Common School Elocution and Oratory: a Manual of Vocal Culture Based Upon Scientific Principles ...I. H. Brown & Company, 1886 - 305 pages |
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... marked in their vocal expression by a clear , smooth , melodious resonance , conveying to the listener a sensa- tion of sympathy and a conviction of the speaker's sin- cerity and earnestness . The NORMAL QUALITIES are divided into PURE ...
... marked in their vocal expression by a clear , smooth , melodious resonance , conveying to the listener a sensa- tion of sympathy and a conviction of the speaker's sin- cerity and earnestness . The NORMAL QUALITIES are divided into PURE ...
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... marked when , in adventurous boyhood , we scaled the lofty cliff to pluck the first ripe grapes and bear them home in childish triumph . I told the prætor that the dead man had been my friend , generous and brave , and I begged that I ...
... marked when , in adventurous boyhood , we scaled the lofty cliff to pluck the first ripe grapes and bear them home in childish triumph . I told the prætor that the dead man had been my friend , generous and brave , and I begged that I ...
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... repeat the long vowels a , e , i , o , u , with nine degrees of Force without change of pitch , as marked in the following diagram . Begin with the least audible sound that can be uttered , and increase 86 COMMON SCHOOL ELOCUTION .
... repeat the long vowels a , e , i , o , u , with nine degrees of Force without change of pitch , as marked in the following diagram . Begin with the least audible sound that can be uttered , and increase 86 COMMON SCHOOL ELOCUTION .
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... marked significance used in ordinary narration , description and unimpassioned conversation . 155. Examples : NARRATION . 74 . [ " Eggs . " - Beecher . ] I never come upon a nest of eggs , secreted by the hen most conscientiously , and ...
... marked significance used in ordinary narration , description and unimpassioned conversation . 155. Examples : NARRATION . 74 . [ " Eggs . " - Beecher . ] I never come upon a nest of eggs , secreted by the hen most conscientiously , and ...
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... marked by some one of the musical intervals of a major scale , viz .: a " third , " " fifth " or " octave ; " that is , the voice slides through an interval of three , five or eight notes . 158 . UPWARD SLIDE The Upward Slide is an ...
... marked by some one of the musical intervals of a major scale , viz .: a " third , " " fifth " or " octave ; " that is , the voice slides through an interval of three , five or eight notes . 158 . UPWARD SLIDE The Upward Slide is an ...
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Abnormal Qualities Absalom arms Aspirate Baby Bunn beautiful bells blood boot-black breath called Caudle chest command cried dark dear death degree of force Doub Douglas William Jerrold Downward Slide Elocution emotions Emphasis Examples exercise eyes Falsetto fear feet foot forest fly friends Gentlemen gesture give grace Guttural hand hear heard heart heaven high pitch Hurrah ILLUSTRATIONS IN NATURE intensity king larynx liberty light look Lord Lord Cardigan low pitch Mark Twain mid shot mind Mortimer mouth movement musical scale Nearer never Niagara River night o'er orators Orotund pauses pharynx Pillars of Hercules pitch pupil Pure Tone Radical Stress reading Ring sentence sentiment shout smile solemn soul sound speak speaker speech stand sublime Subvocals sweet tell thee There's thou tion tricity Uncle Peter Upward Slide utterance vocal expression voice waves
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Page 148 - The wide, th' unbounded prospect, lies before me; But shadows, clouds, and darkness rest upon it. 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 69 - I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes ? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions ? fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is ? If you prick us, do we not bleed ? if you tickle us, do we not laugh ? if you poison us, do we not die ? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge 1 if we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that.
Page 53 - Oh, the bells, bells, bells! What a tale their terror tells Of Despair! How they clang, and clash, and roar! What a horror they outpour On the bosom of the palpitating air! Yet the ear it fully knows, By the twanging, And the clanging, How the danger ebbs and flows; Yet the ear distinctly tells, In the jangling, And the wrangling, How the danger sinks and swells, By the sinking or the swelling in the anger of the bells Of the bells Of the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells In the clamor...
Page 55 - 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 142 - twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street; On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the glowing Hours with flying feet.— But hark!
Page 101 - O well for the sailor lad That he sings in his boat on the bay! And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill; But O for the touch of a vanished hand, And the sound of a voice that is still! Break, break, break, At the foot of thy crags, O sea! But the tender grace of a day that is dead Will never come back to me.
Page 293 - And as he thus spake for himself, Festus said with a loud voice, Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning doth make thee mad. 25 But he said, I am not mad, most noble Festus, but speak forth the words of truth and soberness.
Page 54 - The armaments which thunderstrike the walls Of rock-built cities, bidding nations quake And monarchs tremble in their capitals, The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord of thee and arbiter of war, — These are thy toys, and, as the snowy flake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride or spoils of Trafalgar.
Page 83 - How ill this taper burns ! Ha ! who comes here ? I think it is the weakness of mine eyes That shapes this monstrous apparition.
Page 66 - Ghost. I am thy father's spirit ; Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night ; And, for the day, confined to fast in fires, Till the foul crimes, done in my days of nature, Are burnt and purged away.