"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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... Fear of Death 181 Corruption . Courage 122 Fidelity 127 122 Figurative Language * 160 Courteousness * 159 Flowers 160 Cowardice 105 Forgiveness 92 Crafty Advice 174 Forgiving Disposition * 161 Crafty Malignity 174 Fortitude 127 Critics ...
... Fear of Death 181 Corruption . Courage 122 Fidelity 127 122 Figurative Language * 160 Courteousness * 159 Flowers 160 Cowardice 105 Forgiveness 92 Crafty Advice 174 Forgiving Disposition * 161 Crafty Malignity 174 Fortitude 127 Critics ...
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... 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 the breathing which bashfulness and diffidence ...
... 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 the breathing which bashfulness and diffidence ...
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... fear that the delicate effect of h would otherwise be inaudible ; but the succeeding vowel makes it heard , and carries it dis- tinctly to the ears of the most distant auditors . Silent H. 125. In the following words and their ...
... fear that the delicate effect of h would otherwise be inaudible ; but the succeeding vowel makes it heard , and carries it dis- tinctly to the ears of the most distant auditors . Silent H. 125. In the following words and their ...
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... fear and veer , pain and bane , while , and wile , tale and dale , hues and use , call and gall , & c . These pairs of articulations have precisely the same oral formation , and differ only in the vocalized breath of the second , and ...
... fear and veer , pain and bane , while , and wile , tale and dale , hues and use , call and gall , & c . These pairs of articulations have precisely the same oral formation , and differ only in the vocalized breath of the second , and ...
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... fear or sadness , with similar inflexion , and the plaintive intervals may be satisfactorily practised even by the " ear " -less and unmusical student . Fire ! Fire ! Alas ! Ah ! Well - a - day ! Farewell ! Ah me ! IV . PREPARATORY ...
... fear or sadness , with similar inflexion , and the plaintive intervals may be satisfactorily practised even by the " ear " -less and unmusical student . Fire ! Fire ! Alas ! Ah ! Well - a - day ! Farewell ! Ah me ! IV . PREPARATORY ...
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accented syllable action adverbs antithesis articulation assertive body brave breath Brutus Cæsar Christian clause dead death denoted Diphthong doth earth effect Elocution emphasis emphatic exercise expressive fear feel fool force gesture give glottis grammatical grief hand happy hath heart heaven honour house of York idea imitative implied interrogative king labial larynx letters light lingual lips look marked mind mode modulation monophthong motion motley fool mouth nature never night notation noun o'er P. J. Bailey passion pauses phatic pitch poor predicate principle pronounced pronunciation rising sense sentence separate Shakespeare smile soft palate sorrow soul speak speaker spirit subordinate syllable 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
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Page 190 - Let's choose executors, and talk of wills : And yet not so, — for what can we bequeath, Save our deposed bodies to the ground ? Our lands, our lives, and all are Bolingbroke's, And nothing can we call our own, but death; And that small model of the barren earth, Which serves as paste and cover to our bones.
Page 180 - Let's dry our eyes: and thus far hear me, Cromwell; And, when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And sleep in dull cold marble, where no mention Of me more must be heard of, say, I taught thee...
Page 190 - All murder'd ; for within the hollow crown, That rounds the mortal temples of a king, Keeps Death his court, and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp...
Page 189 - It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes : 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest ; it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown ; His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings ; But mercy is above this sceptred sway, It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God's When mercy seasons justice.
Page 196 - In the corrupted currents of this world Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice; And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law...
Page 149 - Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him ; But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him ! But half of our heavy task was done When the clock struck the hour for retiring, And we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was sullenly firing.
Page 125 - He who ascends to mountain-tops, shall find The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds and snow ; He who surpasses or subdues mankind, Must look down on the hate of those below. Though high above the sun of glory glow, And far beneath the earth and ocean spread, Round him are icy rocks, and loudly blow Contending tempests on his naked head, And thus reward the toils which to those summits led.
Page 222 - 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 146 - By the struggling moonbeam's misty light And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet nor in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him.
Page 166 - Remember March, the ides of March remember : Did not great Julius bleed for justice sake ? What villain touch'd his body, that did stab, And not for justice ? What ! shall one of us, That struck the foremost man of all this world But for supporting robbers, shall we now...