An Essay on the Study of Literature: And on Vocal Culture as Indispensable to an Aesthetic Appreciation of PoetryC. Desilver, 1867 - 48 ページ |
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adequate vocal expression æsthetic aim also em amplifies and completes braces a comparison CULTURE AS INDISPENSABLE degree different periods different views held difficult and ambitious discover the various earnest Elocution Elocutionist emotional ESSAY exercise Faust feeling flute genius and productions Goc DISTINCTLY graceful Guildenstern Hamlet harmonious higher Poetry highest vocal culture HIRAM CORSON human mind presents Human Voice Imagination impart impression infinite phases influence instruction intellect introductory ITERARY study Law of Goc literary art-product Locksley Hall melody ment millstone minute analysis moral NEHEMIAH never one-sidedness organs of speech passive phases and attitudes Philosopher ples poet poetic presents under different pression principles and rules productions of authors profound reader relative to literary Science scope to trace sensibilities sentiment soft blue sky speak spontaneous and unconscious study more interesting STUDY OF LITERATURE synthesis teach thought tions treat a literature true poem truth unconscious and spontaneous utterance widest and ripest words
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36 ページ - Tis as easy as lying; govern these ventages with your fingers and thumb, give it breath with your mouth, and it will discourse most eloquent music. Look you, these are the stops.
36 ページ - Impress but the mind fully with the sentiments, &c. to be uttered ; withdraw the attention from the sound, and fix it on the sense; and nature, or habit, will spontaneously suggest the proper Delivery.
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41 ページ - ... he comes to it a mere uninstructed tyro, and thinks to manage all its stops, and command the whole compass of its varied and comprehensive power.