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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... taste and judgment of the reader .. Theory of Rhetorical Punctuation . Ir may be observed , that pausing is regulated by two circumstances ; one is , conveying ideas distinctly by separating such as are distinct , and uniting such as ...
... taste and judgment of the reader .. Theory of Rhetorical Punctuation . Ir may be observed , that pausing is regulated by two circumstances ; one is , conveying ideas distinctly by separating such as are distinct , and uniting such as ...
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... taste expect to be pleased at the same time they are informed ; and think that the best sense always deserves the best lan- guage . In which example , we find the latter mem- ber adding something to the former , but not modify- ing or ...
... taste expect to be pleased at the same time they are informed ; and think that the best sense always deserves the best lan- guage . In which example , we find the latter mem- ber adding something to the former , but not modify- ing or ...
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... taste expect to be pleased , at the same time they are informed ; and think that the best sense always de- serves the best language . In this sentence an inverted period is constructed at the word informed ; which requires a pause at ...
... taste expect to be pleased , at the same time they are informed ; and think that the best sense always de- serves the best language . In this sentence an inverted period is constructed at the word informed ; which requires a pause at ...
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... taste in writing will discern , after the same manner , not only the general beauties and imperfections of an author , but discover the several ways of thinking and express ing himself , which diversify him from all other authors ...
... taste in writing will discern , after the same manner , not only the general beauties and imperfections of an author , but discover the several ways of thinking and express ing himself , which diversify him from all other authors ...
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... taste and understanding of the reader . I doubt not but many will be displeased at the number of pauses I have added to those already in use ; but I can with confidence affirm , that not half the pauses are found in printing which are ...
... taste and understanding of the reader . I doubt not but many will be displeased at the number of pauses I have added to those already in use ; but I can with confidence affirm , that not half the pauses are found in printing which are ...
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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...