All that popular elocution does is to lend us this knowledge for a momentary pleasure or enjoyment.
But when the result merely is of the most essential importance the advantage must be given to popular elocution and fine language.
But it may be asked in what cases ought popular elocution to rise to a fine, a noble style?
A reverend disputant of the same costiveness in public elocutionwith myself.
The perfection of elocution and of singing is to carry on all these various processes simultaneously in as perfect a manner as the subject and the occasion may demand.
In ordinary conversation this proceeding is automatic and mechanical, in elocution or song more or less volitional and artistic.
His stores of facts are relieved of all dryness or repulsion in the presentation, by the panoramic style in which he marshals them before the eye, all clad in the garb furnished forth by a rich elocution and lively fancy.
His speeches might be set down merely as rare specimens of elocution or declamation, but for one peculiarity.
A simper plays on his countenance; his elocution is soft and delicate; his action pathetic; his sentences entangled in a maze of sweet perplexity; he plays off the whole of his theatrical skill, and hopes to elevate and surprise.
My elocution master told me that Shakespeare was not my forte, so I studied some more modern pieces.
His elocution is stomachic,--as the American's is labial.
Orthophony; or the Cultivation of the Voice in Elocution William Russell Boston, 1859.
Those who imagine that Regnier's courses were merely so many lessons of elocution and gesticulation would be altogether mistaken.
That all principles of Elocution which may be taught will continue in the consciousness of the reader or speaker--that he will be ever thinking of the vocal functions which he exercises.
Taverner, one of the best teachers of elocution I have ever known.
Whateley's views in regard to Elocution were somewhat the reactionary product of the highly artificial style of pulpit oratory which appears to have been the fashion in the Dublin of his day.
His sentences were so short, his language so racy, his voice rang so clear, his elocution was so complete.
I have always thought that every young man who intends to take holy orders should be compelled to attend elocution classes as part of the training.
I think it is rather a pity that Mr. Carlyon has not takenelocution lessons.
I am not sure that he has not some physical difficulties to surmount," went on Malcolm; "but however that may be, a course of elocution and some sound advice about the management of the voice would have been of immense value.
Then he left home to become a teacher of elocutionin various British schools, and by the time he was of age he had made several slight discoveries as to the nature of vowel-sounds.
With or without an instructor, this Manual is just what the student is in great need of, and he can supply that need by a study of 'Elocution Simplified.
And to see the way Gertie Black, the elocution teacher, would carry on!
The only thing I allowed the elocution teacher and directress to do was to put on my make-up for me .
It was a feat of invention, of memory, of concentration--and such was the elocution of the trained soloist that not a word was lost.
The two and a half hours in which a play in Shakespeare's time was often acted would not be possible to-day, even without delays for acts and scenes, with the methods of elocution now in vogue.
So with an efficient elocution and no "waits," the Elizabethan actors would have got through one-half of a play before our modern actors could cover a third.
But our actors, who excel in modern plays by the truth and force of their presentation of life, when they appear in Shakespeare make use of an elocution that no human being was ever known to indulge in.
Elocution was to the playwrights an all-important consideration.
Even Bossuet would attend the theatre to learn grace and elocution from them and their brethren: but when he had profited by the instruction, he denounced them all as "children of the devil!
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