Vocal and Action-language Culture and ExpressionLee and Shepard, 1884 - 163 pages |
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accented action Action-language articulation Arytenoid cartilage attitude audience body breathing BUNKER HILL MONUMENT cadence Cæsar called cartilage cavities chest circumflex climax cricoid cartilage delivery Demosthenes diaphragmatic diaphragmatic breathing discourse downward slides effect emotion emphasis epiglottis Exercise expression face Falling slide Faults fingers force forward front gesture give glottis habit hand Head inclined high pitch indicates inflection language larynx lifted lips Lochinvar long quantity low pitch lower lungs Macbeth MEDIAN STRESS Medium pitch melody mental middle pitch monotone mouth movement muscles naturally Netherby object orator oratory palm passion pause Pharisees pharynx pitch position Practice pronunciation pure tone quality of voice reading resonance Rising slide semitone sentence shoulder slow rate sound speak speaker speech strong syllable thou thought throat thumb thyroid cartilage tink tion tongue TOUSSAINT L'OUVERTURE truth unto upper utterance vertebral column vibration vocal cords vocal effort vowel word wrist
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Page 149 - Twere better by far To have matched our fair cousin with young Lochinvar." One touch to her hand, and one word in her ear, When they reached the hall-door, and the charger stood near; So light to the croupe the fair lady he swung, So light to the saddle before her he sprung ! "She is won! we are gone, over bank, bush, and scaur; They'll have fleet steeds that follow,
Page 149 - So stately his form, and so lovely her face, That never a hall such a galliard did grace ; While her mother did fret, and her father did fume, And the bridegroom stood dangling his bonnet and plume, And the bridemaidens whispered, " 'Twere better, by far, To have matched our fair cousin with young Lochinvar.
Page 154 - Caesar carelessly but nod on him. He had a fever when he was in Spain, And when the fit was on him, I did mark How he did shake...
Page 100 - Father, thy hand Hath reared these venerable columns, thou Didst weave this verdant roof. Thou didst look down Upon the naked earth, and, forthwith, rose All these fair ranks of trees.
Page 153 - We both have fed as well, and we can both Endure the winter's cold as well as he.
Page 157 - We know, that no inscription, on entablatures less broad than the earth itself, can carry information of the events we commemorate where it has not already gone ; and that no structure, which shall not outlive the duration of letters and knowledge among men, can prolong the memorial.
Page 155 - Rome, thou hast lost the breed of noble bloods! When went there by an age, since the great flood, But it was fam'd with more than with one man?
Page 96 - Homer was the greater genius ; Virgil, the better artist : in the one, we most admire the man ; in the other, the work. Homer hurries us with a commanding impetuosity ; Virgil leads us with an attractive majesty. Homer scatters with a generous profusion ; Virgil bestows with a careful magnificence. Homer, like the Nile, pours out his riches with a sudden overflow ; Virgil, like a river in its banks, with a constant stream.
Page 154 - Dar'st thou, Cassius, now Leap in with me into this angry flood, And swim to yonder point?" — Upon the word, Accoutred as I was, I plunged in, And bade him follow : so, indeed, he did, — The torrent roar'd ; and we did buffet it With lusty sinews ; throwing it aside And stemming it with hearts of controversy.
Page 154 - Upon the word, Accoutred as I was, I plunged in And bade him follow; so indeed he did. The torrent roar'd, and we did buffet it With lusty sinews, throwing it aside And stemming it with hearts of controversy; But ere we could arrive the point propos'd, Caesar cried, 'Help me, Cassius, or I sink!