A system of elocution based upon grammatical analysisT. Laurie, 1869 - 432 pages |
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... not blunt even a single pas- sion which actuates humanity . It should intensify all the indigenous yearnings of the body and spirit of man , but at the same time purify and sentimentalise them . To those 6 A SYSTEM OF ELOCUTION .
... not blunt even a single pas- sion which actuates humanity . It should intensify all the indigenous yearnings of the body and spirit of man , but at the same time purify and sentimentalise them . To those 6 A SYSTEM OF ELOCUTION .
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... humanity the ten thousand thousand stops and chords of the human soul , in all its affinities with mortality and eternity , weakness , might , and mystery . The duty we have engaged to perform to the student is discharged if we have ...
... humanity the ten thousand thousand stops and chords of the human soul , in all its affinities with mortality and eternity , weakness , might , and mystery . The duty we have engaged to perform to the student is discharged if we have ...
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... human voice is susceptible to every note of the gamut . The attainment of it implies by far the most effective developing exercise of the organs of voice . Hence the RULE . Speak slowly and articulately , in the deepest tone which the ...
... human voice is susceptible to every note of the gamut . The attainment of it implies by far the most effective developing exercise of the organs of voice . Hence the RULE . Speak slowly and articulately , in the deepest tone which the ...
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... human voice is capable of producing about twenty - four different sounds , there are , strictly speaking , only seven essentially different sounds , as , by a peculiar law of acoustics , every eighth sound is a repetition of the first ...
... human voice is capable of producing about twenty - four different sounds , there are , strictly speaking , only seven essentially different sounds , as , by a peculiar law of acoustics , every eighth sound is a repetition of the first ...
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... human thought and the wide grasp of human sympathies - not a tax upon the mnemonic nor imitative faculties , but a culture and exercise of the ethical and aesthetical life of man . Read or speak , understanding rightly and sympathising ...
... human thought and the wide grasp of human sympathies - not a tax upon the mnemonic nor imitative faculties , but a culture and exercise of the ethical and aesthetical life of man . Read or speak , understanding rightly and sympathising ...
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Page 45 - How like a fawning publican he looks ! I hate him for he Is a Christian : But more, for that, in low simplicity, He lends out money gratis, and brings down The rate of usance here with us in Venice.
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Page 139 - Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore,— " Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou," I said, " art sure no craven, Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore: Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore !" Quoth the Raven,
Page 385 - Censure me in your wisdom, and awake your senses, that you may the better judge. If there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of Caesar's, to him I say that Brutus' love to Caesar was no less than his. If then that friend demand why Brutus rose against Caesar, this is my answer: not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.
Page 390 - If you have tears, prepare to shed them now. You all do know this mantle : I remember The first time ever Caesar put it on : 'Twas on a summer's evening, in his tent; That day he overcame the " Nervii: Look, in this place ran Cassius...
Page 348 - Thou know'st the mask of night is on my face, Else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek For that which thou hast heard me speak to-night. Fain would I dwell on form, fain, fain deny What I have spoke: but farewell compliment! Dost thou love me? I know thou wilt say 'Ay,' And I will take thy word: yet, if thou swear'st, Thou mayst prove false; at lovers' perjuries, They say, Jove laughs.
Page 386 - Who is here so base, that would be a bondman ? If any, speak ; for him have I offended. Who is here so rude, that would not be a Roman ? If any, speak ; for him have I offended.
Page 347 - The orchard walls are high, and hard to climb; And the place death, considering who thou art, If any of my kinsmen find thee here.
Page 51 - Forbear, my son," the Hermit cries, "To tempt the dangerous gloom; For yonder faithless phantom flies To lure thee to thy doom. "Here to the houseless child of want My door is open still; And though my portion is but scant, I give it with good will.
Page 45 - O curse of marriage, That we can call these delicate creatures ours, And not their appetites! I had rather be a toad, And live upon the vapour of a dungeon, Than keep a corner in the thing I love, For others