The Practice of Elocution, Or A Course of Exercises for Acquiring the Several Requisites of a Good DeliveryJ. Richardson, 1826 - 213 sivua |
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Sivu 39
... reader may escape censure , he can never attract attention and praise ; and the power of modulating the voice in unison with the structure and meaning of sentences , in reading as well as in speaking , must be acquired , as an ...
... reader may escape censure , he can never attract attention and praise ; and the power of modulating the voice in unison with the structure and meaning of sentences , in reading as well as in speaking , must be acquired , as an ...
Sivu 40
... reader at this stage of his progress , will probably find his ear incapable of distinguishing the accents according to the description ; but if he knows their effect , it will be enough . It is not by theory , nor by any set of ...
... reader at this stage of his progress , will probably find his ear incapable of distinguishing the accents according to the description ; but if he knows their effect , it will be enough . It is not by theory , nor by any set of ...
Sivu 41
... reader will use precisely the same modulative ac- cents , or even the same reader at different times ; and those mark- ed in the following sentences are therefore given not to prescribe rules , but to form the pupil's ear . - A pause ...
... reader will use precisely the same modulative ac- cents , or even the same reader at different times ; and those mark- ed in the following sentences are therefore given not to prescribe rules , but to form the pupil's ear . - A pause ...
Sivu 46
... reader be- gins to approach the suspensive accent . He may likewise indicate when a succession of similar accents are continuing upward or con- tinuing downward , by carrying the mark beyond the syllable where the inflection commences ...
... reader be- gins to approach the suspensive accent . He may likewise indicate when a succession of similar accents are continuing upward or con- tinuing downward , by carrying the mark beyond the syllable where the inflection commences ...
Sivu 52
... reader . Sometimes , indeed , the sense forbids the downward accent at such a place , because , though the portion of the sentence there terminating , may not seem to have a gramma- tical dependence on what follows , yet it has a ...
... reader . Sometimes , indeed , the sense forbids the downward accent at such a place , because , though the portion of the sentence there terminating , may not seem to have a gramma- tical dependence on what follows , yet it has a ...
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Abraham Slender Anger ARGUMENTATIVE MANNER beauty blood breath Cæsar called clause clouds cohobate Conclusive Accents consonant coward Delight denote Disjunctive Accents downward accent dread ELOCUTION emphatic accent emphatic modulation extempo Exultation fair Falstaff father feeling Fenton force give hand happiness heard heart heaven honour Indignation Interrogative Words Justice Shallow letter live looks màn mány mark mastiff meaning MEDITATIVE MANNER merely modulative mind Modulative Accents Narrative manner nature o'er Open vowels palatal passions Pity plain modulation PLAINTIVE EXPRESSION Plaintive manner pleasures pride Prince Henry pronounced pupil rate of utterance reader reading relaxes rises Scorn sentence SHAKSPEARE shut sounds slides Solemnity soul speak speaker Spithridates Suspensive and Conclusive sweet syllable tale of tale tences thee thing thou thought Tom Long tone triphthong unaccented syllables upward Vehemence VEHEMENT EXPRESSION virtue voice VOICE CONSONANTS words youth
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Sivu 85 - And will, no doubt, with reasons answer you. I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts : I am no orator, as Brutus is ; But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man...
Sivu 82 - When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening
Sivu 196 - With eyes severe and beard of formal cut, Full of wise saws and modern instances; And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon.
Sivu 116 - The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places : how are the mighty fallen ! Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon ; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.
Sivu 82 - Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower...
Sivu 93 - Why has not man a microscopic eye ? For this plain reason, man is not a fly.
Sivu 80 - And there came a traveller unto the rich man, and he spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd, to dress for the wayfaring man that was come unto him; but took the poor man's lamb, and dressed it for the man that was come to him.
Sivu 182 - I call upon the honour of your lordships to reverence the dignity of your ancestors, and to maintain your own. I call upon the spirit and humanity of my country to vindicate the national character.
Sivu 60 - See, what a grace was seated on this brow; Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself; An eye like Mars, to threaten and command; A station like the herald Mercury, New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill; A combination, and a form, indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man : This was your husband.
Sivu 116 - Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided ; they were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions.