The Effective Speaking Voice: With Passages for Practical ApplicationMacmillan, 1920 - 274 pages |
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Common terms and phrases
Ęsop articulation audience better Cęsar called cavities Children's Crusade Christmas clear common consonant cried dead death diaphragm DICKENS diphthong drawbridge earth emotional example EXERCISES expression eyes father fault feeling Fezziwig force Godfrey Cass habit hand hard palate hear heard heart heaven honorable inflection inhalation Julius Cęsar King lips living look Lord lower Lycidas mind moderate mouth nasal never night normal quality NOTE organs orotund pause pharynx phrasing pitch PRACTICAL APPLICATION principles produce pronunciation range Repeat resonance cavities rising Scrooge SELECTIONS FOR PRACTICAL sentence SHAKESPEARE Silas Marner silent soft palate sometimes soul sound is represented speaker speaking speech stress student subdued syllable teeth tell TENNYSON thee There's thing thou thought throat tion tone tongue unvocalized utterance vocal vocal bands vocalized breath voice vowel vowel sounds Warren Hastings Westminster Abbey whisper wind words
Popular passages
Page 254 - 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 51 - Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they? Think not of them, thou hast thy music, too, While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day, And touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue...
Page 154 - We thought as we hollowed his narrow bed And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow ! Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him, — But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him.
Page 187 - Was parmaceti for an inward bruise; And that it was great pity, so it was, This villainous salt-petre should be digg'd Out of the bowels of the harmless earth, Which many a good tall fellow had destroy'd So cowardly; and, but for these vile guns, He would himself have been a soldier.
Page 263 - We both have fed as well, and we can both Endure the winter's cold as well as he...
Page 100 - Far-called, our navies melt away; On dune and headland sinks the fire: Lo, all our pomp of yesterday Is one with Nineveh and Tyre ! Judge of the Nations, spare us yet, Lest we forget - lest we forget...
Page 101 - When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last time, the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union ; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent ; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood ! Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic, now known and honored throughout the earth,' still full high advanced, its arms and trophies streaming in their...
Page 103 - My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still; My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will...
Page 204 - Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure; Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the poor.
Page 255 - Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new : That which they have done but earnest of the things that they shall do...