Spoken English: A Method of Improving Speech and Reading by Studying Voice Conditions and Modulations in Union with Their Causes in Thinking and FeelingExpression Company, 1913 - 320 pages |
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... comes an idea , and the words to express it follow . Ideas should come to us in a similar way when we read , for though we get the idea after we see the words , yet we hold the idea in the mind before we speak them . From all these ...
... comes an idea , and the words to express it follow . Ideas should come to us in a similar way when we read , for though we get the idea after we see the words , yet we hold the idea in the mind before we speak them . From all these ...
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... Come , dear bird , and build your nest , For we love our robin best . Louisa May Alcott Suppose a boy who loves birds discovers a robin , the first robin of the spring , and runs to tell someone about it . He will be excited , full of ...
... Come , dear bird , and build your nest , For we love our robin best . Louisa May Alcott Suppose a boy who loves birds discovers a robin , the first robin of the spring , and runs to tell someone about it . He will be excited , full of ...
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... come as a surprise to you . In the second line when you take in the first four words , and especially the word " ship , " though you wonder what a tree has to do with a ship , a vivid picture will arise in your mind and you will give ...
... come as a surprise to you . In the second line when you take in the first four words , and especially the word " ship , " though you wonder what a tree has to do with a ship , a vivid picture will arise in your mind and you will give ...
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... act in its own way . We need to give definite attention and hold whatever comes into our minds as an impression that will cause expression . THE BLUEBIRD A bit of sky to make a coat 16 SPOKEN ENGLISH Attention and Mental Pictures.
... act in its own way . We need to give definite attention and hold whatever comes into our minds as an impression that will cause expression . THE BLUEBIRD A bit of sky to make a coat 16 SPOKEN ENGLISH Attention and Mental Pictures.
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... their lives , other pictures arise in your mind with the word " " butterfly , " and you see things which would never have come to you but for this careful observation . THE PUSSY - CAT BIRD To - day when the 18 SPOKEN ENGLISH.
... their lives , other pictures arise in your mind with the word " " butterfly , " and you see things which would never have come to you but for this careful observation . THE PUSSY - CAT BIRD To - day when the 18 SPOKEN ENGLISH.
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action attention Author not known awaken beautiful bird blue body Brahman breath brook called changes of pitch Cleon Clinton Scollard cried drip earnestness Edwin Markham emotion epic eyes falling inflexion flowers genuine give glad grass Hark hear heard heart Henry Van Dyke Henry Wadsworth Longfellow idea imagination and feeling impression Inchcape Rock intensity king Kioto laugh lines little brown brother Little Robin Redbreast live look loud lyric lyric poetry mind modulations mother nature never night observe ourselves pause phrase accent picture poem poetry rain realize Robert Louis Stevenson robin sail sing song sound speak spirit spring story sweet sympathetic sympathy talk tell thee things thinking and feeling thou thought throat tion tone color tone passage touch trees true veery voice wind wings words
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Page 96 - Man is his own star; and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light, all influence, all fate; Nothing to him falls early or too late. Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.
Page 102 - O May I Join The Choir Invisible! O may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence...
Page 194 - Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God: and his flesh came again like unto the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.
Page 263 - In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born, across the sea, With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me: As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, While God is marching on.
Page 143 - If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions : I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
Page 171 - You friendly Earth, how far do you go, With the wheat-fields that nod and the rivers that flow, With cities and gardens, and cliffs and isles, And people upon you for thousands of miles?
Page 82 - Sail on! Sail on! Sail on! and on!'" They sailed and sailed, as winds might blow, Until at last the blanched mate said: "Why, now not even God would know Should I and all my men fall dead. These very winds forget their way, For God from these dread seas is gone. Now speak, brave Adm'r'l; speak and say — " He said: "Sail on! Sail on! and on!
Page 254 - Storm'd at with shot and shell, Boldly they rode and well, Into the jaws of Death, Into the mouth of Hell, Rode the six hundred. Flashed all their sabres bare, Flashed as they turned in air, Sab'ring the gunners there...
Page 262 - Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword: His truth is marching on.
Page 312 - But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up steadfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and. Jesus standing on the right hand of God...