Elocution for Advanced Pupils; a Practical Treatise
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Observe the consonantal alliter- ation, the piling up of consonants, as it were, when Prospero speaks, " The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces. The solemn temples, the great globe itself" ; — So, too, when Lear invokes the elements. Do we not hear this brook as well as see it ? " Under an oak whose antique root peeps out Upon the brook which brawls along this wood ; " and, in another scene of As You Like It, analyze the music of these lines, especially noting the move- ment. " Under an ...oak, whose boughs were moss'd with age, And high top bald with dry antiquity, SUGGESTIONS OF HARMONY. I05 A wretched ragged man, o'ergrown with hair, Lay sleeping on his back : about his neck A green and gilded snake had wreathed itself, Who with her head, nimble in threats, approach'd The opening of his mouth ; but suddenly Seeing Orlando, it unlinked itself. And with indented glides did slip away Into a bush:" ****** Possibly these Shakespearian words might have been more melodiously expressed in a foreign tongue ; — there is no argument in the matter.
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