A New Elucidation of the Principles of Speech and Elocution: A Full Theoretical Development, with Numerous Practical Exercises, for the Correction of Imperfect, Or the Relief of Impeded Utterance, and for the General Improvement of Reading and Speaking; the Whole Forming a Complete Directory for Articulation, and Expressive, Oral DeliveryThe author, 1849 - 311 pages |
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... soft , & c . have been applied by different persons to opposite classes of letters ; and , so little have they been made to convey any idea to the - - mind , we have heard the two former terms 10 THE ELEMENTS OF SPEECH .
... soft , & c . have been applied by different persons to opposite classes of letters ; and , so little have they been made to convey any idea to the - - mind , we have heard the two former terms 10 THE ELEMENTS OF SPEECH .
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... character to the voice . It is important to * The vibrating length of the tongue may be altered by means of a piece of thread , as shown in the cut . all persons who labour under difficulties in speech , or 14 THE VOICE .
... character to the voice . It is important to * The vibrating length of the tongue may be altered by means of a piece of thread , as shown in the cut . all persons who labour under difficulties in speech , or 14 THE VOICE .
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... persons who labour under difficulties in speech , or in the management of their voices , to be perfectly familiar ... person to master this principle in speech . Inhale a full breath , and retain it for some seconds ; then , with all ...
... persons who labour under difficulties in speech , or in the management of their voices , to be perfectly familiar ... person to master this principle in speech . Inhale a full breath , and retain it for some seconds ; then , with all ...
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... person , guided by his ears , and not by preconceived classifications , strive to lengthen the generally short vowel i , as in vision , him , ill , & c . he will find that the tendency of the prolonged sound will be towards a ( le ) ...
... person , guided by his ears , and not by preconceived classifications , strive to lengthen the generally short vowel i , as in vision , him , ill , & c . he will find that the tendency of the prolonged sound will be towards a ( le ) ...
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... person may direct his own practice for the acquirement of pharyngeal power . Give all possible stress to the effort of F expiration while the lips are steadily closed , and if ARTICULATIONS . 41 Produced by distension of the Pharynx,
... person may direct his own practice for the acquirement of pharyngeal power . Give all possible stress to the effort of F expiration while the lips are steadily closed , and if ARTICULATIONS . 41 Produced by distension of the Pharynx,
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Page 49 - ... accent of Christians nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed, that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Page 208 - Night, sable goddess ! from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world. Silence how dead! and darkness how profound! Nor eye nor listening ear an object finds ; Creation sleeps. 'Tis as the general pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause ; An awful pause! prophetic of her end.
Page 207 - LIKE to the falling of a star, Or as the flights of eagles are, Or like the fresh spring's gaudy hue, Or silver drops of morning dew, Or like a wind that chafes the flood, Or bubbles which on water stood : Even such is man, whose borrowed light Is straight called in and paid to-night.
Page 216 - There are a sort of men whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pond, And do a wilful stillness entertain, With purpose to be dress'd in an opinion Of wisdom, gravity, profound conceit, As who should say, 'I am Sir Oracle, And when I ope my lips let no dog bark!
Page 207 - It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Page 214 - Something, whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind.
Page 211 - At thirty man suspects himself a fool ; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan ; At fifty chides his infamous delay, Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve; In all the magnanimity of thought Resolves and re-resolves; then dies the same.
Page 212 - Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume, And we are weeds without it. All constraint, Except what wisdom lays on evil men, Is evil ; hurts the faculties, impedes Their progress in the road of science ; blinds The eyesight of discovery, and begets In those that suffer it a sordid mind Bestial, a meagre intellect, unfit To be the tenant of man's noble form.
Page 253 - Must give us pause: there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life; For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, 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?
Page 214 - Tis but a night, a long and moonless night ; We make the grave our bed, and then are gone.