A Grammar of Elocution: Adapted to the Use of Teachers and Learners in the Art of Reading; Being a Digest of the Principles of Vocal Delivery. An Inductive System, in Three Parts: Articulation, Intonation, and Measure as Taught at the Vocal Institute, PhiladelphiaH. Cowperthwait & Company, 1858 - 273 páginas |
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Página 76
... means . * The habit of speaking in spectacles has been considered objec- tionable on account of the compression occasioned at the point of contact ; a degree of nasality will be likely to ensue . † These terms , head and chest tones ...
... means . * The habit of speaking in spectacles has been considered objec- tionable on account of the compression occasioned at the point of contact ; a degree of nasality will be likely to ensue . † These terms , head and chest tones ...
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... means the prolongation or continuance of sound . Syllables containing the long vowel sounds are often eminently susceptible of quantity , as ' angel , ' ' holy , ' ' hail . ' The first syllable in each of these words owes its quantity ...
... means the prolongation or continuance of sound . Syllables containing the long vowel sounds are often eminently susceptible of quantity , as ' angel , ' ' holy , ' ' hail . ' The first syllable in each of these words owes its quantity ...
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... means simply the giving of accent or force to the right syllable of a word , and a certain breadth or closeness to the vowel sounds . Now in this narrow signification , it may be difficult to find a standard of pronunciation which the ...
... means simply the giving of accent or force to the right syllable of a word , and a certain breadth or closeness to the vowel sounds . Now in this narrow signification , it may be difficult to find a standard of pronunciation which the ...
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... mean the custom of the vulgar , such autho- rity will not furnish a suitable rule for those who seek to advance or improve . If the custom of the refined and the erudite is intended , this is , to a certain extent , the test to which ...
... mean the custom of the vulgar , such autho- rity will not furnish a suitable rule for those who seek to advance or improve . If the custom of the refined and the erudite is intended , this is , to a certain extent , the test to which ...
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... means elevation or depres- sion of voice , as referred to the musical scale . INFLECTION is the change of pitch which takes place in the utterance of a single syllable ; and the CADENCE involves a change affecting both pitch and ...
... means elevation or depres- sion of voice , as referred to the musical scale . INFLECTION is the change of pitch which takes place in the utterance of a single syllable ; and the CADENCE involves a change affecting both pitch and ...
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accented syllable beauty cadence called ceived cerns CHAPTER character circumflex cognate commence consonant correct elocution emphasis English language exercises eyes father fault fore giki give habit hallowed ground hand harmonious hath heard heart heaven Hecuba Human Voice intonation Jesus language letter light lord MALVOLIO marked measure melody mind musical intervals musical scale nation nature never night orbs pause peace Phila pitch pool of Siloam practice praise prangly principles pronounced pronunciation pupil quired reading represented rest RICHARD III Romeo scoring second member sentence slavery sleep soul Speak gently speech spirit spoken sub-vowel sound sweet tain teacher teaching thee thine thing thou art thra three syllables tion tone unaccented syllables unto utterance vocal voice vowel element vowel sound whou widely inflected Λ Λ
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Página 284 - In the corrupted currents of this world Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice, And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law...
Página 125 - The Prince of Cumberland ! that is a step, On which I must fall down, or else o'erleap, For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires ; Let not light see my black and deep desires : The eye wink at the hand ; yet let that be, Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see.
Página 286 - I know my course. The spirit that I have seen May be the devil : and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape ; yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, — As he is very potent with such spirits, — Abuses me to damn me...
Página 282 - With that grim ferryman which poets write of. Unto the kingdom of perpetual night. The first that there did greet my stranger soul Was my great father-in-law, renowned Warwick : Who cried aloud: 'What scourge for perjury Can this dark monarchy afford false Clarence?
Página 285 - Is it not monstrous, that this player here, But in a fiction, in a dream of passion, Could force his soul so to his own conceit, That, from her working, all his visage wann'd ; Tears in his eyes, distraction in's aspect, A broken voice, and his whole function suiting With forms to his conceit ? And all for nothing ! For Hecuba ! What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba," That he should weep for her...
Página 291 - Well, do not swear: although I joy in thee, I have no joy of this contract to-night : It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden ; Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be, Ere one can say — It lightens.
Página 274 - ABOU BEN ADHEM (may his tribe increase!) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace, And saw within the moonlight in his room, Making it rich and like a lily in bloom, An angel writing in a book of gold: Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold, And to the presence in the room he said, "What writest thou?
Página 288 - Retain that dear perfection which he owes Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name, And for that name which is no part of thee Take all myself.
Página 201 - The man answered and said unto them, Why herein is a marvellous thing, that ye know not from whence he is, and yet he hath opened mine eyes.
Página 274 - The names of those who love the Lord." "And is mine one?" said Abou. "Nay, not so,