The Speaking Voice: Principles of Training Simplified and CondensedHarper & Brothers, 1908 - 217 pages |
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Adelaide Neilson Adoniram ain't audience barn beauty bird blithe Spirit breath Browning cavity change of pitch character cloud color damsel deep diaphragm Dramatic Lyrics Ellen Terry emotion exercise eyes Fair Lady father feel goin hath heart horse impersonation inflection instrument King kitchen-knave knave knight ladies gay Lancelot let the tone long'd look lyric lyric poetry Maurice Maeterlinck ment mind monologue mother mouth muscles Nanny nasal nasal cavity never nothin pause pebble and dropped phrase pitcher play poem poet poetry RICHARD HOVEY Rikki Tikki Tavi ROBERT BROWNING Sammy Sarah Penn sentence shame singing Sir Gareth smiled song soul speech spirit stood story sweet swift thee thine things thou thought thro throat tion to-day tone-color tongue took another pebble utter VANNA verse vocal interpretation vocal training vocal vocabulary voice WILLIAM BRIGHTY RANDS words
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Page 114 - What thou art, we know not ; What is most like thee ? From rainbow clouds there flow not Drops so bright to see, As from thy presence showers a rain of melody.
Page 123 - She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight; A lovely Apparition , sent To be a moment's ornament; Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair; Like Twilight's, too, her dusky hair; But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful Dawn ; A dancing Shape, an Image gay, To haunt, to startle, and waylay.
Page 143 - I thought the sparrow's note from heaven, Singing at dawn on the alder bough; I brought him home, in his nest, at even; He sings the song, but it cheers not now, For I did not bring home the river and sky; — He sang to my ear, — they sang to my eye.
Page 139 - GROW old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made: Our times are in his hand Who saith, "A whole I planned, Youth shows but half; trust God: see all, nor be afraid!
Page 209 - by design, for never read Strangers like you that pictured countenance, The depth and passion of its earnest glance, But to myself they turned (since none puts by The curtain I have drawn for you, but I...
Page 119 - Sweet air blow soft, mount larks aloft To give my Love good-morrow ! Wings from the wind to please her mind Notes from the lark I'll borrow ; Bird prune thy wing, nightingale sing, To give my Love good-morrow ; To give my Love good-morrow Notes from them both I'll borrow.
Page 117 - Yet if we could scorn Hate and pride and fear; If we were things born Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near. Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground ! Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know, Such harmonious madness From my lips would flow, The world should listen then — as I am listening now.
Page 140 - Then, welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand but go! Be our joys three-parts pain! Strive, and hold cheap the strain; Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge the throe!
Page 128 - Who gave you your invulnerable life, Your strength, your speed, your fury, and your joy, Unceasing thunder and eternal foam? And who commanded (and the silence came), Here let the billows stiffen, and have rest?
Page 96 - There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given him to till.