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... less volume of sound , as loud or soft . Little need be said of the quality in this connection ; by constant practice and training much may be done to correct the unpleasant characteristics - to make a harsh voice smooth , and a rough ...
... less volume of sound , as loud or soft . Little need be said of the quality in this connection ; by constant practice and training much may be done to correct the unpleasant characteristics - to make a harsh voice smooth , and a rough ...
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... less personal , less direct utterance , it should be recited , and not declaimed ; the general rules of expression are , however , the same ; but the tone of the voice is more nearly akin to music than ordinary speech . Let the prosody ...
... less personal , less direct utterance , it should be recited , and not declaimed ; the general rules of expression are , however , the same ; but the tone of the voice is more nearly akin to music than ordinary speech . Let the prosody ...
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... less amiable for the absence of rhyme , which marked not his writings only , but those of all the classic poets . The classic language of Rome was coeval with Roman glory , which faded with the pollution of its vigorous and expressive ...
... less amiable for the absence of rhyme , which marked not his writings only , but those of all the classic poets . The classic language of Rome was coeval with Roman glory , which faded with the pollution of its vigorous and expressive ...
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... less readily than men - who , having exhausted the fabulous calendar of the skies , erected an altar to the unknown God - have given to a remote posterity the mutilated but beautiful memorials of a delu- sive worship for the uses of a ...
... less readily than men - who , having exhausted the fabulous calendar of the skies , erected an altar to the unknown God - have given to a remote posterity the mutilated but beautiful memorials of a delu- sive worship for the uses of a ...
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... less clear : and this is one reason also of that effect which the Scripture speaketh of , " That the king's heart is inscrutable ; " for multitude of jealousies , and lack of some predominant desire , that should marshal and put in ...
... less clear : and this is one reason also of that effect which the Scripture speaketh of , " That the king's heart is inscrutable ; " for multitude of jealousies , and lack of some predominant desire , that should marshal and put in ...
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Page 389 - WHEN Freedom from her mountain height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night. And set the stars of glory there. She mingled with its gorgeous dyes The milky baldric of the skies, And striped its pure celestial white With streakings of the morning light; Then from his mansion in the sun She called her eagle bearer down, And gave into his mighty hand The symbol of her chosen land.
Page 566 - And, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect mind. Methinks I should know you, and know this man, Yet I am doubtful, for I am mainly ignorant What place this is, and all the skill I have Remembers not these garments; nor I know not Where I did lodge last night. Do not laugh at me; For as I am a man I think this lady To be my child Cordelia.
Page 500 - Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, And after one hour more 'twill be eleven ; And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot ; And thereby hangs a tale.
Page 506 - How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank ! Here will we sit and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears : soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sit, Jessica. Look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold : There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins ; Such harmony is in immortal souls ; But whilst this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close it in,...
Page 348 - Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With blossomed furze unprofitably gay, There, in his noisy mansion, skilled to rule, The village master taught his little school. A man severe he was, and stern to view; I knew him well, and every truant knew; Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace The day's disasters in his morning face...
Page 60 - Methinks I see, in my mind, a noble and puissant nation rousing herself, like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: methinks I see her as an eagle muing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam...
Page 403 - Like leviathans afloat Lay their bulwarks on the brine, While the sign of battle flew On the lofty British line: It was ten of April morn by the chime : As they drifted on their path, There was silence deep as death, And the boldest held his breath For a time. But the might of England flushed To anticipate the scene, And her van the fleeter rushed O'er the deadly space between. —
Page 405 - Forward, the Light Brigade ! Charge for the guns ! " he said : Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. " Forward, the Light Brigade...
Page 271 - Then she runneth and cometh to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and saith unto them, They have taken away the Lord out of the sepulchre, and we know not where they have laid him.
Page 420 - And Ardennes waves above them her green leaves, Dewy with nature's tear-drops as they 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 this fiery mass Of living valour, rolling on the foe And burning with high hope shall moulder cold and low.