A Practical Manual of Elocution: Embracing Voice and Gesture : Designed for Schools, Academies and Colleges, as Well as for Private LearnersSorin & Ball, 1845 - 331 pagini |
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Pagina 20
... heard him deliver it ! " With Cicero , too , it was much the same . At the age of twenty - seven , according to Plutarch , after having arrived at some eminence as a pleader , " though his voice had a variety of inflections , it was at ...
... heard him deliver it ! " With Cicero , too , it was much the same . At the age of twenty - seven , according to Plutarch , after having arrived at some eminence as a pleader , " though his voice had a variety of inflections , it was at ...
Pagina 26
... heard . This suggests a strong correspondence between the voice and the action in delivery ; and yet they are so distinct , that it is presumed the learner will study them most successfully , if treated separately . Thus our treatise is ...
... heard . This suggests a strong correspondence between the voice and the action in delivery ; and yet they are so distinct , that it is presumed the learner will study them most successfully , if treated separately . Thus our treatise is ...
Pagina 32
... heard in the pronunciation of the English language , there are forty - two , ―sixteen vowel and twenty- six consonant sounds . - If the following tables are not phi- losophically correct , it is believed they are practically so . TABLE ...
... heard in the pronunciation of the English language , there are forty - two , ―sixteen vowel and twenty- six consonant sounds . - If the following tables are not phi- losophically correct , it is believed they are practically so . TABLE ...
Pagina 33
... practiced by a class . † As distinguished in unaffected pronunciation from rood . It is between the sound of the French u , and the sound of yu as heard in u - nion . TABLE II . CONSONANTS . Tonic Consonants . * 1 VOWEL ELEMENTS . 33.
... practiced by a class . † As distinguished in unaffected pronunciation from rood . It is between the sound of the French u , and the sound of yu as heard in u - nion . TABLE II . CONSONANTS . Tonic Consonants . * 1 VOWEL ELEMENTS . 33.
Pagina 35
... heard in speech is lost . 2. There follows the utterance of the consonant elements , a breathing or little voice , which has been conveniently de- signated the vocula , or vocule . This is most apparent after the utterance of the mutes ...
... heard in speech is lost . 2. There follows the utterance of the consonant elements , a breathing or little voice , which has been conveniently de- signated the vocula , or vocule . This is most apparent after the utterance of the mutes ...
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Pagina 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.
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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!
Pagina 165 - Julius bleed for justice' sake ? What villain touch'd 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 honours For so much trash as may be grasped thus ? — I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, Than such a Roman.
Pagina 112 - You say you are a better soldier: Let it appear so; make your vaunting true, And it shall please me well. For mine own part, I shall be glad to learn of noble men. Cas. You wrong me every way, you wrong me, Brutus; I said, an elder soldier, not a better: Did I say better?
Pagina 210 - Muse, that on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That shepherd, who first taught the chosen seed, In the beginning how the Heavens and Earth Rose out of Chaos...
Pagina 150 - This fellow's of exceeding honesty, And knows all qualities, with a learned spirit, Of human dealings. If I do prove her haggard, Though that her jesses were my dear heart-strings, I 'ld whistle her off and let her down the wind, To prey at fortune.
Pagina 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.