Orthophony: Or, The Cultivation of the Voice in Elocution. A Manual of Elementary Exercises, Adapted to Dr. Rush's "Philosophy of the Human Voice", and the System of Vocal Culture Introduced by Mr. James E. Murdoch. Designed as an Introduction to Russell's "American Elocutionist". With a Supplement on Purity of Tone, by G. J. Webb ... |
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... feeling , and an augmented activity of mind . To persons whose habits are studious and sedentary , and especially to females , the vigoro is exercise of the organs of respiration and of voice , is , in very point of view , an invaluable ...
... feeling , and an augmented activity of mind . To persons whose habits are studious and sedentary , and especially to females , the vigoro is exercise of the organs of respiration and of voice , is , in very point of view , an invaluable ...
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... feeling , and , consequently , with a clear state of thought , utters his ideas distinctly and impressively , without special study . But defective organization , neglected habit , false tendencies of feeling , and confused conceptions ...
... feeling , and , consequently , with a clear state of thought , utters his ideas distinctly and impressively , without special study . But defective organization , neglected habit , false tendencies of feeling , and confused conceptions ...
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... feeling of a reader or speaker , and , at the same time , to recognize the " quality , " - as it is termed , — of his voice . -- WHISPERING . The progressive discipline of the organs , for the purposes of utter- ance , comprises the ...
... feeling of a reader or speaker , and , at the same time , to recognize the " quality , " - as it is termed , — of his voice . -- WHISPERING . The progressive discipline of the organs , for the purposes of utter- ance , comprises the ...
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... feeling most ; And silent , as we stand in thoughts too deep : - All heaven and earth are still : From the high host Of stars to the lulled lake , and mountain coast , All is concentrated in a life intense , Where not a beain , nor air ...
... feeling most ; And silent , as we stand in thoughts too deep : - All heaven and earth are still : From the high host Of stars to the lulled lake , and mountain coast , All is concentrated in a life intense , Where not a beain , nor air ...
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... feelings of the heart , when the mechanical processes of spelling and syllabication com- mence , and the voice becomes adapted to the routine of reading , as commonly taught at school . - Judicious culture might evidently pre- serve ...
... feelings of the heart , when the mechanical processes of spelling and syllabication com- mence , and the voice becomes adapted to the routine of reading , as commonly taught at school . - Judicious culture might evidently pre- serve ...
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accent action appropriate articulation Aspirated pectoral quality aspirated quality BOOK OF PSALMS breath cadence character chest CORIOLANUS deep degree designation diatonic diphthong distinct downward slide earth effect Effusive orotund element elocution emotion emphasis enunciation error exercises explosive expression Expulsive orotund fault feeling force forcible gentle glottis grave guttural habit heart heaven High pitch horror human voice Impassioned impressive language larynx light Lord Low pitch Median stress melody metre Middle pitch Moderate monotone mouth movement muscles musical scale natural notes o'er octave orotund quality orthophony passages passion pauses peculiar pharynx phrases practice prolonged prosodial pure tone purity of tone quantity radical stress reading render rhythm scale semitone sentence shout sion soft solemn soul speaking speech student style Subdued subtonic syllables termed thee thou tion tonic trachea unimpassioned upward vanishing stress verse vivid vocal organs vocal sound voice wave whispering words
Popular passages
Page 244 - Yet a few days, and thee The all-beholding sun shall see no more In all his course ; nor yet in the cold ground, Where thy pale form was laid with many tears, Nor in the embrace of ocean shall exist Thy image. Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim Thy growth, to be resolved to earth again...
Page 286 - Ah ! then and there was hurrying to and fro, And gathering tears, and tremblings of distress, And cheeks all pale, which, but an hour ago, Blushed at the praise of their own loveliness ; And there were sudden partings, such as press The life from out young hearts, and choking sighs Which ne'er might be repeated...
Page 284 - 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.
Page 87 - Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided : they were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions.
Page 257 - 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. Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable, and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come! It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry peace! peace!
Page 257 - Three millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us.
Page 262 - For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up. In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
Page 251 - Sisters, and their chaste-eyed Queen, Satyrs and Sylvan Boys, were seen, Peeping from forth their alleys green : Brown Exercise rejoiced to hear; And Sport leaped up, and seized his beechen spear.
Page 116 - It must be so — Plato, thou reasonest well ; Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought ? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? Tis the divinity that stirs within us ; 'Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man...
Page 265 - How like a fawning publican he looks ! I hate him for he is a Christian; But more for that in low simplicity He lends out money gratis, and brings down The rate of usance here with us in Venice. If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.