Webster's Reciter, Or, Elocution Made Easy: Plainly Showing the Proper Attitudes of the Figure, the Various Expressions of the Face, and the Different Inflexions and Modulations of the Voice ... : Also Containing Choice Selections of the Most Thrilling, Passionate, Heroic, and Patriotic Speeches and Poems ...Henry Llewellyn Williams Robert M. De Witt, 1870 - 192 páginas |
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... sound of his voice . Thus it is with the graces of oratory ; they are intended to rivet the attention of the audience upon the speaker , and to set forth his views and his arguments in the most clear and forcible manner . The following ...
... sound of his voice . Thus it is with the graces of oratory ; they are intended to rivet the attention of the audience upon the speaker , and to set forth his views and his arguments in the most clear and forcible manner . The following ...
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... Sound capable of prolongation , uttered without excitement , and in a natural manner , commences full and somewhat abrupt , and gradually decreases in fullness , till it becomes a mere breathing . Though this movement of the voice may ...
... Sound capable of prolongation , uttered without excitement , and in a natural manner , commences full and somewhat abrupt , and gradually decreases in fullness , till it becomes a mere breathing . Though this movement of the voice may ...
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... sound - has been called the Vanishing movement of the voice . And these desi . nations continue the same , on whatever part of the sound the prin cipal force of the voice is laid This force of voice , however , is called STRESS ; and ...
... sound - has been called the Vanishing movement of the voice . And these desi . nations continue the same , on whatever part of the sound the prin cipal force of the voice is laid This force of voice , however , is called STRESS ; and ...
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... a prolongation and swell of the voicc . Roll on , thou deep and dark blue ocean , roll , Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain . 20 MODULATION . Motion and sound , in all their Modulation Examples of Modulation.
... a prolongation and swell of the voicc . Roll on , thou deep and dark blue ocean , roll , Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain . 20 MODULATION . Motion and sound , in all their Modulation Examples of Modulation.
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... sound , in all their modifications , are , in de- scriptive reading , more or less imitated . To glide , to drive , to swell , to flow , to skip , to whirl , to turn , to run , to rattle , etc. , all partake of a peculiar modifi- cation ...
... sound , in all their modifications , are , in de- scriptive reading , more or less imitated . To glide , to drive , to swell , to flow , to skip , to whirl , to turn , to run , to rattle , etc. , all partake of a peculiar modifi- cation ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
33 Rose 50 Cents Absalom ALBERT BATTLE OF IVRY blood body Bolus bound breath brow called dark dead death deep Demosthenes Description of Figure Dionysius dread earth Edom eloquence expression eyes Falsetto father fear fell fire FORCE OF VOICE Freedom gestures GHOST give Goliath grave hand hath head hear heard heart Heaven helmet of Navarre Henry of Navarre honorable member hope king land learner liberty light lips live look Lord mill grinds MODULATION MOUNT VESUVIUS mountain nature never numbers o'er orator passions piece Pompey Pythias recited right foot round scorn senate sentiments SHYLOCK sleep smile soul sound speak speaker spear speech spirit stress sword tears tell Tennessee thee thine things thou hast thought tone turn union UNITED STATES SENATE uttered watch wave WEBSTER'S wild WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT wind word young
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Página 57 - Kendal green, when it was so dark thou could'st not see thy hand ? come tell us your reason : What sayest thou to this ? Poins. Come, your reason, Jack, your reason. Fal. What, upon compulsion ? No ; were I at the strappado, or all the racks in the world, I would not tell you on compulsion. Give you a reason on compulsion ! if reasons were as plenty as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion, I. P.
Página 46 - I remember, when the fight was done, When I was dry with rage and extreme toil, Breathless and faint, leaning upon my sword, Came there a certain lord, neat...
Página 148 - ... tread. The robin and the wren are flown, and from the shrubs the jay, And from the wood-top calls the crow through all the gloomy day. Where are the flowers, the fair young flowers, that lately sprang and stood In brighter light and softer airs, a beauteous sisterhood ? Alas! they all are in their graves; the gentle race of flowers Are lying in their lowly beds with the fair and good of ours. The rain is falling where they lie; but the cold November rain Calls not from out the gloomy earth the...
Página 124 - She'd come again, and with a greedy ear Devour up my discourse; which I, observing, Took once a pliant hour and found good means To draw from her a prayer of earnest heart That I would all my pilgrimage dilate, Whereof by parcels she had something heard But not intentively.
Página 148 - The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere. Heaped in the hollows of the grove, the autumn leaves lie dead; They rustle to the eddying gust, and to the rabbit's tread ; The robin and the wren are flown, and from the shrubs the jay, And from the wood-top calls the crow through all the gloomy day. Where are the flowers, the fair young flowers, that lately sprang and stood In brighter light and softer airs, a beauteous sisterhood?
Página 54 - ... twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure.
Página 80 - Ay, tear her tattered ensign down ! Long has it waved on high, And many an eye has danced to see That banner in the sky; Beneath it rung the battle shout, And burst the cannon's roar; — The meteor of the ocean air Shall sweep the clouds no more. Her deck, once red with heroes...
Página 46 - He should, or he should not ; — for he made me mad, To see him shine so brisk, and smell so sweet, And talk so like a waiting-gentlewoman, Of guns, and drums, and wounds, (God save the mark!) And telling me, the sovereign'st thing on earth Was parmaceti, for an inward bruise ; And that it was great pity, so it was, That villainous salt-petre should be digg'd Out of the bowels of the harmless earth, Which many a good tall fellow had destroy'd So cowardly; and, but for these vile guns, He would himself...
Página 77 - All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players: They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
Página 124 - Of hair-breadth scapes i' the imminent deadly breach, Of being taken by the insolent foe And sold to slavery, of my redemption thence, And portance in my travel's history; Wherein of antres vast and deserts idle, Rough quarries, rocks, and hills whose heads touch heaven, It was my hint to speak, — such was the process: And of the Cannibals that each other eat, The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders.