King's College Lectures on Elocution: Or, The Physiology and Culture of Voice and Speech, and the Expression of the Emotions by Language, Countenance, and Gesture. To which is Added a Special Lecture on the Causes and Cure of Impediments of Speech ...Trübner, 1881 - 487 pages |
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... beauty , grace , and melody of which its form of construction is capable . And last , though not least , in the elements of my definition is the knowledge of the means by which all this may be done with personal ease , freedom , and ...
... beauty , grace , and melody of which its form of construction is capable . And last , though not least , in the elements of my definition is the knowledge of the means by which all this may be done with personal ease , freedom , and ...
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... beauty and grace to civilised life ; or they are arts which combine , in a high degree , the gratification of pure and refined taste , with the exercise of an enlightened intellect and an exalted imagination . " If this is a true ...
... beauty and grace to civilised life ; or they are arts which combine , in a high degree , the gratification of pure and refined taste , with the exercise of an enlightened intellect and an exalted imagination . " If this is a true ...
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... beauty , and that which contributes so largely to its force , and composes most of the graces that belong to it . The art of oratory is never so great and potent by the things that are said , as by the manner of saying them ; its ...
... beauty , and that which contributes so largely to its force , and composes most of the graces that belong to it . The art of oratory is never so great and potent by the things that are said , as by the manner of saying them ; its ...
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... beauty of the sound of the language . Again , I ask why ? Probably the answer will be , " Because Italian and Spanish abound in so many fine , rich , open vowels " -and , so far as it goes , the reason given in such answer is true ...
... beauty of the sound of the language . Again , I ask why ? Probably the answer will be , " Because Italian and Spanish abound in so many fine , rich , open vowels " -and , so far as it goes , the reason given in such answer is true ...
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... beauty and melody of sound in pronunciation . I give this challenge - Let any one hear a fine passage from Shakespeare , Milton , or Tennyson , for instance , read by an accom- plished and refined reader , well endowed with good natural ...
... beauty and melody of sound in pronunciation . I give this challenge - Let any one hear a fine passage from Shakespeare , Milton , or Tennyson , for instance , read by an accom- plished and refined reader , well endowed with good natural ...
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Page 258 - And let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them : for there be of them that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too, though in the mean time some necessary question of the play be then to be considered: that's villainous, and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that .uses it.
Page 203 - The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat, but in submission and slavery. Our chains are forged.
Page 183 - All this? ay, more: Fret, till your proud heart break ; Go, show your slaves how choleric you are, And make your bondmen tremble.
Page 182 - There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats ; For I am armed so strong in honesty That they pass by me as the idle wind, Which I respect not.
Page 201 - Julius bleed for justice' sake ? What villain touch'd his body, that did stab, And not for justice ? What, shall one of us, That struck the foremost man of all this world But for supporting robbers, shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes, And sell the mighty space of our large honours For so much trash as may be grasped thus ? — I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, Than such a Roman.
Page 123 - To hear the lark begin his flight And singing startle the dull night From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise; Then to come, in spite of sorrow, And at my window bid good-morrow Through the sweetbriar, or the vine, Or the twisted eglantine: While the cock with lively din Scatters the rear of darkness thin, And to the stack, or the barn-door, Stoutly struts his dames before: Oft listening how the hounds and horn Cheerly rouse the slumbering morn, From the side of some hoar...
Page 165 - 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 258 - O, there be players that I have seen play, and heard others praise, and that highly, not to speak it profanely, that, neither having the accent of Christians nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Page 175 - Seems, madam ! nay, it is ; I know not 'seems.' 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black...
Page 213 - I sprang to the stirrup, and Joris, and he ; I galloped, Dirck galloped, we galloped all three ; " Good speed ! " cried the watch, as the gate-bolts undrew;