New Science of Elocution: The Elements and Principles of Vocal Expression in Lessons, with Exercises and Selections Systematically Arranged for Acquiring the Art of Reading and Speaking |
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Tis the divinity that stirs within us ; ' Tis heaven itself that points out an hereafter , And intimates eternity to man . Eternity ! - thou pleasing , dreadful thought ! Through what variety of untried being , Through what new scenes ...
Tis the divinity that stirs within us ; ' Tis heaven itself that points out an hereafter , And intimates eternity to man . Eternity ! - thou pleasing , dreadful thought ! Through what variety of untried being , Through what new scenes ...
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Acquired Advantages answer appropriate Aspirate beautiful bells Breathing Class combination command dark dead deep Define DIAGRAM dreams Effusive Form elements Elocution Emphasis Energetic Force EXAMPLE EXERCISES EXERCISES IN ARTICULATION Explosive expression Expulsive Form eyes face fall fear feeling Gesture give given Grouping Guttural hand head hear heard heart heaven High Pitch hope Illustration Impassioned Force Inflection Lady LESSON light live look Lord Low Pitch Median Stress MICHIGAN Middle Moderate Force mother Movement nature never night notes o'er once Oral Orotund Orotund Quality passed passions Pectoral Position practice principle Pure Tone Quality QUESTIONS Radical Stress Rapid Repeat require Rising selection sentences Slow Movement soul sound speak stand stanza Subdued Force sweet tears tell thee things third thou thought utterance voice wave
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Page 296 - 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.
Page 61 - Hear the sledges with the bells Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night! While the stars that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight...
Page 340 - thing of evil! - prophet still, if bird or devil! By that Heaven that bends above us - by that God we both adore Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn, It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore Clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore.
Page 290 - Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile, Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court? Here feel we but the penalty of Adam, — The seasons...
Page 339 - Startled at the stillness broken by reply so aptly spoken, "Doubtless," said I, "what it utters is its only stock and store, Caught from some unhappy master whom unmerciful disaster Followed fast and followed faster till his songs one burden bore: Till the dirges of his hope that melancholy burden bore Of 'Never— nevermore.
Page 248 - 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.
Page 227 - So stately his form, and so lovely her face, that never a hall such a galliard did grace; while her mother did fret, and her father did fume. and the bridegroom stood dangling his bonnet and plume ; and the bride-maidens whispered, "Twere better by far to have matched our fair cousin with young Lochinvar.
Page 230 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.
Page 227 - mong Graemes of the Netherby clan; Forsters, Fenwicks, and Musgraves, they rode and they ran : There was racing and chasing, on Cannobie Lee, But the lost bride of Netherby ne'er did they see. So daring in love, and so dauntless in war, Have ye e'er heard of gallant like young Lochinvar ? xiii.
Page 313 - Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die, Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.
Bibliographic information
| Pealkiri | New Science of Elocution: The Elements and Principles of Vocal Expression in Lessons, with Exercises and Selections Systematically Arranged for Acquiring the Art of Reading and Speaking Granger index reprint series |
| Autor | S. S. Hamill |
| Publisher | Phillips & Hunt, 1886 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 30 jaan. 2007 |
| Length | 382 pages |
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