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 страници |
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... necessarily exist . First , if there was no turn or inflec- tion of the voice , it must continue in a monotone . Second- ly , if the voice was inflected , it must be either upwards or downwards , and so produce either the rising or ...
... necessarily exist . First , if there was no turn or inflec- tion of the voice , it must continue in a monotone . Second- ly , if the voice was inflected , it must be either upwards or downwards , and so produce either the rising or ...
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... of the different kind of connection that subsists between parts which are only occasionally united , and those which are necessarily united ; thus in the following sen- tence : Riches , pleasure , and health become evils 28 ELEMENTS OF.
... of the different kind of connection that subsists between parts which are only occasionally united , and those which are necessarily united ; thus in the following sen- tence : Riches , pleasure , and health become evils 28 ELEMENTS OF.
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... necessarily more united with each other than with those they modify , form the smaller classes of words . Upon these principles we may divide the sentence last quoted ; and upon the same principles we may account for the division of the ...
... necessarily more united with each other than with those they modify , form the smaller classes of words . Upon these principles we may divide the sentence last quoted ; and upon the same principles we may account for the division of the ...
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... necessarily referred to it . If it be demanded , why , in the former sentence , A violent and ungovernable passion for praise pro- duces , & c . we cannot pause both at passion and praise ? it may be answered , that as the words for ...
... necessarily referred to it . If it be demanded , why , in the former sentence , A violent and ungovernable passion for praise pro- duces , & c . we cannot pause both at passion and praise ? it may be answered , that as the words for ...
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... necessarily , and what are not necessarily connected . In the first place we may observe , that it is not the perfect sense , formed by the preceding members , that determines a sen- tence to be loose : because succeeding members may be ...
... necessarily , and what are not necessarily connected . In the first place we may observe , that it is not the perfect sense , formed by the preceding members , that determines a sen- tence to be loose : because succeeding members may be ...
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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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Страница 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.
Страница 338 - Seems, madam ! nay, it is ; I know not seems. 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black...
Страница 324 - If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it: that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.
Страница 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...
Страница 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...
Страница 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...
Страница 337 - I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano ; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine a sad one.
Страница 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...
Страница 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...
Страница 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...