A Practical Manual of Elocution: Embracing Voice and Gesture ...Sorin & Ball, 1846 - 357 páginas |
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... rising into life - shall prepare themselves to bear off the honors in such a contest for usefulness and honorable distinction . Eloquence , or even oratory , does not however consist wholly in a good elocution . Elocution concerns only ...
... rising into life - shall prepare themselves to bear off the honors in such a contest for usefulness and honorable distinction . Eloquence , or even oratory , does not however consist wholly in a good elocution . Elocution concerns only ...
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... rising to the highest pitch of which the voice is ca- pable . This exercise judiciously and perseveringly prac- ticed cannot fail to give the learner the command of a suffi- ciently extensive compass of voice . The changes of pitch ...
... rising to the highest pitch of which the voice is ca- pable . This exercise judiciously and perseveringly prac- ticed cannot fail to give the learner the command of a suffi- ciently extensive compass of voice . The changes of pitch ...
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... which , except the first , may be represented by the aid of the musical scale . * Called in our old books on Elocution rising and falling Inflections . Upward Fifth . Downward Fifth . Upward Octave . 1. SLIDES OF THE VOICE . 59.
... which , except the first , may be represented by the aid of the musical scale . * Called in our old books on Elocution rising and falling Inflections . Upward Fifth . Downward Fifth . Upward Octave . 1. SLIDES OF THE VOICE . 59.
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... rising slide , and the grave accent- the falling . And whenever this latter inflection occurs , it is to be specially borne in mind , that the downward movement does not commence on the same line of pitch with the current melody , but ...
... rising slide , and the grave accent- the falling . And whenever this latter inflection occurs , it is to be specially borne in mind , that the downward movement does not commence on the same line of pitch with the current melody , but ...
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... rising and the failing slide , as it occurs in speech ; nor till he can execute them at pleasure . The learner need scarcely be reminded , though we treat the different functions of the voice separately and devote to them different ...
... rising and the failing slide , as it occurs in speech ; nor till he can execute them at pleasure . The learner need scarcely be reminded , though we treat the different functions of the voice separately and devote to them different ...
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Página 144 - And let those that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them : for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the mean time, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered: that's villainous; and . shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.
Página 174 - Caesar carelessly but nod on him. He had a fever when he was in Spain ; And, when the fit was on him, I did mark How he did shake...
Página 174 - 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 131 - The gay will laugh When thou art gone, the solemn brood of care Plod on, and each one, as before, will chase His favorite phantom ; yet all these shall leave Their mirth and their employments, and shall come And make their bed with thee.
Página 130 - Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests: in all time, Calm or convulsed — in breeze, or gale, or storm. Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark-heaving; — boundless, endless, and sublime; The image of eternity, the throne Of the Invisible: even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Página 110 - Perhaps thou gavest me, though unfelt, a kiss ; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss ; Ah, that maternal smile, it answers yes ! I heard the bell tolled on thy burial day, I saw the hearse that bore thee slow away, And, turning from my nursery window, drew A long, long sigh, and wept a last adieu ! But was it such ? It was.
Página 130 - And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?
Página 165 - Julius bleed for justice sake • What villain touched his body, that did stab, And not for justice ? What, shall one of us, That struck the foremost man of all this world, But for supporting robbers — shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes? And sell the mighty space of our large honors For so much trash, as may be grasped thus ? I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, Than such a Roman.
Página 143 - Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines.
Página 129 - HAIL, holy Light, offspring of Heaven first-born! Or of the Eternal coeternal beam May I express thee unblamed? since God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity — dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate!