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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... feeling and expression , are mere lifeless sounds that will scarcely affect the understanding of the hearer in gene- ral , and most assuredly will never awaken a single passion or emotion in the soul . Indeed , I may well ask this ...
... feeling and expression , are mere lifeless sounds that will scarcely affect the understanding of the hearer in gene- ral , and most assuredly will never awaken a single passion or emotion in the soul . Indeed , I may well ask this ...
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... feel or recognise . Now , with regard to public reading , I cannot but think ( as I do of most things in life ) , if it be worth doing at all , it is worth doing well . " Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do , do it with thy might : " and ...
... feel or recognise . Now , with regard to public reading , I cannot but think ( as I do of most things in life ) , if it be worth doing at all , it is worth doing well . " Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do , do it with thy might : " and ...
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... feel as deeply , but whose talents are buried in comparative obscurity ? who think eloquently , who feel that it is within them to address eloquent thoughts to their fellow - men , but who can never say with Sheridan , It shall come out ...
... feel as deeply , but whose talents are buried in comparative obscurity ? who think eloquently , who feel that it is within them to address eloquent thoughts to their fellow - men , but who can never say with Sheridan , It shall come out ...
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... feel that the diaphragm has now descended to its lowest degrees , while the chest has , by the action of the various muscles I have before spoken of , become enlarged to its utmost capacity . It is just the same as regards the reverse ...
... feel that the diaphragm has now descended to its lowest degrees , while the chest has , by the action of the various muscles I have before spoken of , become enlarged to its utmost capacity . It is just the same as regards the reverse ...
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... feel by placing the finger on your own necks just at that spot , very firm and solid in structure , serving , in fact , as a substantial foundation for the parts above it . Above this you notice a very marked cartilage . This is termed ...
... feel by placing the finger on your own necks just at that spot , very firm and solid in structure , serving , in fact , as a substantial foundation for the parts above it . Above this you notice a very marked cartilage . This is termed ...
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Página 258 - And let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them : for there be of them that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too, though in the mean time some necessary question of the play be then to be considered: that's villainous, and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that .uses it.
Página 203 - The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat, but in submission and slavery. Our chains are forged.
Página 183 - All this? ay, more: Fret, till your proud heart break ; Go, show your slaves how choleric you are, And make your bondmen tremble.
Página 182 - 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 201 - 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 123 - To hear the lark begin his flight And singing startle the dull night From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise; Then to come, in spite of sorrow, And at my window bid good-morrow Through the sweetbriar, or the vine, Or the twisted eglantine: While the cock with lively din Scatters the rear of darkness thin, And to the stack, or the barn-door, Stoutly struts his dames before: Oft listening how the hounds and horn Cheerly rouse the slumbering morn, From the side of some hoar...
Página 165 - I have of late , (but wherefore I know not) lost all my mirth, foregone 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 fire, why, it appeareth nothing to me, but a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
Página 258 - O, there be players that I have seen play, and heard others praise, and that highly, not to speak it profanely, that, neither having the accent of Christians nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Página 175 - Seems, madam ! nay, it is ; I know not 'seems.' 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black...
Página 213 - I sprang to the stirrup, and Joris, and he ; I galloped, Dirck galloped, we galloped all three ; " Good speed ! " cried the watch, as the gate-bolts undrew;