Principles of Public Speaking: Comprising the Techniques of Articulation, Phrasing, Emphasis; the Cure of Vocal Defects; the Elements of Gesture ... with Many Exercises, Forms, and Practice SelectionsG. P. Putnam's sons, 1899 - 465 Seiten |
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Seite 68 - At the foot of thy crags, O sea! But the tender grace of a day that is dead Will never come back to me." Monotone might properly be designated as the absence of inflection. It is produced by reading in
Seite 54 - T is the Divinity that stirs within us; 'T is Heaven itself that points out an Hereafter, And intimates Eternity to man. Eternity! — thou pleasing, dreadful thought! Through what variety of untried being, Through what new scenes and changes must we pass! The wide, th' unbounded prospect lies before me; But shadows, clouds, and darkness rest upon it.
Seite 44 - Oh, I have passed a miserable night, So full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams, That, as I am a Christian faithful man, I would not spend another such a night, Though 't were to buy a world of happy days, So full of dismal terror was the time!
Seite 132 - might Have stood against the world ; now lies he there, And none so poor to do him reverence." The curved lines of Gesture are horizontal and curved are three in number, corresponding to the Lines. lines of latitude on a globe. They are named Ascending, Horizontal, and Descending. The ascending line is above the horizontal plane, Ascending passing across the top of the head,
Seite 70 - containing pleasurable or amiable emotions require Rising Inflection. " You must wake and call me early, call me early, mother dear; To-morrow will be the happiest time of all the glad New Year; Of all the glad New Year, mother, the maddest, merriest day;
Seite 233 - And when they were gone aside, they talked between themselves, saying, This man doeth nothing worthy of death or of bonds. " Then said Agrippa unto Festus, This man might have been set at liberty, if he had not appealed unto Caesar.
Seite 124 - O my son Absalom ! my son, my son Absalom ! Would to God I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son." " Religion raises men above themselves ; irreligion sinks
Seite 132 - Thou sun ! of this great world both eye and soul. " The throne of eternity is a throne of mercy and love." " On Jordan's stormy banks I stand, And cast a wishful eye To Canaan's fair and happy land Where my possessions lie." The horizontal line is in the plane of the shoulders, and corresponds with the Rhetorical Ra- Horizontal dius of the Austin nomenclature.
Seite 75 - emphatic affirmation, even though the sentence is negative in construction, use Falling Inflection. " I tell the ministers I will neither give quarter nor take it." Illustration. 20.—The tone of command, censure, or authority ends with Falling Inflection. " Depart! and come not near The busy mart, the crowded city, more, Nor set thy foot a human threshold o'er;
Seite 64 - brav'd by his brother; Check'd like a bondman; all his faults observ'd, Set in a note-book, learn'd and conn'd by rote, To cast into my teeth." Thorough Stress is the application of the same degree of force to all parts of a word or syllable. It Thorough