"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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... live or die , we are the Lord's ; we belong to his eternity , and henceforth his moral universe will be filled with our existence . NIGHT . - Blair . Night . sable goddess ! from her ebon throne . In rayless majesty , now stretches ...
... live or die , we are the Lord's ; we belong to his eternity , and henceforth his moral universe will be filled with our existence . NIGHT . - Blair . Night . sable goddess ! from her ebon throne . In rayless majesty , now stretches ...
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... live a coward in thine own esteem , - Letting I dare not ' wait upon ' I would , ' Like the poor cat i ' the adage ? " - Shakespeare . " Didst thou not think , such vengeance must await The wretch that , with his crimes all fresh about ...
... live a coward in thine own esteem , - Letting I dare not ' wait upon ' I would , ' Like the poor cat i ' the adage ? " - Shakespeare . " Didst thou not think , such vengeance must await The wretch that , with his crimes all fresh about ...
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... lives out , [ smiling , Lin that doom Finding a triumph , if denied a tomb ! — 4 Ay , with their ashes hath the wind been sown , e And with the wind | their spirit shall be spread , Filling man's heart with records of the dead . METHOD ...
... lives out , [ smiling , Lin that doom Finding a triumph , if denied a tomb ! — 4 Ay , with their ashes hath the wind been sown , e And with the wind | their spirit shall be spread , Filling man's heart with records of the dead . METHOD ...
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... live with ? Benevolence in great matters takes a higher name , and is the Queen of Virtue . 20. SELF - SATISFACTION . - Hare . Thorwaldsen being found by a friend one day somewhat out of spirits , was asked whether anything had occurred ...
... live with ? Benevolence in great matters takes a higher name , and is the Queen of Virtue . 20. SELF - SATISFACTION . - Hare . Thorwaldsen being found by a friend one day somewhat out of spirits , was asked whether anything had occurred ...
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... lives they have not found the most indignant feelings con- trollable , the fiercest blaze of passion repressible ? If this be the case- -and experience will generally attest that it is so- the plea of necessity falls to the ground : for ...
... lives they have not found the most indignant feelings con- trollable , the fiercest blaze of passion repressible ? If this be the case- -and experience will generally attest that it is so- the plea of necessity falls to the ground : for ...
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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