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 Seiten |
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accent acquired action actors articulation attention audience beauty breath bronchus called cartilage chest Church circumflex clause consonants convey cricoid cartilage cultivated David Garrick delivered delivery Demosthenes diaphragm effect Elocution emotions emphasis endeavour English epiglottis exercise expression eyes falling inflection falsetto feel give glottis habit hear heard hearers honour human voice important inflections King's College language laryngoscope larynx Lecture Lennox Browne letter lips lungs manner means mind mode modulation mouth muscles musical scale nature nostrils notes observe orator organs passage passions pause persons physiologist pitch poise preacher principles produced pronounced pronunciation proper public reading public speaking pulpit pupil reader reading aloud reading and speaking regard remarks respiration ribs rising rule sense sentence sermon singing song sound speaker stammering syllable thee thou thought throat tion tone tongue trachea utterance various vibrations vocal cords vowels words
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 205 - 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.
Seite 185 - All this? ay, more: Fret, till your proud heart break ; Go, show your slaves how choleric you are, And make your bondmen tremble.
Seite 178 - All places that the eye of heaven visits, Are to a wise man ports and happy havens : Teach thy necessity to reason thus ; There is no virtue like necessity.
Seite 184 - 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.
Seite 203 - 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.
Seite 258 - Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus ; but use all gently : for in the very torrent, tempest, and (as I may say) whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
Seite 177 - Seems, madam ! nay, it is ; I know not 'seems.' 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black...
Seite 167 - I have of late, — but wherefore I know not, — lost all my mirth, forgone 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 fare, — why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
Seite 177 - It must be by his death: and, for my part, I know no personal cause to spurn at him, But for the general. He would be crown'd: How that might change his nature, there's the question: It is the bright day that brings forth the adder; And that craves wary walking.
Seite 211 - Have we anything new to offer upon the subject? Nothing. We have held the subject up in every light of which it is capable ; but it has been all in vain.