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 ii
... speak and read with tolerable fluency ? Is it not notorious that our early habits of utterance , be they good or bad , generally last through life , and that defects , casually acquired , are confirmed rather than removed by length of ...
... speak and read with tolerable fluency ? Is it not notorious that our early habits of utterance , be they good or bad , generally last through life , and that defects , casually acquired , are confirmed rather than removed by length of ...
Sivu iv
... periods of oratory , delivered as they should be , but there is one mode of modulating sentences for discourse , another for reading and for studied speaking ; the cantus dicendi of the pulpit , the senate , and iv PREFACE .
... periods of oratory , delivered as they should be , but there is one mode of modulating sentences for discourse , another for reading and for studied speaking ; the cantus dicendi of the pulpit , the senate , and iv PREFACE .
Sivu xi
... 69 74 77 79 83 CHAPTER III . EXERCISES IN SPEAKING , FOR THE PURPOSE OF ACQUIR- ING A VARIED AND SUITABLE EXPRESSION . Preliminary Remarks ... 87 The Narrative , the Argumentative , and the Meditative manner CONTENTS . xi.
... 69 74 77 79 83 CHAPTER III . EXERCISES IN SPEAKING , FOR THE PURPOSE OF ACQUIR- ING A VARIED AND SUITABLE EXPRESSION . Preliminary Remarks ... 87 The Narrative , the Argumentative , and the Meditative manner CONTENTS . xi.
Sivu xiv
... .. CHAPTER IV . ...... 191 ACTING , SO FAR AS IT DIFFERS FROM SPEAKING , EXEM PLIFIED BY A FEW PIECES THAT ADMIT OF SLIGHT OR OCCASIONAL MIMICKRY . Preliminary Remarks 194 NO . SUBJECTS OF THE EXERCISES . +1 . The xiv . CONTENTS .
... .. CHAPTER IV . ...... 191 ACTING , SO FAR AS IT DIFFERS FROM SPEAKING , EXEM PLIFIED BY A FEW PIECES THAT ADMIT OF SLIGHT OR OCCASIONAL MIMICKRY . Preliminary Remarks 194 NO . SUBJECTS OF THE EXERCISES . +1 . The xiv . CONTENTS .
Sivu 1
... MECHANICAL READING , OR PRONUNCIATION . 2. SIGNIFICANT READING , OR READING STRICT- LY SO CALLED . 3. IMPASSIONED READING , OR SPEAKING . [ 4. Dramatic Reading , or Acting . ] B It will seldom be necessary to call the pupil's attention.
... MECHANICAL READING , OR PRONUNCIATION . 2. SIGNIFICANT READING , OR READING STRICT- LY SO CALLED . 3. IMPASSIONED READING , OR SPEAKING . [ 4. Dramatic Reading , or Acting . ] B It will seldom be necessary to call the pupil's attention.
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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.