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... things being equal , every person will have a power to please and persuade , influence and direct the minds of others , through the media of speech and music , measurable generally by the in- tegrity of the whole bodily organi- zation ...
... things being equal , every person will have a power to please and persuade , influence and direct the minds of others , through the media of speech and music , measurable generally by the in- tegrity of the whole bodily organi- zation ...
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... thing that interferes in the least with the full expansion of the lungs in breathing ; and the relation of the dia- phragm to respiration ( fig . 9 ) , explains the horrid con- sequences of tight - lacing . That this subject may be ...
... thing that interferes in the least with the full expansion of the lungs in breathing ; and the relation of the dia- phragm to respiration ( fig . 9 ) , explains the horrid con- sequences of tight - lacing . That this subject may be ...
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... things to be attended to , this chapter will be devoted- to such exercises and remedies as are specially applicable to defects of the vocal apparatus . In all cases it is im- portant to harmonize as much as possible the action of all ...
... things to be attended to , this chapter will be devoted- to such exercises and remedies as are specially applicable to defects of the vocal apparatus . In all cases it is im- portant to harmonize as much as possible the action of all ...
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... thing for the stammerer to do is to get com- plete control of his breathing apparatus . This can be done by means of the exercises mentioned in the succeed- ing chapter , especially those recommended by Professor Zachos , combined with ...
... thing for the stammerer to do is to get com- plete control of his breathing apparatus . This can be done by means of the exercises mentioned in the succeed- ing chapter , especially those recommended by Professor Zachos , combined with ...
Page 41
... condition of the voice are few , simple , and mainly nega tive . 1. Be temperate in all things - and this means , avoid Fig . 40 . Fig . 41 . DECLAMATION . ARGUMENT . gluttony and dissipation , and be moderate in all sensuous. ( 41 )
... condition of the voice are few , simple , and mainly nega tive . 1. Be temperate in all things - and this means , avoid Fig . 40 . Fig . 41 . DECLAMATION . ARGUMENT . gluttony and dissipation , and be moderate in all sensuous. ( 41 )
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Page 94 - In the silence of the night, How we shiver with affright At the melancholy menace of their tone! For every sound that floats From the rust within their throats Is a groan. And the people - ah, the people They that dwell up in the steeple...
Page 92 - HEAR the sledges with the bells— Silver bells ! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night ! While the stars that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight...
Page 94 - All alone, And who tolling, tolling, tolling, In that muffled monotone, Feel a glory in so rolling On the human heart a stone They are neither man nor woman They are neither brute nor human They are Ghouls: And their king it is who tolls; And he rolls, rolls, rolls, Rolls A paean from the bells!
Page 96 - Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of good.
Page 59 - 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, the unbounded prospect lies before me ; But shadows, clouds, and darkness rest upon it.
Page 91 - thing of evil — prophet still, if bird or devil! By that Heaven that bends above us, by that God we both adore, Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn, It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore...
Page 88 - Let me see, then, what thereat is, and this mystery explore, — Let my heart be still a moment, and this mystery explore : 'Tis the wind, and nothing more.
Page 91 - Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend! " I shrieked, upstarting' "Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's Plutonian shore ! Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken ! Leave my loneliness unbroken! quit the bust above my door! Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
Page 72 - Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild...
Page 87 - This it is and nothing more." Presently my soul grew stronger; hesitating then no longer, "Sir," said I, "or Madam, truly your forgiveness I implore; But the fact is I was napping; and so gently you came rapping, And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door, That I scarce was sure I heard you.