A Grammar of Elocution: Containing the Principles of the Arts of Reading and Speaking; Illustrated by Appropriate Exercises and Examples ...A. H. Maltby, 1830 - 344 páginas |
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... distinct ARTICULA- TION , must form the basis of a good delivery . Speak- ing and reading cannot be impressive if the utterance is indistinct . Students of Elocution should therefore al- ways attend to articulation , as the primary ...
... distinct ARTICULA- TION , must form the basis of a good delivery . Speak- ing and reading cannot be impressive if the utterance is indistinct . Students of Elocution should therefore al- ways attend to articulation , as the primary ...
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... distinct , in due succession and of due weight . " * A good ar- ticulation is an affair altogether mechanical . It requires nothing more than attention and continued elementary practice . It depends upon a few certain definite positions ...
... distinct , in due succession and of due weight . " * A good ar- ticulation is an affair altogether mechanical . It requires nothing more than attention and continued elementary practice . It depends upon a few certain definite positions ...
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... distinct , a forcible , and an impressive articulation : if it be not adopted and steadily pursued , as a preparatory exercise , and for such a length of time as the deficiencies of individuals may require , the usual defects will ...
... distinct , a forcible , and an impressive articulation : if it be not adopted and steadily pursued , as a preparatory exercise , and for such a length of time as the deficiencies of individuals may require , the usual defects will ...
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... distinct sounds . But the real order of things may be thus explained . In pronouncing the word MAN the lips are first intentionally brought together , and press- ed in a certain way against each other , and air being , at the same time ...
... distinct sounds . But the real order of things may be thus explained . In pronouncing the word MAN the lips are first intentionally brought together , and press- ed in a certain way against each other , and air being , at the same time ...
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... distinct and graceful articulation . This must be at once admitted by the reader , when he is informed that the for- ty - six elements exposed in our first tables do in different combinations , make up all the syllables of our language ...
... distinct and graceful articulation . This must be at once admitted by the reader , when he is informed that the for- ty - six elements exposed in our first tables do in different combinations , make up all the syllables of our language ...
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accented agreeable articulation aspiration Brutus cadence Cæsar called ceive cern concrete consonants degree delivery described discourse discrete downward slide earth effect elementary sounds Elocution Elocutionist emphasis emphatic employed equal wave example exercise expression eyes falling ditone falling slide fifth force forcible give Harfleur hath heard heart heaven high note Human Voice intervals light long quantity Lord loud marked marked radical measure median stress ments monotony nature nerally o'er octave pauses percussion persons plaintive practice pronounced pronunciation prosody public speaking quire racter radical pitch radical stress reading rise and fall rising ditone rising slide semitone sentence short simple melody soul speak speaker speech student sylla syllables TABLE OF CONSONANT TABLE OF VOWEL thee thine thing third thou art thought throne tion tone tremor unto utterance vanish vocal voice vowel elements vowel sounds words Δ Δ Δ
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