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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... of Lessons for Reading in the English Language , I found my- self fully compensated for the misfortune of not being noticed by the Author of the Speaker . upward and downward slide , into which all speaking sounds viii PREFACE .
... of Lessons for Reading in the English Language , I found my- self fully compensated for the misfortune of not being noticed by the Author of the Speaker . upward and downward slide , into which all speaking sounds viii PREFACE .
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... sounds may be resolved : The moment I admitted this distinction , I found I had pos → session of the quality of the voice I wanted ; for though these slides or inflections were indef- inite as to their quantity or duration , they were ...
... sounds may be resolved : The moment I admitted this distinction , I found I had pos → session of the quality of the voice I wanted ; for though these slides or inflections were indef- inite as to their quantity or duration , they were ...
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... sound Ordain them laws . Milton . Here , he descending , neither governs nor is govern- ed by any other part of the sentence ; and is said to be in the ablative absolute , and this independence must be marked by a short pause before and ...
... sound Ordain them laws . Milton . Here , he descending , neither governs nor is govern- ed by any other part of the sentence ; and is said to be in the ablative absolute , and this independence must be marked by a short pause before and ...
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... sounds may be divided into two kinds , namely , speaking sounds , and musical sounds . Mu- sical sounds are such as continue a given time on one precise point of the musical scale , and leap , as it were , from one note to another ...
... sounds may be divided into two kinds , namely , speaking sounds , and musical sounds . Mu- sical sounds are such as continue a given time on one precise point of the musical scale , and leap , as it were , from one note to another ...
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... sounds makes it almost as impossible for the ear to mark their sev- eral differences , as it would be for the eye to define an object that is swiftly passing before it , and contin- ually vanishing away ; the difficulty of arresting ...
... sounds makes it almost as impossible for the ear to mark their sev- eral differences , as it would be for the eye to define an object that is swiftly passing before it , and contin- ually vanishing away ; the difficulty of arresting ...
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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...