Orthophony: Or, Vocal Culture in Elocution: A Manual of Elementary Exercises, Adapted to Dr. Rush's "Philosophy of the Human Voice," and Designed as an Introduction to Russell's "American Elocutionist." |
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... earth , mercy , & c . with a sound too rigidly close , like that of e in merit ; thus , " Airr , " " airth , " " maircy . " But culti- vated and correct pronunciation , while it avoids this pre- ciseness , draws a clear , though close ...
... earth , mercy , & c . with a sound too rigidly close , like that of e in merit ; thus , " Airr , " " airth , " " maircy . " But culti- vated and correct pronunciation , while it avoids this pre- ciseness , draws a clear , though close ...
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... Earth * Firm erst verse earl herb stern pearl girl servant perfectly 7. E , as in E - nd . The common error in the following class of words , is * The same element with e in err , though differently spelled . that of allowing the vowel ...
... Earth * Firm erst verse earl herb stern pearl girl servant perfectly 7. E , as in E - nd . The common error in the following class of words , is * The same element with e in err , though differently spelled . that of allowing the vowel ...
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... earth ! her step was light on thee . Thou wast struck dumb with amazement . Can no one be found faithful enough to warn him of his danger ? No one dared do it . A good deal of disturbance ensued . He gave him 60 VOCAL CULTURE .
... earth ! her step was light on thee . Thou wast struck dumb with amazement . Can no one be found faithful enough to warn him of his danger ? No one dared do it . A good deal of disturbance ensued . He gave him 60 VOCAL CULTURE .
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... earth are still , though not in sleep , But breathless , as we grow when feeling most ; And silent , as we stand in thoughts too deep : - All heaven and earth are still : From the high host Of stars to the lulled lake , and mountain ...
... earth are still , though not in sleep , But breathless , as we grow when feeling most ; And silent , as we stand in thoughts too deep : - All heaven and earth are still : From the high host Of stars to the lulled lake , and mountain ...
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... earth , even if it should be unusually prolonged . We shall leave behind us all which is now familiar and beloved ; and a world of other days and other men will be entirely ignorant that once we lived . But the same unalterable Being ...
... earth , even if it should be unusually prolonged . We shall leave behind us all which is now familiar and beloved ; and a world of other days and other men will be entirely ignorant that once we lived . But the same unalterable Being ...
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Page 111 - Shall one by one be gathered to thy side By those who in their turn shall follow them.
Page 124 - Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. Thou turnest man to destruction ; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.
Page 320 - twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street; On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the glowing Hours with flying feet.— But hark!
Page 210 - Your infants in your arms, and there have sat The live-long day, with patient expectation, To see great Pompey pass the streets of Rome...
Page 277 - mong Graemes of the Netherby clan ; Forsters, Fenwicks, and Musgraves, they rode and they ran : There was racing and chasing on Cannobie Lee, But the lost bride of Netherby ne'er did they see. So daring in love, and so dauntless in war, Have ye e'er heard of gallant like young Lochinvar?
Page 85 - Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world — with kings, The powerful of the earth — the wise, the good, Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre.
Page 327 - The hunter's call, to faun and dryad known ! The oak-crowned sisters, and their chaste-eyed queen, Satyrs and sylvan boys, were seen, Peeping from forth their alleys green : Brown Exercise rejoiced to hear ; And Sport leapt up, and seized his beechen spear.
Page 270 - He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress (Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers...
Page 328 - Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, Or loose the bands of Orion ? Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season ? Or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons...
Page 130 - He hath disgraced me and hindered me of half a million ; laughed at my losses, mocked at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated mine enemies! and what's his reason? I am a Jew ! Hath not a Jew eyes?