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id: 38444
author: Sheridan, Thomas
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title:
  A Discourse Being Introductory to his Course of Lectures on Elocution and the English Language (1759)

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  THE AUGUSTAN REPRINT SOCIETY THOMAS SHERIDAN A DISCOURSE BEING INTRODUCTORY TO HIS COURSE OF LECTURES ON ELOCUTION AND THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE (1759) _Introduction by_ G. P. MOHRMANN PUBLICATION NUMBER 136 WILLIAM ANDREWS CLARK MEMORIAL LIBRARY UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES 1969 GENERAL EDITORS William E. Conway, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ George Robert Guffey, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Maximillian E. Novak, _University of California, Los Angeles_ ASSOCIATE EDITOR David S. Rodes, _University of California, Los Angeles_ ADVISORY EDITORS Richard C. Boys, _University of Michigan_ James L. Clifford, _Columbia University_ Ralph Cohen, _University of Virginia_ Vinton A. Dearing, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Arthur Friedman, _University of Chicago_ Louis A. Landa, _Princeton University_ Earl Miner, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Samuel H. Monk, _University of Minnesota_ Everett T. Moore, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Lawrence Clark Powell, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ James Sutherland, _University College, London_ H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., _University of California, Los Angeles_ Robert Vosper, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ CORRESPONDING SECRETARY Edna C. Davis, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Mary Kerbret, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ INTRODUCTION Thomas Sheridan (1718-1788) devoted his life to enterprises within the sphere of spoken English, and although he achieved more than common success in all his undertakings, it was his fate to have his reputation eclipsed by more famous contemporaries and eroded by the passage of time. It is difficult to account for Sheridan's millennial approach to elocution, but his absorption in language study is most understandable.


id: 14403
author: Hathaway, Benjamin Adams
title: 1001 Questions and Answers on Orthography and Reading
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  When is T silent?_ Before _ch_ in the same syllable; also, in _Christmas_, _eclat_, _mortgage_, etc. 27. From what is the word Orthography derived?_


id: 4942
author: Emerson, Charles Wesley
title: Evolution of Expression — Volume 1
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  Oh, there be players, that I have seen play, and heard others praise, and that highly, not to speak it profanely, that, neither having the accent of Christians, nor the gait of Christian, Pagan, nor man, have so strutted, and bellowed, that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably. Great men have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the Eternal was stirring at their heart, working through their hands, predominating in all their being.


id: 34498
author: Emerson, Charles Wesley
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title:
  Evolution of Expression, Volume 2—Revised A Compilation of Selections Illustrating the Four Stages of Development in Art As Applied to Oratory; Twenty-Eighth Edition

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  4. Old Wardle led the way to a pretty large sheet of ice; and, the fat boy and Mr. Weller having shovelled and swept away the snow which had fallen on it during the night, Mr. Bob Sawyer adjusted his skates with a dexterity which to Mr. Winkle was perfectly marvellous, and described circles with his left leg, and cut figures of eight, and inscribed upon the ice, without once stopping for breath, a great many other pleasant and astonishing devices, to the excessive satisfaction of Mr. Pickwick, Mr. Tupman, and the ladies; which reached a pitch of positive enthusiasm when old Wardle and Benjamin Allen, assisted by the aforesaid Bob Sawyer, performed some mystic evolutions, which they called a reel. Mr. Winkle stooping forward, with his body half doubled up, was being assisted over the ice by Mr. Weller, in a very singular and un-swan-like manner, when Mr. Pickwick most innocently shouted from the opposite bank,-- Sam! Sir? said Mr. Weller.


id: 51109
author: Fobes, Walter K.
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title:
  Elocution Simplified With an Appendix on Lisping, Stammering, Stuttering, and Other Defects of Speech.

summary:
  As a whole, this piece requires for quality of voice the _pure tone_; force, _gentle_; movement, _moderate_; pitch, _middle_; stress, _median_. Movement, quick; pitch, high; with quality changing on words _sudden_, _sparkle_, _bicker_, _hurry_, _slip_, in such a way as to suggest the meaning of the word.


id: 31828
author: Everts, Katherine Jewell
title: Vocal Expression: A Class-book of Voice Training and Interpretation
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  Your voice may fail at a dozen different points, but _directed_ thought can employ so skilfully even an inefficient instrument that the resultant expression, while never satisfying, may still carry conviction. Sing them over: _higher_, _higher_, _springest_, _fire_, _wingest_, _singing_, _soar_, _soaring_, _singest_.


id: 6333
author: Winter, Irvah Lester
title: Public Speaking: Principles and Practice
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  Now, gentlemen, as you sit to-night in this elegant hall, think of the houses in which the _Mayflower_ men and women lived in that first winter! Let them and me rest in obscurity and peace, and my tomb remain uninscribed, until other times and other men can do justice to my character.


id: 8093
author: Howard, Anna K. (Anna Kelsey)
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title:
  The Canadian Elocutionist Designed for the Use of Colleges, Schools and Self Instruction, Together with a Copious Selection in Prose and Poetry of Pieces Adapted for Reading, Recitation and Practice

summary:
  That is, in opposition to thou _hast been_ a man, or thou _wilt be_ one. Having inflated the lungs to their utmost capacity, form the breath into the element of long _o_, in its escape through the vocal organs.


