Lessons in Enunciation: Comprising a Course of Elementary Exercises, and a Statement of Common Errors in Articulation, with the Rules of Correct Usage in Pronouncing. To which is Added an Appendix ...Jenks, Palmer & Company, 1848 |
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... pitch , and time , or rate of utterance . Force . The distinction has been already made between the force of vociferation , and that of energetic articulation . The former was mentioned as arising from peculiar physical cir- cumstances ...
... pitch , and time , or rate of utterance . Force . The distinction has been already made between the force of vociferation , and that of energetic articulation . The former was mentioned as arising from peculiar physical cir- cumstances ...
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... and are equally defective and injurious ; whether we regard the speaker himself , the sentiments which he utters , or their influence on the minds of others . Pitch . Few faults of professional speaking have a worse 72 APPENDIX .
... and are equally defective and injurious ; whether we regard the speaker himself , the sentiments which he utters , or their influence on the minds of others . Pitch . Few faults of professional speaking have a worse 72 APPENDIX .
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... Pitch . Few faults of professional speaking have a worse effect , than the grave and hollow note of voice , into which the studious and the sedentary are peculiarly apt to fall , in public address . A deep and sepulchral solemnity is ...
... Pitch . Few faults of professional speaking have a worse effect , than the grave and hollow note of voice , into which the studious and the sedentary are peculiarly apt to fall , in public address . A deep and sepulchral solemnity is ...
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... pitch . The exercises on pitch are intended to produce the effect of contrast , and to guard the ear against the undue preva- lence of any note unauthorized by meaning or emotion , or tending to create indistinctness of utterance . The ...
... pitch . The exercises on pitch are intended to produce the effect of contrast , and to guard the ear against the undue preva- lence of any note unauthorized by meaning or emotion , or tending to create indistinctness of utterance . The ...
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... PITCH . Loro Notes . ' Not a drum was heard , nor a funeral note As his corse to the rampart we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried . We buried him darkly , at dead of night , The ...
... PITCH . Loro Notes . ' Not a drum was heard , nor a funeral note As his corse to the rampart we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried . We buried him darkly , at dead of night , The ...
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accuracy appropriate carefully avoided careless chiefly cing classes of words commence common error consonant correct Cuba delight diphthong discipline distinct articulation distinct enunciation drawling due attention elementary emotion energy English language erroneously accented error commonly Examples for practice exemplified exer exercise of reading exercises in articulation exercises on force exercises on pitch expression faults feeble force of utterance forcible formal habits of enunciation hallowed ground heard indistinct inflection labial lesson and exercises letter mispro mispronounced mode name sound natural nounced Obscuring the sound occur omission omitting organs of speech orthoepy Palatic prevailing professional public address public speaking pupils reading and speaking reading or speaking render requires sometimes sound of e sound unaccented speaker speakin strong and clear style of utterance taste tion tone true sound unaccented sounds unaccented syllables usage utmost vigorous voice vowel Walker's notation William Russell young learner
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Page 79 - Night, sable goddess ! from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world. Silence how dead! and darkness how profound! Nor eye nor listening ear an object finds ; Creation sleeps. 'Tis as the general pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause ; An awful pause! prophetic of her end.
Page 78 - NOT a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried.
Page 75 - 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 49 - Nor is it less pleased with its first successful endeavours to walk, or rather to run (which precedes walking), although entirely ignorant of the importance of the attainment to its future life, and even without applying it to any present purpose. A child is delighted with speaking, without having anything to say ; and with walking, without knowing where to go. And prior to both these, I am disposed to believe that the -waking hours of infancy are agreeably taken up with the exercise of vision, or...
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