Orthophony, Or, The Cultivation of the Voice in Elocution: A Manual of Elementary Exercises Adapted to Dr. Rush's "Philosophy of the Human Voice" and the System of Vocal Culture Introduced by Mr. James Murdoch : Designed as an Introduction to Russell's "American Elocutionist" |
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... natural accompaniment to speech , or in the practice of attitude and action combined , in the most vivid style of lyric and dramatic recitation , so as to attain a per- fect control over the whole corporeal frame , for the purposes of ...
... natural accompaniment to speech , or in the practice of attitude and action combined , in the most vivid style of lyric and dramatic recitation , so as to attain a per- fect control over the whole corporeal frame , for the purposes of ...
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... naturally perfect in the function of articulation . With most persons , and especially in youth , the negligence of unguarded habit impairs the distinctness and clearness of oral expression . The comparatively inactive life of the ...
... naturally perfect in the function of articulation . With most persons , and especially in youth , the negligence of unguarded habit impairs the distinctness and clearness of oral expression . The comparatively inactive life of the ...
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... naturally violent emotion , when it is kept down by some overawing restraint . Whispering , therefore , as a discipline of the organs of voice , car- ries on , to a greater extent , and with more special effect , all the bene- ficial ...
... naturally violent emotion , when it is kept down by some overawing restraint . Whispering , therefore , as a discipline of the organs of voice , car- ries on , to a greater extent , and with more special effect , all the bene- ficial ...
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... naturally , in their habit of utterance , a round , sweet , and clear tone . The fact continues thus , with every child , in the earliest stage of life . It ceases , when the voice ceases to utter the feelings of the heart , - when the ...
... naturally , in their habit of utterance , a round , sweet , and clear tone . The fact continues thus , with every child , in the earliest stage of life . It ceases , when the voice ceases to utter the feelings of the heart , - when the ...
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... natural depth and fulness . Without these last - mentioned properties , no voice can ever sound earnest or sincere in utterance . Hence we observe " oral " tone always ascribed to the languid beauty or the trifling fop . The full ...
... natural depth and fulness . Without these last - mentioned properties , no voice can ever sound earnest or sincere in utterance . Hence we observe " oral " tone always ascribed to the languid beauty or the trifling fop . The full ...
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accent ah ah appropriate articulation Aspirated pectoral quality aspirated quality BOOK OF PSALMS breath cadence character chest CORIOLANUS deep degree designation diphthong distinct ditone downward slide earth effect Effusive orotund element elocution emotion emphasis enunciation error exercises explosive expression Expulsive orotund fault feeling force forcible gentle glottis grave guttural habit heart heaven High pitch horror human voice Impassioned impressive language larynx light Lord Low pitch Median stress melody Metre Middle pitch mode Moderate monotone mouth movement muscles musical scale natural notes o'er octave orotund quality orthophony passion pauses pharynx phrases practice prolonged prosodial pure tone purity of tone quantity radical stress reading render rhythm scale semitone sentence shout sion soft solemn soul speaking speech student style Subdued subtonic syllables termed thee thou tion tonic trachea unimpassioned upward slide utterance vanishing stress verse vivid vocal organs vocal sound voice wave whispering words
Popular passages
Page 257 - Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable — and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come. It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace — but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish ? What would they have ? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet,...
Page 198 - Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace ; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed ; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham ; who is the father of us all...
Page 136 - 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 116 - It must be so — Plato, thou reasonest well ; Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought ? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? Tis the divinity that stirs within us ; 'Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man...
Page 266 - If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility? revenge : If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example ? why, revenge. The villainy you teach me I will execute ; and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.
Page 284 - There is a just God, who presides over the destinies of nations ; and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone ; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.
Page 244 - Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim Thy growth, to be resolved to earth again; And, lost each human trace, surrendering up Thine individual being, shalt thou go To mix forever with the elements, To be a brother to the insensible rock And to the sluggish clod, which the rude swain Turns with his share, and treads upon.
Page 269 - Leaves have their time to fall, And flowers to wither at the north wind's breath, And stars to set, but all — Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death...
Page 275 - Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood! Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic, now known and honored throughout the earth, still full high advanced, its arms and trophies, streaming in their original lustre, not a stripe erased or polluted, nor a single star obscured, — bearing for its motto no such miserable interrogatory as 'What is all this worth?
Page 267 - Avaunt ! and quit my sight ! let the earth hide thee! Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold ; Thou hast no speculation in those eyes Which thou dost glare with ! Lady M.