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 sivua |
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Sivu i
... PAUSES , EMPHASIS , AND INFLECTIONS OF VOICE , AS ARE SUIT- ABLE TO EVERY VARIETY OF SENTENCE , ARE DISTINCTLY POINTED OUT AND EXPLAINED : WITH DIRECTIONS FOR STRENGTHENING AND MODULATING THE VOICE , SO AS TO RENDER IT VARIED , FORCIBLE ...
... PAUSES , EMPHASIS , AND INFLECTIONS OF VOICE , AS ARE SUIT- ABLE TO EVERY VARIETY OF SENTENCE , ARE DISTINCTLY POINTED OUT AND EXPLAINED : WITH DIRECTIONS FOR STRENGTHENING AND MODULATING THE VOICE , SO AS TO RENDER IT VARIED , FORCIBLE ...
Sivu viii
... Pause and Cadence , I found , Acquire a just variety of Pause and Inflection ; and though in the old Rule there was not a single word about inflection of the voice , in the new one I found the inflections of the voice di- vided into two ...
... Pause and Cadence , I found , Acquire a just variety of Pause and Inflection ; and though in the old Rule there was not a single word about inflection of the voice , in the new one I found the inflections of the voice di- vided into two ...
Sivu xiii
... the Simple Series 116 the Compound Series 121 the Series of Serieses 129 the Final Pause , or Period , 136 the Interrogation 140 the Exclamation 162 the Parenthesis 167 SECOND PART . ACCENT 181 Accent defined and explained 185.
... the Simple Series 116 the Compound Series 121 the Series of Serieses 129 the Final Pause , or Period , 136 the Interrogation 140 the Exclamation 162 the Parenthesis 167 SECOND PART . ACCENT 181 Accent defined and explained 185.
Sivu 19
... pauses , or rests , between sentences , and the parts of sentences , ac- cording to their proper quantity or proportion , as they are expressed in a just and accurate pronun- ciation . Others , as Sir James Burrow and Dr. Bowles ...
... pauses , or rests , between sentences , and the parts of sentences , ac- cording to their proper quantity or proportion , as they are expressed in a just and accurate pronun- ciation . Others , as Sir James Burrow and Dr. Bowles ...
Sivu 20
... pause double the time of the colon ; the colon , double the semicolon ; and the semicolon , double that of the comma , or smallest pause : the interrogation and exclamation points are said to be indefinite as to their quantity of time ...
... pause double the time of the colon ; the colon , double the semicolon ; and the semicolon , double that of the comma , or smallest pause : the interrogation and exclamation points are said to be indefinite as to their quantity of time ...
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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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Sivu 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.
Sivu 338 - Seems, madam ! nay, it is ; I know not seems. 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black...
Sivu 324 - If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it: that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.
Sivu 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...
Sivu 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...
Sivu 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...
Sivu 337 - I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano ; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine a sad one.
Sivu 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...
Sivu 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...
Sivu 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...