MANUAL OF ELOCUTION

FOUNDED UPON THE

PHILOSOPHY OF THE HUMAN VOICE.

WITH

Classified Illustrations.

SUGGESTED BY AND ARRANGED TO MEET THE PRACTICAL

DIFFICULTIES OF INSTRUCTION.

the reading of any long selection, until, by thorough study and diligent practice upon the shorter illustrations, each principle is clearly understood. The reading of a single poem might serve to develop the whole theory of elocution; the examples under each successive division may therefore be used, not only to secure a clear apprehension of the special point under consideration, but also to review the lessons previously explained and illustrated.

Great care has been taken to consult the authorized editions of the various writers here represented, that the extracts from their works may be relied upon as accurate; though, in some instances, preference bas been given to an early edition, when, in later issues, the alterations have not been deemed improvements. Many poems have been introduced which have never before found their way into any book of selections, some few being now for the first time published in this country.

The compiler cannot conceal the hope that this glimpse of our general literature may tempt to individual research among its treasures, so varied and inexhaustible; — that this text-book for the school-room may become not only teacher, but friend, to those in whose hands it is placed, and while aiding, through sys. tematic development and training of the elocutionary powers of the pupil, to overcome many of the practical difficulties of instruction, may accomplish a higher work in the cultivation and refinement of character.

PHILADELPHIA, June 4, 1867.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

PAGE

INTRODUCTIO

MOVEMENTS...

BREATHINGS..

ARTICULATION

VOWELS, SUB-VOWELS, &c............

1 TABLE OF ELEMENTS........

EXERCISES.........

CONCRETE AND DISCRETE SOUNDS

RADICAL AND VANISHING MOVEMENTS....

VOWEL SOUNDS: MONOTHONGS, &c...

DEFECTS IN ARTICULATION .

PRONUNCIATION.

ORTHOËPY....

PHONETIC ANALYSIS OF WORDS...............

SYLLABICATION .......

MONOSYLLABLES, DISSYLLABLES, &c........

7 QUANTITY.............

IMMUTABLE, MUTABLE, AND INDEFINITE SYLLABLES.

*). - ACCENT .......

PRIMARY AND SECONDARY ACCENT......

EMPHASIS.

ABSOLUTE AND ANTITHETIC EMPHASIS

ILLUSTRATIONS.- Absolute Emphasis. Robertson, Ruskin, Mrs. Child,

Whittier, Kingsley, Carlyie..........

ILLUSTRATIONS. - Antithetic Emphasis. Robertsm, Thomas à Kem-

pis, Shakespeare, Landor, Emerson, Carlyle, Miss Greenwell, Ware,

Miss Procter, Giles....

15!... REMARKS ON DISTINCT ENUNCIATION .......

SELECTIONS......

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PITCH

MODULATION .......

Pitch, TONES, &c ...

C T SCALE, INTERVAL, &c. ........

NATURAL OR DIATONIC SCALE....

777 RADICAL, CONCRETE AND DISCRETE

MELODY OF SPEECH...

INTONATION ......

LONG QUANTITY....

ILLUSTRATIONS. — Carlyle, Richter, Giles, Campbell, Percival, Holmes,

Miss Greenwell, Mrs. Browning ....

MELODY OF SPEECH, CONTINUED...

DIATONIC MELODY .......

ILLUSTRATIONS. — De Quincey, Mrs. Browning, Margaret Fuller Os-

soli, Shelley, Goldsmith, Tennyson..............

SEMITONIC MELODY ......

ILLUSTRATIONS. — Shakespeare, Tennyson, Randolph, Coleridge, Mrs.

Browning ..................

M ONOTONE........ .............................. ........................
ILLUSTRATIONS.- Keats, Coleridge, Shakespeare, Poe, Schiller, De Vere,

Mrs. Howell, Tennyson.........

SELECTIONS. - DIATONIC MELODY.....

SEMITONIC MBLODY ........

ΜΟΝΟΤΟΝΕ..

go

PITCH, CONTINUED..........

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DEGREES OF PITCH .......

