The Orator's Manual: A Practical and Philosophical Treatise on Vocal Culture, Emphasis and Gesture, Together with Selections for Declamation and Reading : Designed as a Text-book for Schools and Colleges, and for Public Speakers and Readers who are Obliged to Study Without an Instructor |
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... meanings , motives and feelings . He will be a master and not a slave of the rules that he follows . 4. Once more : any number of rules all of which must be applied with as little forethought as in speaking , must be few ; otherwise the ...
... meanings , motives and feelings . He will be a master and not a slave of the rules that he follows . 4. Once more : any number of rules all of which must be applied with as little forethought as in speaking , must be few ; otherwise the ...
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... meaning of the different gestures ( §§ 172-175 ) each of which he should also be shown exactly how to make . 8. It is after this preliminary work that we come to our first real difficulty . In teaching any branch that partakes of the ...
... meaning of the different gestures ( §§ 172-175 ) each of which he should also be shown exactly how to make . 8. It is after this preliminary work that we come to our first real difficulty . In teaching any branch that partakes of the ...
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... Meaning of Marks § 202 ; Directions , Preliminary Exercise in Declama- tion , § 209 - 151 VEHEMENT , VIGOROUS AND APPELLATORY SELECTIONS . Assertive , Positive Style : Mainly Downward Inflections , § 211 . * Reply to Mr. Flood Reply to ...
... Meaning of Marks § 202 ; Directions , Preliminary Exercise in Declama- tion , § 209 - 151 VEHEMENT , VIGOROUS AND APPELLATORY SELECTIONS . Assertive , Positive Style : Mainly Downward Inflections , § 211 . * Reply to Mr. Flood Reply to ...
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... meaning than other words do ; often as in themselves conveying the specific meaning that characterizes a whole passage . A man , e . g . , may remark : " In that case , I shall walk to Boston . " Four persons , hearing him , may exclaim ...
... meaning than other words do ; often as in themselves conveying the specific meaning that characterizes a whole passage . A man , e . g . , may remark : " In that case , I shall walk to Boston . " Four persons , hearing him , may exclaim ...
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... meaning or impor- tance that it conveys . Pitch . When , either abruptly , as in the emphatic slides , or gradually ... meanings ( §§ 53-66 ) . Force . When one uses different degrees and kinds of force with a word , he does so because ...
... meaning or impor- tance that it conveys . Pitch . When , either abruptly , as in the emphatic slides , or gradually ... meanings ( §§ 53-66 ) . Force . When one uses different degrees and kinds of force with a word , he does so because ...
Common terms and phrases
arms Arnold von Winkelried aspirate banquet song blood brave breast breath Cæsar circumflex conditional mood cried death downward earth elbow emphasis emphatic express expulsive falling inflection father feel Finger gesture fingers force gentlemen gesture give glory grave Greece h RC hand hear heart heaven helmet of Navarre Henry of Navarre honor idem idem idem imperative mood Ireland Itály liberty light lips Lochinvar look Lord loud median stress medium pitch melody mouth move movement nation Netherby never noble o'er orotund pass pause position principle Roman Rússia Semitonic sentence side slow smile soft sound Spartacus spirit stood sustained syllables tell terminal stress thee thou thought tion tone uttered voice vowel waist wave words wrist Ꭱ Ꮎ Ꭱ Ꮯ
Popular passages
Page 286 - And heard, with voice as trumpet loud, Bozzaris cheer his band: "Strike — till the last armed foe expires; Strike — for your altars and your fires ; Strike — for the green graves of your sires, God, and your native land...
Page 309 - To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language ; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware.
Page 87 - 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...
Page 30 - What think ye of Christ? whose son is he? They say unto him, The son of David. He saith unto them, How then doth David in Spirit call him Lord, saying, The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool? If David then call him Lord, how is he his son...
Page 247 - ... twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure.
Page 283 - THE WRECK OF THE HESPERUS. IT was the schooner Hesperus, That sailed the wintry sea ; And the skipper had taken his little daughter, To bear him company.
Page 56 - They are like unto children sitting in the market-place, and calling one to another, and saying, "We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced ; we have mourned to you, and ye have not wept.
Page 292 - But the Consul's brow was sad, And the Consul's speech was low, And darkly looked he at the wall, And darkly at the foe: "Their van will be upon us Before the bridge goes down; And if they once may win the bridge, What hope to save the town?
Page 30 - Faithful are the wounds of a friend ; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
Page 306 - Arve and Arveiron at thy base Rave ceaselessly; but thou, most awful form! Risest from forth thy silent sea of pines, How silently! Around thee and above, Deep is the air and dark, substantial, black, An ebon mass ; methinks thou piercest it, As with a wedge ! But when I look again, It is thine own calm home, thy crystal shrine, Thy habitation from eternity ! 0 dread and silent mount ! I gazed upon thee, Till thou, still present to the bodily sense, Didst vanish from my thought: entranced in prayer....