"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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... Knowledge and Wisdom 161 bition 180 Laughter 186 Exhortation to Courage 180 Laziness 130 Existence . Ex - Officio Endowments 126 Lear 150 • 126 Liberality * 93 Liberty Life 94 Remembered Love 195 131 Remembrance 86 Light X CONTENTS .
... Knowledge and Wisdom 161 bition 180 Laughter 186 Exhortation to Courage 180 Laziness 130 Existence . Ex - Officio Endowments 126 Lear 150 • 126 Liberality * 93 Liberty Life 94 Remembered Love 195 131 Remembrance 86 Light X CONTENTS .
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... Knowledge * 96 Murder 133 Self - Satisfaction 162 Music 190 Shuffling Refusal 200 Mutability of Love 191 Sickness 201 Mutual Dependence * 95 Signs of Love 135 Natural Freedom . 191 Slavery * 136 Night 95 Sorrow causing Forgetful ...
... Knowledge * 96 Murder 133 Self - Satisfaction 162 Music 190 Shuffling Refusal 200 Mutability of Love 191 Sickness 201 Mutual Dependence * 95 Signs of Love 135 Natural Freedom . 191 Slavery * 136 Night 95 Sorrow causing Forgetful ...
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... knowledge of this simple Principle involves at once a knowledge of more than half the rules for Inflexion with which Elocutionists have bewildered their students . The mind can grasp this principle and carry it along without effort ...
... knowledge of this simple Principle involves at once a knowledge of more than half the rules for Inflexion with which Elocutionists have bewildered their students . The mind can grasp this principle and carry it along without effort ...
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... knowledge through its blessed agency ; but the sphere or oratorical influence , though narrowed , is yet large , and within that sphere the value of an effective Delivery is as preponderating as it ever was . Oratory was of old a very ...
... knowledge through its blessed agency ; but the sphere or oratorical influence , though narrowed , is yet large , and within that sphere the value of an effective Delivery is as preponderating as it ever was . Oratory was of old a very ...
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... knowledge of the conventional meanings of words is of course also implied , but this may be obtained inde- pendently of Elocution , in the modern sense of the term . The student of Elocution , then , should be made acquainted with the ...
... knowledge of the conventional meanings of words is of course also implied , but this may be obtained inde- pendently of Elocution , in the modern sense of the term . The student of Elocution , then , should be made acquainted with the ...
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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