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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... passes on to be modi- fied or articulated into definite forms by the various por- tions of the mouth , and by the ... pass successfully to the compara- tively forcible and exact mode of using the organs , which distinguishes public ...
... passes on to be modi- fied or articulated into definite forms by the various por- tions of the mouth , and by the ... pass successfully to the compara- tively forcible and exact mode of using the organs , which distinguishes public ...
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... pâss , " the customary fault of dle States ; ― New England . - Add Band Mass Last Slant Dance had hand pass mast chant lance mad land grass past grant glance 4. E , as in E - ve . There is seldom any error made in the enunciation of ...
... pâss , " the customary fault of dle States ; ― New England . - Add Band Mass Last Slant Dance had hand pass mast chant lance mad land grass past grant glance 4. E , as in E - ve . There is seldom any error made in the enunciation of ...
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... pass prop piping papal 2. T , as in T - en - t . Tight Tall Top Mat Tatter Total taught tea tug let totter tented taunt took trust not tutor tightest 3. C , hard , and K , as in C - a - ke ; and Q , as in Q - ueen . Key Cane Queen Creak ...
... pass prop piping papal 2. T , as in T - en - t . Tight Tall Top Mat Tatter Total taught tea tug let totter tented taunt took trust not tutor tightest 3. C , hard , and K , as in C - a - ke ; and Q , as in Q - ueen . Key Cane Queen Creak ...
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... pass'd , bless'd , gloss'd , miss'd . Makes , quakes , likes , looks , streaks , rocks , crooks . Act , fact , respect , reject ; wak'd , lik'd , look'd , rock'd . Waft , oft , left , sift , quaff'd , scoff'd , laugh'd . Apt , wept ...
... pass'd , bless'd , gloss'd , miss'd . Makes , quakes , likes , looks , streaks , rocks , crooks . Act , fact , respect , reject ; wak'd , lik'd , look'd , rock'd . Waft , oft , left , sift , quaff'd , scoff'd , laugh'd . Apt , wept ...
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... pass , Grieving , if aught inanimate e'er grieves , - Over the unreturning brave , -alas ! Ere evening , to be trodden like the grass Which now beneath them , but above shall grow In its next verdure , when that fiery mass Of living ...
... pass , Grieving , if aught inanimate e'er grieves , - Over the unreturning brave , -alas ! Ere evening , to be trodden like the grass Which now beneath them , but above shall grow In its next verdure , when that fiery mass Of living ...
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accent appropriate articulation Aspirated pectoral aspirated quality breath cadence character Coriolanus deep degree diphthong distinct ditone downward slide earth effect Effusive orotund element elocution Elocutionist emotion emphasis enunciation epiglottis exer exercises explosive expression Expulsive orotund fault feeling force forcible gentle glottis grave guttural habit hath heart heaven High pitch horror human voice Impassioned impressive language larynx light Lord Low pitch Median stress melody ment Middle pitch mode moderate monotone mouth movement muscles musical scale natural o'er octave Pathos pauses Pectoral Quality phrases practice prolonged prosodial pure tone purity of tone quantity radical stress reading render rhythm scale semitone sentence sion solemn soul speaker speaking speech student style subdued Sublimity subtonic syllables Teacher in District termed thee thou thought tion tongue tonic trachea unimpassioned utterance vanishing stress verse vivid vocal organs vocal sound voice wave whispering words
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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?