An Essay on the Study of Literature: And on Vocal Culture as Indispensable to an Aesthetic Appreciation of PoetryC. Desilver, 1867 - 48 páginas |
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... learned the names and habits , the genera and species , of all the beasts of the field , and the fowls of the air , and of the creatures that inhabit the mighty deep ; he may , by a subtle chemistry , have resolved all matter into its ...
... learned the names and habits , the genera and species , of all the beasts of the field , and the fowls of the air , and of the creatures that inhabit the mighty deep ; he may , by a subtle chemistry , have resolved all matter into its ...
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... learned Bishop Whately teaches on the subject in his " Elements of Rhetoric . " In Part IV . , Chap . II . , § 2 , of this work , he says : " Nature , or custom , which is a second nature , suggests spontaneously the different modes of ...
... learned Bishop Whately teaches on the subject in his " Elements of Rhetoric . " In Part IV . , Chap . II . , § 2 , of this work , he says : " Nature , or custom , which is a second nature , suggests spontaneously the different modes of ...
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... learned author , in the introduction to the first edition , " I feel assured , by the result of the rigid method of observation employed throughout the in- quiry , that if science should ever come to one consent on this point , it will ...
... learned author , in the introduction to the first edition , " I feel assured , by the result of the rigid method of observation employed throughout the in- quiry , that if science should ever come to one consent on this point , it will ...
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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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Página 26 - For woman is not undevelopt man, But diverse : could we make her as the man, Sweet Love were slain : his dearest bond is this. Not like to like, but like in difference. Yet in the long years liker must they grow ; The man be more of woman, she of man; He gain in sweetness and in moral height, Nor lose the wrestling thews that throw the world ; She mental breadth, nor fail in childward care, Nor lose the childlike in the larger mind; Till at the last she set herself to man, Like perfect music unto...
Página 30 - Sea that bares her bosom to the moon; The winds that will be howling at all hours, And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers; For this, for everything, we are out of tune; It moves us not.
Página 19 - We get no good By being ungenerous, even to a book, And calculating profits . . so much help By so much reading. It is rather when We gloriously forget ourselves, and plunge Soul-forward, headlong, into a book's profound, Impassioned for its beauty and salt of truth — 'Tis then we get the right good from a book.
Página 41 - ... execution ! If he were devoting himself to the organ, what months and years would he labor that he might know its compass and be master of its keys, and be able to draw out at will all its various combinations of harmonious sound and its full richness and delicacy of expression!
Página 36 - 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.
Página 36 - 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.
Página viii - To a Mountain Daisy ON TURNING ONE DOWN WITH THE PLOUGH IN APRIL 1786 WEE, modest, crimson-tipped flow'r, Thou's met me in an evil hour ; For I maun crush amang the stoure Thy slender stem : To spare thee now is past my pow'r, Thou bonnie gem. Alas ! it's no thy neebor sweet, The bonnie lark, companion meet, Bending thee 'mang the dewy weet, Wi...
Página 41 - And yet he will fancy that the grandest, the most various and most expressive of all instruments which the Infinite Creator has fashioned by the union of an intellectual soul with the powers of speech, may be played upon without study or practice...
Página 42 - Go to some, may I say all of our colleges and universities, and observe how the art of speaking, — is not taught there. See a boy of but fifteen years, sent upon a stage, pale and choking with apprehension, in an attempt to do that, without instruction, which he came purposely to learn ; and...
Página 41 - ... 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.