 | Marcus Fabius Quintilianus - 1856 - 518 pages
...as the forcible and the gentle, the higher and the lower ; and of slower or quicker time. J 18. But between these varieties there are other intermediate...the good qualities of the voice, like those of all our other faculties, are improved by attention and deteriorated by neglect. The attention to be paid... | |
 | William Vincent Byars - Orators - 1901 - 610 pages
...tone of the voice, however, ought to be sweet, not grating. lower; and of slower or quicker time. But between these varieties there are other intermediate...easily distinguished by the ear as the face by the eye. But the good qualities of the voice, like those of all our other faculties, are improved by attention... | |
 | W. V. Byars - Oratory - 1901 - 616 pages
...intonation, as the forcible and the gentle, the higher and the lower; and of slower or quicker time. But between these varieties there are other intermediate...easily distinguished by the ear as the face by the eye. But the good qualities of the voice, like those of all our other faculties, are improved by attention... | |
 | Quintilian - Latin prose literature - 1902 - 544 pages
...as the forcible and the gentle, the higher and the lower ; and of slower or quicker time. J 18. But between these varieties there are other intermediate...distinguished by the ear, as the face by the eye. 1 9. But the good qualities of the voice, like those of all our other faculties, are improved by attention... | |
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In the management of the voice there are many particulars to be observed ; for besides the three main distinctions of acute, grave, and intermediate, there is need of many other kinds of intonation, as the forcible and the gentle, the higher and the lower;... 