The Art of Elocution, Or, Logical and Musical Reading and Declamation: With an Appendix, Containing a Copious Practice in Oratorical, Poetical, and Dramatic Reading and Recitation, the Whole Forming a Complete Speaker, Well Adapted to Private Pupils, Classes, and the Use of Schools1851 - 393 pages |
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... from a digression , or from excited declamation to calm statement and logical discussion . This pause affords an opportunity to correct the tone or pitch of voice , which may have reached a high range 70 ART OF ELOCUTION .
... from a digression , or from excited declamation to calm statement and logical discussion . This pause affords an opportunity to correct the tone or pitch of voice , which may have reached a high range 70 ART OF ELOCUTION .
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... pitch , —its tohes , —its semi - tones , its bass , its tenor , its alt - its melody , its cadence . It can speak as gently as the lute , " like the sweet south upon a bed of vio- lets , " or as shrilly as the trumpet ; it can tune the ...
... pitch , —its tohes , —its semi - tones , its bass , its tenor , its alt - its melody , its cadence . It can speak as gently as the lute , " like the sweet south upon a bed of vio- lets , " or as shrilly as the trumpet ; it can tune the ...
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... pitch being at the highest on " or , " when the voice imme- diately descends on " fall . " pitch from low to high , is doubtless accent . We derive the grave and acute accents from the Greeks , who , it is supposed , used them to denote ...
... pitch being at the highest on " or , " when the voice imme- diately descends on " fall . " pitch from low to high , is doubtless accent . We derive the grave and acute accents from the Greeks , who , it is supposed , used them to denote ...
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... pitch in- creases as the force of the speaker increases . In or- dinary speech , where no particular force is given , -in a perfectly indifferent question , for example , -the rise would not be more than of one tone : as , " Will my ...
... pitch in- creases as the force of the speaker increases . In or- dinary speech , where no particular force is given , -in a perfectly indifferent question , for example , -the rise would not be more than of one tone : as , " Will my ...
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... pitch of the voice , and giving it facility and pliability . The student should therefore practise it till he can strike the third , rising and falling , clearly , forcibly , and with certainty . all at alm lord ale at end old end old ...
... pitch of the voice , and giving it facility and pliability . The student should therefore practise it till he can strike the third , rising and falling , clearly , forcibly , and with certainty . all at alm lord ale at end old end old ...
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Page 358 - The quality of mercy is not strain'd ; It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven, Upon the place beneath ; it is twice bless'd ; It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes : 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest ; it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown...
Page 288 - O, young Lochinvar is come out of the west, Through all the wide Border his steed was the best ; And save his good broad-sword he weapon had none, He rode all unarmed, and he rode all alone. So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war, There never was knight like the young Lochinvar.
Page 337 - He was my friend, faithful and just to me : But Brutus says he was ambitious ; And Brutus is an honorable man. He hath brought many captives home to Rome, Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill...
Page 319 - Lochiel, Lochiel ! beware of the day ; For, dark and despairing, my sight I may seal, But man cannot cover what God would reveal. 'Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before.
Page 282 - Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun; the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between; The venerable woods; rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the meadows green...
Page 282 - Take the wings Of morning, and the Barcan desert pierce, Or lose thyself in the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound Save his own dashings — yet the dead are there ! And millions in those solitudes, since first The flight of years began, have laid them down In their last sleep — the dead reign there alone.
Page 324 - ... tis true, this god did shake ; His coward lips did from their colour fly; And that same eye whose bend doth awe the world Did lose his lustre : I did hear him groan : Ay, and that tongue of his that bade the Romans Mark him, and write his speeches in their books, Alas ! it cried, " Give me some drink, Titinius,
Page 326 - Signior Antonio, many a time and oft In the Rialto you have rated me About my monies, and my usances : Still have I borne it with a patient shrug ; For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe...
Page 308 - 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?" The vision raised its head, And with a look made of all sweet accord, Answered, "The names of those who love the Lord.
Page 174 - From wandering on a foreign strand ! — If such there breathe, go, mark him well ; For him no minstrel raptures swell,; High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim ; Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch...