A Rhetorical Grammar: In which Improprieties in Reading and Speaking are Detected, and the True Sources of Elegant Pronunciation are Pointed Out : with a Complete Analysis of the Voice, Showing Its Specific Modifications, and how They May be Applied to Different Species of Sentences and the Several Figures of Rhetoric : to which are Added Outlines of Composition, Or Plain Rules for Writing Orations and Speaking Them in PublicCummings and Hilliard, 1822 - 383 Seiten |
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... consists in pronuncia- tion and action , and which may be called the soul of oratory , is , from its very nature , less capable of being communicated by writing , and has therefore been less improved by the joint labours of succeeding ...
... consists in pronuncia- tion and action , and which may be called the soul of oratory , is , from its very nature , less capable of being communicated by writing , and has therefore been less improved by the joint labours of succeeding ...
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... consist of such minute steps , are only perceivable by the distance gone over . Here the sentence being divided into two equal parts , and those compounded , since they include others , we separate the former by a semicolon , and the ...
... consist of such minute steps , are only perceivable by the distance gone over . Here the sentence being divided into two equal parts , and those compounded , since they include others , we separate the former by a semicolon , and the ...
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... consisting of several classes of words , requires a pause after the verb , to distinguish it from the regimen , and a pause at discouragement , to distin- guish the class which forms the former part of the regimen from the latter ; and ...
... consisting of several classes of words , requires a pause after the verb , to distinguish it from the regimen , and a pause at discouragement , to distin- guish the class which forms the former part of the regimen from the latter ; and ...
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... consisting of two parts , which form the regimen of the verb , must have a pause at have , and another at country , in order to distinguish the verb from the regimen , and the parts of the regimen from each other . It must not be ...
... consisting of two parts , which form the regimen of the verb , must have a pause at have , and another at country , in order to distinguish the verb from the regimen , and the parts of the regimen from each other . It must not be ...
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... consists of two princi- pal constructive parts , between which parts the great- er pause must be inserted : when these parts commence with conjunctions that correspond with each other , they are sufficiently distinguishable ; as in the ...
... consists of two princi- pal constructive parts , between which parts the great- er pause must be inserted : when these parts commence with conjunctions that correspond with each other , they are sufficiently distinguishable ; as in the ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
ablative absolute accent admit Anacoenosis arguments asyndeton attention beauty begins Cæsar cæsura called character Cicero circumflex Clodius comma common composition considered Demosthenes depends diphthong discourse distinct distinguished Elements of Elocution emphasis emphatic words endeavour example express falling inflection figure following sentence force former give higher tone honour Ibid idea inflection of voice instance interrogation interrogative words Julius Cæsar kind language latter likewise long pause loose sentence loud lower tone manner Mark Antony marked meaning Milo mind monotone nature necessary object observed orator ornament Paradise Lost particular passage passion perceive perfect sense period person phatical Pompey pronounced pronunciation proper punctuation question Quintilian reader reading reason requires rhetoric rising inflection rule says semicolon short pause slide sound speaker speaking Spect Spectator style syllable tence thing tion tone of voice variety verb verse virtue vowels whole writing
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 226 - And when the sun begins to fling His flaring beams, me, Goddess, bring To arched walks of twilight groves, And shadows brown that Sylvan loves Of pine, or monumental oak, Where the rude axe with heaved stroke Was never heard the Nymphs to daunt, Or fright them from their hallowed haunt.
Seite 176 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen ; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Seite 43 - O thou that, with surpassing glory crowned, Look'st from thy sole dominion like the god Of this new World — at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminished heads — to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 Sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy Sphere...
Seite 172 - While from the bounded level of our mind Short views we take, nor see the lengths behind : But more...
Seite 244 - Annual for me, the grape, the rose renew The juice nectareous, and the balmy dew; For me, the mine a thousand treasures brings; For me, health gushes from a thousand springs; Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise; My foot-stool earth, my canopy the skies.
Seite 176 - All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good: And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right.
Seite 177 - When the proud steed shall know why man restrains His fiery course, or drives him o'er the plains ; When the dull ox, why now he breaks the clod, Is now a victim, and now Egypt's god : Then shall man's pride and dulness comprehend His actions', passions', being's use and end ; Why doing, suffering, check'd, impell'd; and why This hour a slave, the next a deity.
Seite 169 - Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky With hideous ruin and combustion down To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In adamantine* chains and penal fire, Who durst defy the Omnipotent to arms.
Seite 242 - So cowardly ; and, but for these vile guns, He would himself have been a soldier.
Seite 243 - tis true, this god did shake : His coward lips did from their colour fly, And that same eye whose bend doth awe the world Did lose his lustre : I did hear him groan : Ay, and that tongue of his that bade the Romans Mark him and write his speeches in their books, Alas, it cried ' Give me some drink, Titinius,