Elements of Elocution: In which the Principles of Reading and Speaking are Investigated ... with Directions for Strengthening and Modulating the Voice ... to which is Added a Complete System of the Passions, Showing how They Affect the Countenance, Tone of Voice, and Gesture of the Body : Exemplified by a Copious Selection of the Most Striking Passages of Shakespeare : the Whole Illustrated by Copper-plates Explaining the Nature of Accent, Emphasis, Inflection, and CadenceD. Mallory & Company, 1810 - 379 էջ |
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... but perseverance , and , perhaps , enthusiasm , at last brought it to a period . Without any breach of modesty , it may be asserted , that the general idea is new , curious , and important and , without any false humility , I 2 PREFACE .
... but perseverance , and , perhaps , enthusiasm , at last brought it to a period . Without any breach of modesty , it may be asserted , that the general idea is new , curious , and important and , without any false humility , I 2 PREFACE .
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... Period Page 17 19 25 27 31 39 70 71 73 78 88 91 92 97 Pronunciation of a Loose Sentence 99 the Antithetick Member 105 the Penultimate Member 106 the Series 112 the Simple Series 116 the Compound Series 121 the Series of Serieses 129 the ...
... Period Page 17 19 25 27 31 39 70 71 73 78 88 91 92 97 Pronunciation of a Loose Sentence 99 the Antithetick Member 105 the Penultimate Member 106 the Series 112 the Simple Series 116 the Compound Series 121 the Series of Serieses 129 the ...
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... period The colon The semicolon The comma } { marked thus- ; and those pauses which are accompanied with an al- teration in the tone of the voice , into The interrogation The exclamation marked thus The parenthesis The period is supposed ...
... period The colon The semicolon The comma } { marked thus- ; and those pauses which are accompanied with an al- teration in the tone of the voice , into The interrogation The exclamation marked thus The parenthesis The period is supposed ...
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... period . This is the most concise and comprehensive view I could possibly collect from the several authors , who have written on this subject . But it may be observed , that these rules , though sufficient to pre- vent confusion in ...
... period . This is the most concise and comprehensive view I could possibly collect from the several authors , who have written on this subject . But it may be observed , that these rules , though sufficient to pre- vent confusion in ...
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... periods for when the phrases are long , he says , we point high- er than when they are short . This confession is a sure proof , that the rules of these grammarians did not reach all cases ; and that , in speaking , they often found ...
... periods for when the phrases are long , he says , we point high- er than when they are short . This confession is a sure proof , that the rules of these grammarians did not reach all cases ; and that , in speaking , they often found ...
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Elements of Elocution: In which the Principles of Reading and Speaking are ... John Walker Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1815 |
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adjective admit adopt the falling agreeable antithesis antithetick object cadence Cæsar cæsura Cicero comma commencing connected convey couplet Demosthenes different inflections distinction distinguish emphasis emphatick words Euboea example expressed eyes Fair Penitent falling inflection flection following sentence force former give harmony hath heaven Ibid idea inflection of voice interrogative words Julius Cæsar kind last member last word latter loose sentence lower tone marked meaning mind modifying words monotone musick nature necessarily necessary nounced observed Oroonoko Othello parenthesis passage passion perceive perfect sense period phasis pleasure preceding pronounced pronunciation prose publick punctuation question reader reading require the falling require the rising rising inflection Rule seems semicolon shew short pause single words slide soul sound speaker speaking Spect Spectator stress substantive syllable taste tence thee thing thou tion tone of voice unaccented variety verb verse whole Winter's Tale
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Էջ 324 - The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids that weave their thread with bones, Do use to chant it ; it is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age.
Էջ 338 - Seems, madam ! nay, it is ; I know not seems. 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black...
Էջ 324 - If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it: that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.
Էջ 324 - I'd have you do it ever: when you sing, I'd have you buy and sell so; so give alms; Pray so ; and, for the ordering your affairs, To sing them too : When you do dance, I wish you A wave o...
Էջ 266 - OF Man's First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death into the World, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat, Sing Heav'nly Muse, that on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That Shepherd, who first taught the chosen Seed, In the Beginning how the Heav'ns and Earth Rose out of Chaos...
Էջ 351 - I'll leave you till night: you are welcome to Elsinore. Ros. Good my lord ! [Exeunt Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Ham. Ay, so, God be wi' you : — Now I am alone. O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I ! Is it not monstrous, that this player here, But in a fiction, in a dream of passion, Could force his soul so to his own conceit...
Էջ 337 - I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano ; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine a sad one.
Էջ 295 - I had a thing to say, — but let it go : The sun is in the heaven, and the proud day, Attended with the pleasures of the world, Is all too wanton, and too full of gawds, To give me audience : — If the midnight bell Did, with his iron tongue and brazen mouth, Sound on into the drowsy race of night...
Էջ 362 - Julius bleed for justice' sake? What villain touch'd his body, that did stab, And not for justice? What, shall one of us, That struck the foremost man of all this world, But for supporting robbers; shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes? And sell the mighty space of our large...
Էջ 338 - My mother had a maid call'd Barbara : She was in love ; and he she lov'd prov'd mad, And did forsake her : she had a song of " willow ;" An old thing 'twas, but it express'd her fortune, And she died singing it...