"Elocutionary Manual.": The Principles of Elocution, with Exercises and Notations, for Pronunciation, Intonation, Emphasis, Gesture and Emotional ExpressionJ. P. Burbank, 1878 - 243 pages |
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... feeling them an incumbrance and a hindrance to mental action . Constant thinking of inflec- tion proves fatal to reflection . What a student chiefly requires to know , is how to vary his voice ; if his own judgement and appreciation of ...
... feeling them an incumbrance and a hindrance to mental action . Constant thinking of inflec- tion proves fatal to reflection . What a student chiefly requires to know , is how to vary his voice ; if his own judgement and appreciation of ...
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... feeling of confidence in addressing an audience . Fear naturally collapses , and courage expands the chest ; and the cultivation of the habit of keeping the chest expanded in speech imparts courage , and prevents that perturbation of ...
... feeling of confidence in addressing an audience . Fear naturally collapses , and courage expands the chest ; and the cultivation of the habit of keeping the chest expanded in speech imparts courage , and prevents that perturbation of ...
Page 73
... feeling . " " To each , his sufferings ; all are men , Condemn'd , alike to groan ; The tender , for another's pain , The unfeeling for his own . " - Gray . The subject of Emphasis will be found more fully illus- trated in a subsequent ...
... feeling . " " To each , his sufferings ; all are men , Condemn'd , alike to groan ; The tender , for another's pain , The unfeeling for his own . " - Gray . The subject of Emphasis will be found more fully illus- trated in a subsequent ...
Page 75
... feeling of the speaker . Thus the rising turns are connective , referential , dubious , appellatory , or tender in expression ; and the falling inflexions are disjunctive , independent , positive , man- datory , or harsh . 3. The vocal ...
... feeling of the speaker . Thus the rising turns are connective , referential , dubious , appellatory , or tender in expression ; and the falling inflexions are disjunctive , independent , positive , man- datory , or harsh . 3. The vocal ...
Page 86
... feel it - at my heart ! My heart - at once - it humbles , - and - exalts ; Lays it in dust , - and - calls it to the skies . or- 38. 7th STAGE . Unite next in the same group or atorical word , " ADJECTIVES and the NOUNS they qualify ...
... feel it - at my heart ! My heart - at once - it humbles , - and - exalts ; Lays it in dust , - and - calls it to the skies . or- 38. 7th STAGE . Unite next in the same group or atorical word , " ADJECTIVES and the NOUNS they qualify ...
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accented syllable action adverb antithesis articulation blood body brave breath Brutus Cæsar clause compound dead death Diphthong doth earth effect Elocution emphasis emphatic exercise expressive fall fear feel fool gesture give glottis grammatical grief hand happy hath head heart heaven honour house of York idea imitative implied inflexion labial larynx letters light lingual lips look lord marked mind modulation monophthong motion motley fool mouth nature never night notation nounced o'er P. J. Bailey passion pause phatic pitch poor predicate principle pronounced pronunciation reading rising Scotch sense sentence separate Shakespeare smile soft palate sorrow soul speak speaker spirit syllables tears tence thee thine things thou thought tion tones tongue unaccented unemphatic utterance verb Visible Speech vocal voice vowel sound W. E. Aytoun weep wind words wretched