The Art of Elocution: From the Simple Articulation of the Elemental Sounds of Language, Up to the Highest Tone of Expression in Speech, Attainable by the Human Voice |
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To Dr. Rush's Treatise on the Voice , the Author has had recourse for light on
many of the niceties of the elementary sounds of our language ; and gladly takes
this opportunity of offering his humble tribute to the masterly analysis of the voice
...
To Dr. Rush's Treatise on the Voice , the Author has had recourse for light on
many of the niceties of the elementary sounds of our language ; and gladly takes
this opportunity of offering his humble tribute to the masterly analysis of the voice
...
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We must , therefore , rely upon such lights as we have , and the assistance of
those who , well educated in other respects , make their own language their
particular study . The following are a few very common examples , ( which it is
absolutely ...
We must , therefore , rely upon such lights as we have , and the assistance of
those who , well educated in other respects , make their own language their
particular study . The following are a few very common examples , ( which it is
absolutely ...
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... excess of coloring to catch the attention It then “ prefers extravagance and rant
“ to justness a gross false wit to the engaging light of nature and the shewy rich
and glaring to the fine and amiable This is the childhood of taste but as the
human ...
... excess of coloring to catch the attention It then “ prefers extravagance and rant
“ to justness a gross false wit to the engaging light of nature and the shewy rich
and glaring to the fine and amiable This is the childhood of taste but as the
human ...
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... discover the charms of a graceful or noble deportment There is a fine but an
ineffectual " light “ in the breast of manAfter nightfall “ we have admired the planet
Venus ? the beauty and vivacity of her lustre the immense distance from which
we ...
... discover the charms of a graceful or noble deportment There is a fine but an
ineffectual " light “ in the breast of manAfter nightfall “ we have admired the planet
Venus ? the beauty and vivacity of her lustre the immense distance from which
we ...
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see the rest of mankind painfully struggling to comprehend obvious truths- glance
themselves through the most remote consequences like lightning through a path
that cannot be traced They see the beauties of nature with light and warmth ...
see the rest of mankind painfully struggling to comprehend obvious truths- glance
themselves through the most remote consequences like lightning through a path
that cannot be traced They see the beauties of nature with light and warmth ...
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Página 324 - I cannot tell what you and other men Think of this life, but, for my single self, I had as lief not be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself.
Página 300 - He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress...
Página 325 - Why should that name be sounded more than yours ? Write them together, yours is as fair a name; Sound them, it doth become the mouth as well; Weigh them, it is as heavy; conjure with 'em, "Brutus" will start a spirit as soon as "Caesar.
Página 291 - mong Graemes of the Netherby clan ; Forsters, Fenwicks, and Musgraves, they rode and they ran : There was racing and chasing on Cannobie Lee, But the lost bride of Netherby ne'er did they see. So daring in love, and so dauntless in war, Have ye e'er heard of gallant like young Lochinvar?
Página 339 - O, now you weep ; and, I perceive, you feel The dint of pity : these are gracious drops ; Kind souls ! What, weep you, when you but behold Our Caesar's vesture wounded ? Look you here. Here is himself, marr'd, as you see.
Página 326 - Signior Antonio, many a time and oft In the Rialto you have rated me About my monies, and my usances : Still have I borne it with a patient shrug ; For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe...
Página 175 - That which is now a horse, even with a thought The rack dislimns, and makes it indistinct, As water is in water.
Página 335 - O Cassius, you are yoked with a lamb That carries anger, as the flint bears fire; Who, much enforced, shows a hasty spark, And straight is cold again.
Página 353 - With a bare bodkin ? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of ? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all...
Página 352 - tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them ? To die : to sleep ; No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache, and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to ?—'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep...
Información bibliográfica
| Título | The Art of Elocution: From the Simple Articulation of the Elemental Sounds of Language, Up to the Highest Tone of Expression in Speech, Attainable by the Human Voice |
| Autor | George Vandenhoff |
| Edición | 3 |
| Editor | Sampson, Low, 1846 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Harvard |
| Digitalizado | 14 Nov. 2007 |
| Largo | 383 páginas |
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