EXAMPLES. — Bryant, Mrs. Hemans, Byron, Cranch, Ternyson, Cole-

ridge, Wolfe, Shakespeare, Campbell, Byron.......

ILLUSTRATIONS. — High Pitch. Shakespeare, Arnold, Spenser, Ten-

nyson .........
ILLUSTRATIONS.- Medium Pitch. Mrs. Browning, Miss Procter, Rob-

ertson, Brooke, Tennyson....
ILLUSTRATIONS.- Low Pitch. Shakespeare, Shelley, Byron, Bryant,

Lowell, Miss Greenwell, Burns.....

MODULATION, CONTINUED........

QUALITIES OF TONE

PURE TONE.

EXAMPLES.- Whipple, Richter, Mrs. Child, Martineau, Emerson....

OROTUND QUALITY.

EFFUSIVE OROTUND.

EXAMPLES. — Schiller, Coventry Patmore, Pope, Whittier, Mrs. Brown-

ing, Mrs. Southeý.......

EXPULSIVE OROTUND.

EXAMPLES.- Webster, Patrick Henry, Sheridan Knowles, Mrs.Browning 97

EXPLOSIVE OROTUND.

EXAMPLES. – Byron, Shakespeare, Scott, Moore, Halleck ................

ASPIRATION .........

101

EXAMPLES. — Tennyson, Byron, Shakespeare....

GUTTURAL QUALITY.....

102

EXAMPLES. - Shakespeare, Milton, Croly .......

103

FALSETTO.

EXAMPLES. — Shakespeare, Longfellow..................

TREMOR.....

...... 106

EXAMPLES.— Tennyson, Mrs. Browning, Keats, Milton, Mrs. Barbauld 106

CHARACTERISTICS OF TONES ......

ERRORS IN MODULATION.

........................ 108

SELECTIONS. - POETICAL ILLUSTRATIONS OF PURE TONE .........

113

PROSE ILLUSTRATIONS OF EFFUSIVE OROTUND..

POETICAL ILLUSTRATIONS OF OROTUND QUALITY.......

122

ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE DIFFERENT QUALITIES OF TONE..

133

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108

116

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181

182

INFLECTIONS..........

175

RISING, FALLING, CIRCUMFLEX OR WAVE.....

...... 175

RISING OCTAVE...

EXAMPLES. - Sheridan, Bulwer, Taylor, Shakespeare..

176

RISING FIFTH ........

177

EXAMPLES. - Scott, Patrick Henry, Tennyson, Owen Meredith 177

RISING THIRD.....

179

EXAMPLES. — Coleridge, Leigh Hunt, Spenser...............

179

DOWNWARD OCTAVE..

EXAMPLES. — Knowles, akespeare, Croly .......

181

DOWNWARD FIFTH..........

182

EXAMPLES. — Shakespeare, Addison, Tennyson........

DOWNWARD THIRD.......

183

EXAMPLES. — Milton, Kingsley, Emerson, Doddrüdge, Browning, Ten-

nyson, Longfellow............

183

INTERVAL OF THE SECOND

..... 186

EXAMPLES. – Reed, Ruskin, Hawthorne, Emerson, Robertson, Mill... 187

THE WAVE ....

188

EXAMPLES. — Franklin, Taylor, Knowles, Shelley, Milton .............

189

SELECTIONS.—THE WAVE. -HUMOKOUS ILLUSTRATION

..................... 191

INFLECTIONS, CONTINUED .

206

RULES for INFLECTIONS .....

206

EXAMPLES. — Landor, Bacon, Shakespeare, Milton, Robertson, Curtis,

Rush, Southey...

ILLUSTRATIONS.- Affirmative Sentences. Robertson, Shakespeare,

Clay, Bailey, L’Aimè Martin, Emerson, Whipple, Von Humboldt 208

ILLUSTRATIONS. — Negative Sentences. Robertson, Emerson, Thomas

à Kempis, Whipple, Locke, Owen Meredith..............

ILLUSTRATIONS. Interrogative Sentences beginning with a Pronoun

or Adverb. Bartol, Sir Wm. Jones, H. Bonar .....

