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 sidor |
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... person is nearly proportioned to the forcible pronunciation of so many words to- gether as are necessary to preserve the sense un- broken ; the contrary , however , would often be the case , if the integrity of the sense depended on the ...
... person is nearly proportioned to the forcible pronunciation of so many words to- gether as are necessary to preserve the sense un- broken ; the contrary , however , would often be the case , if the integrity of the sense depended on the ...
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... Persons of good 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 ...
... Persons of good 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 ...
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... Persons of good 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 ...
... Persons of good 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 ...
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... person who possessed the faculty of distinguishing flavours in so great a perfection , that , after having tasted ten different kinds of tea , he would distinguish , without seeing the colour of it , the particular sort which was ...
... person who possessed the faculty of distinguishing flavours in so great a perfection , that , after having tasted ten different kinds of tea , he would distinguish , without seeing the colour of it , the particular sort which was ...
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... person , who has a right to exer- cise it . Locke . To which , their want of judging abilities , add also their want of opportunity to apply such a serious consideration as may let them into the true goodness and evil of things , which ...
... person , who has a right to exer- cise it . Locke . To which , their want of judging abilities , add also their want of opportunity to apply such a serious consideration as may let them into the true goodness and evil of things , which ...
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Elements of Elocution: In which the Principles of Reading and Speaking are ... John Walker Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 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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Sida 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.
Sida 338 - Seems, madam ! nay, it is ; I know not seems. 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black...
Sida 324 - If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it: that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.
Sida 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...
Sida 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...
Sida 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...
Sida 337 - I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano ; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine a sad one.
Sida 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...
Sida 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...
Sida 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...