through all the inter- vals with a single finger- the effect of which is so plaintive , and desolate , as to move his audience to tears . Vellati , the ...
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... present every syllable in speech under its proper note , as is done in song : it is only necessary to give a notation of the relative pitch of the emphatic syllables . * The reader must not infer that I entertain the opinion that in ...
... present every syllable in speech under its proper note , as is done in song : it is only necessary to give a notation of the relative pitch of the emphatic syllables . * The reader must not infer that I entertain the opinion that in ...
Palavras e frases frequentes
action advance ANDREW COMSTOCK articulation body br-R breast Brutus Bvhf Cæsar Caius Verres called Cato circumflex connexion death degree Diag diatonic scale diphthongs discriminating gestures earth elements emphasis melodies emphatic gesture English language Erin go bragh eternal ev'ry exercises expression extended eyes falling inflection falsetto feet fingers force formed grace Gymnastics head heart heaven honour horizontal forwards human voice Hyder Ali inflection language left foot manner Mark Antony marked motion muscles noted o'er opposite imperfection orator Philadelphia pitch position posture PRACTICAL ELOCUTION principal gesture pronounced public speaker pupil Quintilian rest right hand semitone sentiments shf st small letters song soul sound speak speech stammering STANZA stroke subvowel supine syllable thee thou thought tion triphthongs ture utterance variety vef sp vertical vocal Vocal Gymnastics vowel wave word
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Página 174 - The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despised love, the law's delay, The insolence of office and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin?
Página 209 - Never, never more, shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom. The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone...
Página 336 - Netherby gate, The bride had consented, the gallant came late : For a laggard in love, and a dastard in war, Was to wed the fair Ellen of brave Lochinvar. So boldly he...
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 302 - Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind, The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of luxury and pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame.
Página 282 - By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet nor in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him.
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 241 - TO him who in the love of nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware.
Página 336 - Eske river where ford there was none; But, ere he alighted at Netherby gate, The bride had consented, the gallant came late; For a laggard in love, and a dastard in war, Was to wed the fair Ellen of brave Lochinvar.
Página 227 - I call upon the honour of your lordships to reverence the dignity of your ancestors, and to maintain your own. I call upon the spirit and humanity of my country to vindicate the national character.