The Franklin Sixth Reader and Speaker: Consisting of Extracts in Prose and Verse, with Biographical and Critical Notices of the AuthorsTaintor Brothers, Merrill, & Company, 1874 - 444 pages |
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... speaking quietude That wraps this moveless scene . Heaven's ebon vault , Studded with stars unutterably bright , Through which the moon's unclouded grandeur rolls , Seems like a canopy which Love has spread To curtain her sleeping world ...
... speaking quietude That wraps this moveless scene . Heaven's ebon vault , Studded with stars unutterably bright , Through which the moon's unclouded grandeur rolls , Seems like a canopy which Love has spread To curtain her sleeping world ...
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... speak or read ? Evidently and always , loud enough to be heard without the slightest effort on the part of the audience . Not only so , but one should commonly use a somewhat greater degree of force than this , in order to allow room ...
... speak or read ? Evidently and always , loud enough to be heard without the slightest effort on the part of the audience . Not only so , but one should commonly use a somewhat greater degree of force than this , in order to allow room ...
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... speak , or , as we prefer to call it , the volume , of the voice . We instinctively open the mouth wide for full and resonant organ utterance in the former , and we narrow the vocal aperture for the slight yet sharp sounds of the sleigh ...
... speak , or , as we prefer to call it , the volume , of the voice . We instinctively open the mouth wide for full and resonant organ utterance in the former , and we narrow the vocal aperture for the slight yet sharp sounds of the sleigh ...
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... speaking all ordinary passages . * * The mechanical means of reading or speaking slowly are twofold : first , by pausing long between sentences , words , and syllables ; secondly , by pro- longing the sounds that are capable of being ...
... speaking all ordinary passages . * * The mechanical means of reading or speaking slowly are twofold : first , by pausing long between sentences , words , and syllables ; secondly , by pro- longing the sounds that are capable of being ...
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... speak of the " ear - piercing fife " in a slightly higher key than we use when we mention " the deep , dull tambour's beat . " We recognize , then , PITCH , as an element in vocal expression . In Nature , high sounds are usually ...
... speak of the " ear - piercing fife " in a slightly higher key than we use when we mention " the deep , dull tambour's beat . " We recognize , then , PITCH , as an element in vocal expression . In Nature , high sounds are usually ...
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