Orthophony: Or, Vocal Culture in Elocution: A Manual of Elementary Exercises, Adapted to Dr. Rush's "Philosophy of the Human Voice," and Designed as an Introduction to Russell's "American Elocutionist."W.D. Ticknor and Company, 1845 - 336 من الصفحات |
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... distinct classes of instructers for the voice : one , to superintend practice in pitch ; another , to conduct the exercises in force , and a third , to regulate vocal melody and inflections . Modern taste forbids this fastidious ...
... distinct classes of instructers for the voice : one , to superintend practice in pitch ; another , to conduct the exercises in force , and a third , to regulate vocal melody and inflections . Modern taste forbids this fastidious ...
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... distinct , effective , and appropriate utterance . Continuing our investigation of voice , we return , for a moment , to the case of a person in the act of silent reading . Let the reader come to a passage , not of exciting effect or ...
... distinct , effective , and appropriate utterance . Continuing our investigation of voice , we return , for a moment , to the case of a person in the act of silent reading . Let the reader come to a passage , not of exciting effect or ...
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... distinct articulation , in the function of speech . Used with exact adaptation to their office , they give a clear and distinct character to enunciation ; but , remissly exerted , they cause a course hissing , resembling the sibilation ...
... distinct articulation , in the function of speech . Used with exact adaptation to their office , they give a clear and distinct character to enunciation ; but , remissly exerted , they cause a course hissing , resembling the sibilation ...
الصفحة 22
... distinct articulation . CHAPTER II . FUNCTION OF BREATHING . THE organs of voice , in common with all other parts of the bodily frame , require the vigor and pliancy of muscle , and the elasticity and animation of nerve , which result ...
... distinct articulation . CHAPTER II . FUNCTION OF BREATHING . THE organs of voice , in common with all other parts of the bodily frame , require the vigor and pliancy of muscle , and the elasticity and animation of nerve , which result ...
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... distinct enunciation , the unfailing characteristic of correct intellectual habits , and the only means of exact and intelligible communication by speech . - But a distinct enunciation is wholly dependent on the action of the organs ...
... distinct enunciation , the unfailing characteristic of correct intellectual habits , and the only means of exact and intelligible communication by speech . - But a distinct enunciation is wholly dependent on the action of the organs ...
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accent appropriate articulation Aspirated pectoral aspirated quality breath brisk cadence character Coriolanus deep degree diphthong distinct downward slide droll humor earth effect Effusive orotund element elocution emotion emphasis enunciation error exemplified exercises explosive expression Expulsive orotund fault feeling following examples force forest fly gentle glottis grave guttural habit heart heaven Heroic Couplet High pitch horror human voice Hyder Ali Impassioned impressive language larynx light Lord Low pitch marked median stress melody ment Metre Middle pitch mode Moderate monotone movement musical scale natural o'er oratorical declamation organs Pathos Pectoral Quality phrases practice prolonged prosodial pure tone quantity radical stress reader reading rhetorical rhythm scale semitone sentence sentiment solemn soul speaker speaking speech Stanza student style subdued Sublimity subtonic syllables Tarpeian rock termed thee thou tion tonic trachea unimpassioned usually utterance vanishing stress verse vivid vocal sound voice wave whispering words
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الصفحة 334 - Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since ; their shores obey The stranger, slave or savage ; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts — not so thou Unchangeable, save to thy wild waves
الصفحة 100 - THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds...
الصفحة 111 - Sir, we are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. Three millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us.
الصفحة 206 - Your infants in your arms, and there have sat The live-long day, with patient expectation, To see great Pompey pass the streets of Rome...
الصفحة 336 - Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve in Beauty's circle proudly gay, The midnight brought the signal-sound of strife, The morn the marshalling in arms, — the day Battle's...
الصفحة 112 - Ye Ice-falls! ye that from the mountain's brow Adown enormous ravines slope amain — Torrents, methinks, that heard a mighty voice, And stopped at once amid their maddest plunge! Motionless torrents! silent cataracts! Who made you glorious as the gates of Heaven Beneath the keen full moon? Who bade the sun Clothe you with rainbows? Who, with living flowers Of loveliest blue, spread garlands at your feet? — God ! let the torrents, like a shout of nations, Answer! and let the ice-plains echo, God!
الصفحة 138 - Union; on states dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood ! Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic, now known and honored throughout the earth, still full high advanced, its arms and trophies streaming in their original lustre, not a stripe erased or polluted, nor a single star obscured, bearing for its motto no such miserable interrogatory as "What is all this worth?
الصفحة 111 - Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
الصفحة 253 - He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress (Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers...