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 páginas |
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... true Elocution really is , and have con- founded two things we are but too apt to confuse in our progress through life - viz . , abuse with use . This , then , is the outline of the course I propose taking this evening ; and to which ...
... true Elocution really is , and have con- founded two things we are but too apt to confuse in our progress through life - viz . , abuse with use . This , then , is the outline of the course I propose taking this evening ; and to which ...
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... true definition of the fine arts ( and none , I fancy , will ques- tion it ) , then I think that Elocution as shown , not in the elaborate and impassioned speech of the great statesman , advocate , or divine , but in a much humbler and ...
... true definition of the fine arts ( and none , I fancy , will ques- tion it ) , then I think that Elocution as shown , not in the elaborate and impassioned speech of the great statesman , advocate , or divine , but in a much humbler and ...
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... true expression , and feeling , we too often meet with instances in which the reading and speaking are charac terised by the absence of almost every requisite that should mark a good delivery . He himself had not seldom heard readers ...
... true expression , and feeling , we too often meet with instances in which the reading and speaking are charac terised by the absence of almost every requisite that should mark a good delivery . He himself had not seldom heard readers ...
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... true enough ; but it is not the whole reason . Observe a little more closely , and you will find as a rule , generally , that the Italian or the Spaniard forms the vowels purely and sonorously , dwells upon them properly , so that he ...
... true enough ; but it is not the whole reason . Observe a little more closely , and you will find as a rule , generally , that the Italian or the Spaniard forms the vowels purely and sonorously , dwells upon them properly , so that he ...
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... true elocutionary practice without the whole system gaining wonderfully in physical health and vigour . I might quote many high medical authorities in support of this assertion , but I will content myself with only citing one ; for it ...
... true elocutionary practice without the whole system gaining wonderfully in physical health and vigour . I might quote many high medical authorities in support of this assertion , but I will content myself with only citing one ; for it ...
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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 183 - All this? ay, more: Fret, till your proud heart break ; Go, show your slaves how choleric you are, And make your bondmen tremble.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 175 - Seems, madam ! nay, it is ; I know not 'seems.' 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black...
Página 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;