The Art of Elocution: From the Simple Articulation of the Elemental Sounds of Language, Up to the Highest Tone of Expression in Speech, Attainable by the Human Voice |
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... style of reading the language of its prose writers and poets , cannot be too assiduously cultivated by a lady : the accomplishment is peculiarly feminine , and its possession is a distinctive mark of high breeding and good education ...
... style of reading the language of its prose writers and poets , cannot be too assiduously cultivated by a lady : the accomplishment is peculiarly feminine , and its possession is a distinctive mark of high breeding and good education ...
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... style of Elocution , are as essential , almost , as force of argument and grace of language . How many a good story is marred in the telling : how many a good sermon is lost in the preaching : how many a good speech , excellent in ...
... style of Elocution , are as essential , almost , as force of argument and grace of language . How many a good story is marred in the telling : how many a good sermon is lost in the preaching : how many a good speech , excellent in ...
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... style ; but read and speak naturally , as if you understood and felt what you are reading and speaking ; nature and habit will show you how ; though , at the same time , however clearly you may understand , and however deeply you may ...
... style ; but read and speak naturally , as if you understood and felt what you are reading and speaking ; nature and habit will show you how ; though , at the same time , however clearly you may understand , and however deeply you may ...
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... style of composition , every variety of feeling , every vicissitude of passion and the Elocution- ist who is thoroughly master of his art , no more fixes his at- tention , while speaking , on his own voice , INTRODUCTION . 19.
... style of composition , every variety of feeling , every vicissitude of passion and the Elocution- ist who is thoroughly master of his art , no more fixes his at- tention , while speaking , on his own voice , INTRODUCTION . 19.
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... style of delivery , by exercising himself , on rule , in giving voice and expression to the language of oth- ers , or to his own premeditated and pre - written effusions , - till , from practice , what he has done continually , by rule ...
... style of delivery , by exercising himself , on rule , in giving voice and expression to the language of oth- ers , or to his own premeditated and pre - written effusions , - till , from practice , what he has done continually , by rule ...
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accelerando accented ADRASTUS antithesis arms articulation beauty blood breath Brutus Cæsar Cassius character Christian close common compound inflections dark death delivery diphthongal distinct doth ducats earth elementary sounds emphasis of force emphasis of sense EXAMPLES exercise expression falling inflection feeling gesture give Godfrey of Bouillon grace hand Harfleur hath heard heart heaven Helon high pitch honor hope human voice Intonation king language legato light live Lochinvar Lord marked MEDON melody ment mercy middle pause middle pitch mind nature Netherby never noble o'er orator passage passion perfect practice presto pronominal phrase prose prosodial reading rhythm rising inflection Roche Rome rules sentence Shylock simple solemn soul speak speaker speech spirit style swelling syllables system of Elocution thee thought tion tone tonic sound utterance Vandenhoff's Venice verse voice vowel weep word
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Page 324 - I cannot tell what you and other men Think of this life, but, for my single self, I had as lief not be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself.
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Page 352 - tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them ? To die : to sleep ; No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache, and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to ?—'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep...