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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... speaker ; and I have known on the other hand a man , who for excellent and well - arranged thoughts , fluency of language , and free- dom and animation in delivery , would well deserve to be called an unusually good extempore speaker ...
... speaker ; and I have known on the other hand a man , who for excellent and well - arranged thoughts , fluency of language , and free- dom and animation in delivery , would well deserve to be called an unusually good extempore speaker ...
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... speaker breathes , as it were , his own life into the souls of his hearers . language is only an imperfect and mummy - like embalming , of which the highest use is that it may serve as a means of reproducing the living utterance . " And ...
... speaker breathes , as it were , his own life into the souls of his hearers . language is only an imperfect and mummy - like embalming , of which the highest use is that it may serve as a means of reproducing the living utterance . " And ...
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... speaker or reader , or , in other words , the science and art of Elocution . Let me endeavour to show you why Elocution should form a part of our education - not only as regards the effects to be pro- duced on others , when we read or ...
... speaker or reader , or , in other words , the science and art of Elocution . Let me endeavour to show you why Elocution should form a part of our education - not only as regards the effects to be pro- duced on others , when we read or ...
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... speaker or reader , when he is made acquainted with the physiology and proper use of the respiratory , vocal , and speech organs in their due co - ordination of action . This , then , is my ideal of Elocution ; a high one , I confess ...
... speaker or reader , when he is made acquainted with the physiology and proper use of the respiratory , vocal , and speech organs in their due co - ordination of action . This , then , is my ideal of Elocution ; a high one , I confess ...
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... speaker who is agreeable and one who is disagreeable ; between one who is powerful and another who is feeble . Nor can any one entertain a doubt whether the difference is not just as obvious in the pulpit as in the senate , forum , or ...
... speaker who is agreeable and one who is disagreeable ; between one who is powerful and another who is feeble . Nor can any one entertain a doubt whether the difference is not just as obvious in the pulpit as in the senate , forum , or ...
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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.