A Manual of Elocution Founded Upon the Philosophy of the Human VoiceEldredge, 1869 - 396 páginas |
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... soul or animated principle of discourse . Elocution is the embodying form or representative power , depending upon exterior accomplishments and on the cul- tivation of the organs . Oratory is the complicated and vital exist- ence ...
... soul or animated principle of discourse . Elocution is the embodying form or representative power , depending upon exterior accomplishments and on the cul- tivation of the organs . Oratory is the complicated and vital exist- ence ...
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... soul with the powers of speech , may be played upon without study or practice ; he comes to it a mere uninstructed tyro , and thinks to manage all its stops , and command the whole compass of its varied and comprehensive power . He ...
... soul with the powers of speech , may be played upon without study or practice ; he comes to it a mere uninstructed tyro , and thinks to manage all its stops , and command the whole compass of its varied and comprehensive power . He ...
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... soul is exercise , not rest . Robertson . Emphasis may also be defined as the expressive , but occasional distinc- tion of a syllable , and thereby the whole word , or of several successive words , by one or more of the various forms ...
... soul is exercise , not rest . Robertson . Emphasis may also be defined as the expressive , but occasional distinc- tion of a syllable , and thereby the whole word , or of several successive words , by one or more of the various forms ...
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... soul intended by his Maker to develop himself in a new , fresh way . We are what we are ; we cannot be truly other than ourselves . We reach perfection not by copying , much less by aiming at originality ; but by consistently and ...
... soul intended by his Maker to develop himself in a new , fresh way . We are what we are ; we cannot be truly other than ourselves . We reach perfection not by copying , much less by aiming at originality ; but by consistently and ...
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... soul . Wouldst thou bring the world unto God ? Then live near to him thyself . If divine life pervade thine own soul , everything that touches thee will receive the electric spark , though thou mayest be unconscious of being charged ...
... soul . Wouldst thou bring the world unto God ? Then live near to him thyself . If divine life pervade thine own soul , everything that touches thee will receive the electric spark , though thou mayest be unconscious of being charged ...
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A Manual of Elocution Founded Upon the Philosophy of the Human Voice M. S. Mitchell Vista completa - 1880 |
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Página 63 - ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE MY heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk...
Página 117 - Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the...
Página 258 - Thou little Child, yet glorious in the might Of heaven-born freedom on thy being's height, Why with such earnest pains dost thou provoke The years to bring the inevitable yoke, Thus blindly with thy blessedness at strife? Full soon thy Soul shall have her earthly freight, And custom lie upon thee with a weight, Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life!
Página 335 - WHEN I consider how my light is spent, Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, And that one talent which is death to hide Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he returning chide, ' Doth God exact day-labor, light denied ?
Página 178 - They tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house? Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction?
Página 343 - The breezy call of incense-breathing morn, The swallow twittering from the straw-built shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care : No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke ; How jocund did they drive their team a-field...
Página 148 - Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee: I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain? I see thee yet, in form as palpable As this which now I draw. Thou marshall'st me the way that I was going; And such an instrument I was to use. Mine eyes are made the fools o...
Página 117 - If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the...
Página 160 - Hear the sledges with the bells — Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night! While the stars that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight...
Página 390 - Good friends, sweet friends, let me not stir you up To such a sudden flood of mutiny. They that have done this deed are honourable ; — What private griefs they have, alas, I know not, That made them do it ; — they are wise and honourable, And will, no doubt, with reasons answer you.