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... speaker as moral rectitude is for a private citizen . Other things being equal , every person will have a power to please and persuade , influence and direct the minds of others , through the media of speech and music , measurable ...
... speaker as moral rectitude is for a private citizen . Other things being equal , every person will have a power to please and persuade , influence and direct the minds of others , through the media of speech and music , measurable ...
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... speaker , or a good singer never fails to attract the multitudes . The lower vocal cords are chiefly instrumental in the production of sound . If the upper cords are removed , voice continues , but is rendered feeble ; if the lower ...
... speaker , or a good singer never fails to attract the multitudes . The lower vocal cords are chiefly instrumental in the production of sound . If the upper cords are removed , voice continues , but is rendered feeble ; if the lower ...
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... ever becomes distinguished as a reader , speaker , or actor , Fig . 19 . Fig . 20 . CORRECT POSITION IN STUDY . MISPOSITION IN STUDY . although a majority of them have attained distinction as chronic PATHOLOGY OF THE VOICE . 29.
... ever becomes distinguished as a reader , speaker , or actor , Fig . 19 . Fig . 20 . CORRECT POSITION IN STUDY . MISPOSITION IN STUDY . although a majority of them have attained distinction as chronic PATHOLOGY OF THE VOICE . 29.
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... speakers . The habit of sleeping with the mouth open in early life , and especially in infancy , has a very injurious effect on the breathing and vocal organs ; and not only this , but it tends to distort the jaw - bones and deform the ...
... speakers . The habit of sleeping with the mouth open in early life , and especially in infancy , has a very injurious effect on the breathing and vocal organs ; and not only this , but it tends to distort the jaw - bones and deform the ...
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... speaker becomes hoarse with any prolonged vocal effort . The explosive voice , though harsh and loud , is never heard at a great distance . CHAPTER IV . THERAPEUTICS OF THE VOICE . PREMISING that 32 PATHOLOGY OF THE VOICE .
... speaker becomes hoarse with any prolonged vocal effort . The explosive voice , though harsh and loud , is never heard at a great distance . CHAPTER IV . THERAPEUTICS OF THE VOICE . PREMISING that 32 PATHOLOGY OF THE VOICE .
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The Human Voice: Its Anatomy, Physiology, Pathology, Therapeutics, and ... R. T. Trall No preview available - 2017 |
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Popular passages
Page 94 - In the silence of the night, How we shiver with affright At the melancholy menace of their tone! For every sound that floats From the rust within their throats Is a groan. And the people - ah, the people They that dwell up in the steeple...
Page 92 - HEAR the sledges with the bells— Silver bells ! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night ! While the stars that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight...
Page 94 - All alone, And who tolling, tolling, tolling, In that muffled monotone, Feel a glory in so rolling On the human heart a stone They are neither man nor woman They are neither brute nor human They are Ghouls: And their king it is who tolls; And he rolls, rolls, rolls, Rolls A paean from the bells!
Page 96 - Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of good.
Page 59 - Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. Eternity ! thou pleasing, dreadful thought ! Through what variety of untried being, Through what new scenes and changes must we pass ! The wide, the unbounded prospect lies before me ; But shadows, clouds, and darkness rest upon it.
Page 91 - thing of evil — prophet still, if bird or devil! By that Heaven that bends above us, by that God we both adore, Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn, It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore...
Page 88 - Let me see, then, what thereat is, and this mystery explore, — Let my heart be still a moment, and this mystery explore : 'Tis the wind, and nothing more.
Page 91 - Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend! " I shrieked, upstarting' "Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's Plutonian shore ! Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken ! Leave my loneliness unbroken! quit the bust above my door! Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
Page 72 - Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild...
Page 87 - This it is and nothing more." Presently my soul grew stronger; hesitating then no longer, "Sir," said I, "or Madam, truly your forgiveness I implore; But the fact is I was napping; and so gently you came rapping, And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door, That I scarce was sure I heard you.