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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... Accent . 3. The shortening tendency of the Secondary Accent . 4. The shortening tendency of the past tense . 5. The power of w over the subsequent vowel . 6. The aspirated hissing of t , d , s , z , x , and soft c . 7. Faulty pro ...
... Accent . 3. The shortening tendency of the Secondary Accent . 4. The shortening tendency of the past tense . 5. The power of w over the subsequent vowel . 6. The aspirated hissing of t , d , s , z , x , and soft c . 7. Faulty pro ...
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... accented vowels where they should be sounded ; and the opposite error - The termination ed in the past tense and participle . 12. The termination el . 13 . The termination en . 14. The termination il , in . 15. The termination on . 16 ...
... accented vowels where they should be sounded ; and the opposite error - The termination ed in the past tense and participle . 12. The termination el . 13 . The termination en . 14. The termination il , in . 15. The termination on . 16 ...
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... accent and delivery will often touch hearts too dead to be reached by careless utterances and half - hearted monotony . " LECTURE II . The Study of the English Language , 22 KING'S COLLEGE LECTURES ON ELOCUTION . [ LECT . I.
... accent and delivery will often touch hearts too dead to be reached by careless utterances and half - hearted monotony . " LECTURE II . The Study of the English Language , 22 KING'S COLLEGE LECTURES ON ELOCUTION . [ LECT . I.
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... accent : if we desire a German tutor , we prefer one from Hanover : if a Spanish instructor , one from Castile : while , as regards Italian , its beau ideal is considered to be the " lingua Toscana in bocca Romana . " If all this ...
... accent : if we desire a German tutor , we prefer one from Hanover : if a Spanish instructor , one from Castile : while , as regards Italian , its beau ideal is considered to be the " lingua Toscana in bocca Romana . " If all this ...
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... accents full and clear , solemn in tone and emphatic in meaning , he makes every word of the inspired page fall not merely on the ear , but on the heart , there abiding , there awakening , there comforting . Surely , if there be such an ...
... accents full and clear , solemn in tone and emphatic in meaning , he makes every word of the inspired page fall not merely on the ear , but on the heart , there abiding , there awakening , there comforting . Surely , if there be such an ...
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Página 205 - There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone ; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.
Página 185 - All this? ay, more: Fret, till your proud heart break ; Go, show your slaves how choleric you are, And make your bondmen tremble.
Página 178 - All places that the eye of heaven visits, Are to a wise man ports and happy havens : Teach thy necessity to reason thus ; There is no virtue like necessity.
Página 184 - 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 203 - 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 258 - Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus ; but use all gently : for in the very torrent, tempest, and (as I may say) whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
Página 177 - Seems, madam ! nay, it is ; I know not 'seems.' 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black...
Página 167 - I have of late, — but wherefore I know not, — lost all my mirth, forgone 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 fare, — why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
Página 177 - It must be by his death: and, for my part, I know no personal cause to spurn at him, But for the general. He would be crown'd: How that might change his nature, there's the question: It is the bright day that brings forth the adder; And that craves wary walking.
Página 211 - Have we anything new to offer upon the subject? Nothing. We have held the subject up in every light of which it is capable ; but it has been all in vain.