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... upon his wasted brow the breath of the eternal morning . Take also this speech of Brutus : Romans , countrymen , and lovers ! hear me for my cause ; and be si- lent , that you may hear : believe me for 48 RHETORIC OF VOCAL EXPRESSION .
... upon his wasted brow the breath of the eternal morning . Take also this speech of Brutus : Romans , countrymen , and lovers ! hear me for my cause ; and be si- lent , that you may hear : believe me for 48 RHETORIC OF VOCAL EXPRESSION .
Page 78
... breath of the summer's sun breathes upon it , melts , and divides into drops , each of which reflects an image of the sun , so life , in the smile of God's love , divides itself into separate forms , each bearing in it , and reflecting ...
... breath of the summer's sun breathes upon it , melts , and divides into drops , each of which reflects an image of the sun , so life , in the smile of God's love , divides itself into separate forms , each bearing in it , and reflecting ...
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... breath with your mouth , and it will discourse most eloquent music . Look you , these are the stops . Guild . But these cannot I command to any utterance of harmony ; I have not the skill . Ham . Why , look you now , how unworthy a ...
... breath with your mouth , and it will discourse most eloquent music . Look you , these are the stops . Guild . But these cannot I command to any utterance of harmony ; I have not the skill . Ham . Why , look you now , how unworthy a ...
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... breath , ges- ticulation , facial expression , -in short , the whole pantomimic manifestation of the mind's attitude and action , have very much to do with the distinctive qual- ities of the voice . Practically , we never study tone ...
... breath , ges- ticulation , facial expression , -in short , the whole pantomimic manifestation of the mind's attitude and action , have very much to do with the distinctive qual- ities of the voice . Practically , we never study tone ...
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... breath and uninterrupted by false mus- cular contraction . The " pure tone " is more objective in its effect than is any other quality ; that is , it transmits thought with the least suggestion of the personality of the speaker . It ...
... breath and uninterrupted by false mus- cular contraction . The " pure tone " is more objective in its effect than is any other quality ; that is , it transmits thought with the least suggestion of the personality of the speaker . It ...
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abruptness accented action amphibrach analysis anapestic appoggiatura assertion attitude bearing breath Brutus Bunker Hill Monument business waiting Cæs cæsura CHAPTER chest circumflex clause condition connection dactylic deliberative diaphragm discrimination effect element emotional energy especially euphony example expansion expressional falling slide feeling force gesture give gliding hand hath heaven heigh-ho iambic ically impulse inflection insistent intensity interpretation intervals Julius Cæsar lines listener logical Lord measure melody ment mental mind moods of utterance movement muscles N. P. Willis natural ness noble object pantomimic paraphrase passages pause phrase poetry practical properties prose rhythms purpose reader reason relations reveal rhetorical scansion Scene Scrooge sense sentence significance simply singing soul sound speak speaker speech spondaic stress student subjective suggest syllables thee thing thou thought tion tone trochaic unaccented unto usually verse vocal expression voice volitional vowels whole words
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Page 326 - I SPRANG to the stirrup, and Joris, and he ; I galloped, Dirck galloped, we galloped all three ; " Good speed ! " cried the watch, as the gatebolts undrew ; "Speed...
Page 34 - With a bare bodkin; who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all...
Page 233 - Would he were fatter ; but I fear him not : Yet if my name were liable to fear, I do not know the man I should avoid So soon as that spare Cassius. He reads much ; He is a great observer, and he looks Quite through the deeds of men...
Page 44 - Romans, countrymen, and lovers! hear me for my cause ; and be silent that you may hear : believe me for mine honour; and have respect to mine honour, that you may believe: 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.
Page 130 - I have of late , (but wherefore I know not) lost all my mirth, foregone all custom of exercises; and, indeed, it goes so heavily with my disposition, that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy , the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appeareth nothing to me, but a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
Page 213 - PRAISE ye the LORD: For it is good to sing praises unto our God; For it is pleasant; and praise is comely.
Page 126 - Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me! You would play upon me; you would seem to know my stops; you would pluck out the heart of my mystery; you would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass; and there is much music, excellent 76 voice, in this little organ, yet cannot you make it speak.
Page 198 - O, you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome, Knew you not Pompey ? "Many a time and oft Have you climb'd up to walls and battlements, To towers and windows, yea, to chimney-tops, Your infants in your arms, and there have sat The livelong day, with patient expectation, To see great Pompey pass the streets of Rome...
Page 83 - It must exist in the man, in the subject, and in the occasion. Affected passion, intense expression, the pomp of declamation, all may aspire after it ; they cannot reach it.
Page 183 - There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin. 4 For mine iniquities are gone over mine head : as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.