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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Page 60
... Heaven's first star alike ye see . Let it wave proudly o'er the good and brave , The supply lasts still . And gleaming and streaming and steaming and beaming , And rushing and flushing and brushing and gushing , And flapping and rapping ...
... Heaven's first star alike ye see . Let it wave proudly o'er the good and brave , The supply lasts still . And gleaming and streaming and steaming and beaming , And rushing and flushing and brushing and gushing , And flapping and rapping ...
Page 61
... heavens . Had he but heeded the counsel of his friend , he might have been saved . He came at last too late to be of any service . The magistrates stood on an elevated platform . - - It is a fact familiar in the experience of most ...
... heavens . Had he but heeded the counsel of his friend , he might have been saved . He came at last too late to be of any service . The magistrates stood on an elevated platform . - - It is a fact familiar in the experience of most ...
Page 66
... heaven and earth are still , - though not in sleep , But breathless , as we grow when feeling most ; And silent , as we stand in thoughts too deep : All heaven and earth are still : From the high host Of stars to the lulled lake , and ...
... heaven and earth are still , - though not in sleep , But breathless , as we grow when feeling most ; And silent , as we stand in thoughts too deep : All heaven and earth are still : From the high host Of stars to the lulled lake , and ...
Page 77
... heaven , that He may refine our nature from all its princi- ples of corruption , share with us His own immortality , admit us to His everlasting habitation , and crown us with His eternity . " 66 2. " Serious " Style . This form of ...
... heaven , that He may refine our nature from all its princi- ples of corruption , share with us His own immortality , admit us to His everlasting habitation , and crown us with His eternity . " 66 2. " Serious " Style . This form of ...
Page 86
... moon rising in her silent majesty , and leading up all the silver pomp of heaven . As I have gazed upon these quiet groves and shadowing lawns , silvered over and imperfectly lighted by streaks of dewy moonshine 86 VOCAL CULTURE .
... moon rising in her silent majesty , and leading up all the silver pomp of heaven . As I have gazed upon these quiet groves and shadowing lawns , silvered over and imperfectly lighted by streaks of dewy moonshine 86 VOCAL CULTURE .
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abrupt accent appropriate appulsive articulation Aspirated pectoral aspirated quality breath character chest Coriolanus deep degree diatonic diphthong distinct downward earth effect Effusive orotund element elocution emotion enunciation epiglottis error examples exer exercise explosive expression Expulsive orotund fault feeling force forcible function gentle give glottis grave guttural habit hath heart heaven horror human voice imparting Impassioned language larynx light lips Lord Low pitch Median stress melody ment mode of utterance moderate mouth movement muscles musical scale nasal natural o'er Pathos pauses Pectoral Quality perfect pitch practice prolonged prosodial pure tone purity of tone radical stress reader or speaker reading Rush semitone sentence shouting sion slide soft solemn soul speaking speech style subdued Sublimity subtonic swell syllables Teacher in District thee thou tion tongue tonic trachea tranquil unimpassioned vanishing stress vivid vocal organs vocal sound voice wave whispering words