211

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ILLUSTRATIONS. - Interrogative Sentences beginning with a Verb.

Whittier, Carlyle............

ILLUSTRATIONS.-Suspension of Sense. Emerson, Reed, De Quincey 212

ILLUSTRATIONS. – Parenthetical Phrases. Shakespeare, Tennyson,
ILLUSTRATIONS. - Contrasted Sentences. Shakespeare, Tennyson,

Emerson, Kingsley, Longfellow...

ILLUSTRATIONS.- Concessions. De Quincey, Mrs. Browning ............ 214

ILLUSTRATIONS. — Exclamatory Sentences. Dante, Browning, Miss

Greenwell, Campbell, Carlyle.. .......

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........ 215

ILLUSTRATIONS.— Exclamations in the Form of Interrogative Sen-

tences beginning with a Pronoun or Adverb. Browning, De

Quincey ... ..... .................................................................. 216

ILLUSTRATIONS. - Exclamations in the Form of Interrogative Sen-

tences beginning with a Verb. Miss Greenwell, Emerson. ........ 216

ILLUSTRATIONS. - Declarations in the form of Negative Sentences.

Robertson, Giles, Emerson, Tennyson, Miss Muloch.........

217

SERIES

.......................... 218

SIMPLE AND COMPOUND SERIES, SERIES OF SERIES...........

218

COMMENCING AND CONCLUDING SERIES ....

219

EXAMPLES. — Shakespeare, Martineau, Tennyson ..

219

ILLUSTRATIONS. — Commencing Series. Wirt, Hillard, Shakespeare,

Goldsmith ....

ILLUSTRATIONS.— Concluding Series. Shakespeare, Tennyson, Mont-

gomery, Ruskin...

221

CADENCE................

222

PARTIAL AND DISTINCT CADENCE

EXAMPLES. - Scott, Shakespeare, Massey, Taylor ......

ERRORS IN CADENCE ....................

ILLUSTRATIONS. - Partial and Distinct Cadence. Ruskin, Kingsley,

Carlyle, Sterling, Whittier, Faber, H. Coleridge, Wordsworth,

Bailey, Miss Greenwell, Mrs. Brmoning, Milnes, Miss Procter,

Miss Waring, Browning, Owen Meredith. .....

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FORCE

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EXERCISES - DEGREES OF FORCE.

ILLUSTRATIONS. — Loud Force. Shakespeare, Gray, Patrick Henry,

Croly.............

ILLUSTRATION8. — Moderate Force. Wordsworth, Tennyson, Thacke-

ray, Shakespeare, Stoddard, Robertson, Lowell ........

ILLUSTRATIONS. - Soft Force. Shakespeare, Shelley, Byron, Southey,

Millon, F. Tennyson, Prentice, Mrs. Browning, Aytoun, Kings-

ley, Keats, Tennyson, Spenser .......

*****................... 237

FORCE, CONTINUED ...........

VARIETIES OF STRESS

242

RADICAL STRESS ....

EXAMPLES. — Shakespeare, Ruskin, Webster, Lord Brougham, Milton 243

MEDIAN STRESS........

244

EXAMPLES. — Miss Greenwell, Mrs. Browning, Miss Ingelow

245

VANISHING STRESS ....

EXAMPLES. — Shakespeare, Webster, Otis ....... .................

247

COMPOUND STRESS.........

247

EXAMPLES. - Shakespeare, Whittier, Knowles .....

THOROUGH STRESS ..........

248

EX IMPLES. – Pitt, Shakespeare, Milton .........

248

SELECTIONS.— MEDIAN STRESS........

VARIETIES OF STRESS.......

263

242

246

248

251

PAUSES .....

GRAMMATICAL AND RHETORICAL PAUSES ..............

................... 295

RULES FOR PAUSES .........

......... 295

EXAMPLES. - Francis de Sales, Keats, Lowell, Mrs. Browning, Bailey,

Emerson, Hood, Shakespeare, Mill.

295

LENGTH OF PAUSES, &c...........

ILLUSTRATIONS. — Very Short Pauses. Scott, Browning, Byron ......... 298

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297