A Book of Heroic Verse. E-book. Formato PDF Arthur Burrell   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

Her open eyes desire the truth. The wisdom of a thousand years Is in them. May perpetual youth Keep dry their light from tears; That her fair form may stand and shine, Make bright our days and light our dreams, Turning to scorn with lips divine The falsehood of extremes! Lord tennyson.

Clear Speaking and Good Reading. E-book. Formato PDF Arthur Burrell   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

This is no doubt granted; but the art requires more. It requires the preservation and careful train ing of that elegance of voice which Nature bestows on almost all of us. This sounds ridiculous. The voices of some of our friends, as we mentally run them over, are harsh, commonplace, affected, strident, feeble, ?uffy, sloppy, grating, silly. There is no end to the epithets by which we can describe other people's voices; but,surely such epithets may be applied only to some voices. And these some were they always harsh and commonplace? Was there not a time when they were restrained, sweet, and pathetic? Are they not sometimes restrained, sweet, and pathetic still? And of other voices, as we mentally run them over — what words are too beautiful to describe them? Stirring and enthusiastic voices; soft and persuasive voices; mysterious, penetrating.