The Standard Speaker & Elocutionist ...Ward, Lock and Company, 1880 - 248 páginas |
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... I had done't - My husband ! " These illustrations will show that stops and pauses are of as much importance as variety in tone , emphasis , action , & c . Finally , having done all you think best to attain How to Read or Speak Well . 23.
... I had done't - My husband ! " These illustrations will show that stops and pauses are of as much importance as variety in tone , emphasis , action , & c . Finally , having done all you think best to attain How to Read or Speak Well . 23.
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... action , will become painful unless it is varied . One kind of tone soon becomes monotonous , just as one kind of action soon loses its signifi- cance . Aim , therefore . to use the whole range of your voice , though not its whole power ...
... action , will become painful unless it is varied . One kind of tone soon becomes monotonous , just as one kind of action soon loses its signifi- cance . Aim , therefore . to use the whole range of your voice , though not its whole power ...
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... action good acting . When we talk naturally , we also use the greatest variety of inflections , hence the best speaking or reading will be that which is the most natural . There are generally one or two words in every well - constructed ...
... action good acting . When we talk naturally , we also use the greatest variety of inflections , hence the best speaking or reading will be that which is the most natural . There are generally one or two words in every well - constructed ...
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... action should accompany certain words , it is of great importance that every endeavour should be made to make such action suitable , and also natural . An awkward action , or such as would be out of keeping with the words employed ...
... action should accompany certain words , it is of great importance that every endeavour should be made to make such action suitable , and also natural . An awkward action , or such as would be out of keeping with the words employed ...
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... action to the word , the word to the action ; with this special observance , that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature ; for anything so over- done is from the purpose of playing , whose end , both at the first and now , was , and is ...
... action to the word , the word to the action ; with this special observance , that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature ; for anything so over- done is from the purpose of playing , whose end , both at the first and now , was , and is ...
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Página 60 - For I can raise no money by vile means: By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring From the hard hands of peasants their' vile trash By any indirection.
Página 82 - 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 186 - 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 152 - God ! sing, ye meadow-streams, with gladsome voice! Ye pine-groves, with your soft and soul-like sounds ! And they, too, have a voice, yon piles of snow, And in their perilous fall, shall thunder, God...
Página 65 - I'll leave you till night; you are welcome to Elsinore. Ros. Good my lord ! [Exeunt Rosencrantz and Giiildenstern. Ham. Ay, so, God be wi' ye :—Now I am alone. O, what a rogue and 'peasant slave am I ! Is it not monstrous that this player here, But in a fiction, in a dream of passion, Could force his soul so to his own conceit...
Página 57 - WE watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life . Kept heaving to and fro. So silently we...
Página 151 - Risest from forth thy silent sea of pines, How silently ! Around thee and above Deep is the air and dark, substantial, black, An ebon mass : methinks thou piercest it As with a wedge ! But when I look again, It is thine own calm home, thy crystal shrine, Thy habitation from eternity ' 0 dread and silent Mount ! I gazed upon thee Till thou, still present to the bodily sense, Didst vanish from my thought : entranced in prayer 1 worshipped the Invisible alone.
Página 72 - The angels, not half so happy in heaven, Went envying her and me; Yes! that was the reason (as all men know, In this kingdom by the sea) That the wind came out of the cloud by night, Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.
Página 82 - O, young Lochinvar is come out of the west, Through all the wide Border his steed was the best ; And save his good broad-sword he weapon had none, He rode all unarmed, and he rode all alone. So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war, There never was knight like the young Lochinvar.
Página 21 - One touch to her hand, and one word in her ear. When they reached the hall door, and the charger stood near; So light to the croupe the fair lady he swung, So light to the saddle before her he sprung! "She is won! we are gone, over bank, bush, and scaur: They'll have fleet steeds that follow,