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... variety , and ease ; and agreeably to this definition , good reading or speaking may be con- sidered as that species of delivery which not only expresses the sense of the words so as barely to be understood , but at the same time gives ...
... variety , and ease ; and agreeably to this definition , good reading or speaking may be con- sidered as that species of delivery which not only expresses the sense of the words so as barely to be understood , but at the same time gives ...
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... variety of passages to which they are applied . The points used by grammarians are the Comma , the Semicolon , the Colon , and the Period . The Comma represents the shortest pause ; the Semi- colon a pause double that of the Comma ; the ...
... variety of passages to which they are applied . The points used by grammarians are the Comma , the Semicolon , the Colon , and the Period . The Comma represents the shortest pause ; the Semi- colon a pause double that of the Comma ; the ...
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... variety of passion , but it must do either one or the other ; other- wise the sound would degenerate into monotone or song . These slides or inflections , which the voice makes in pronouncing words , are two , the rising and the falling ...
... variety of passion , but it must do either one or the other ; other- wise the sound would degenerate into monotone or song . These slides or inflections , which the voice makes in pronouncing words , are two , the rising and the falling ...
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... variety of inflection than what is prescribed in the above rules , and afterwards with that variety , which melody and good reading require . They are wedded to opinions , full of contradiction and impossibility , and at the same time ...
... variety of inflection than what is prescribed in the above rules , and afterwards with that variety , which melody and good reading require . They are wedded to opinions , full of contradiction and impossibility , and at the same time ...
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... variety . We often hear a man described as being a very monotonous reader ; and the meaning of this is , that he pronounces every sentence not only in the same pitch of voice , and with the same degree of force , but with a constant ...
... variety . We often hear a man described as being a very monotonous reader ; and the meaning of this is , that he pronounces every sentence not only in the same pitch of voice , and with the same degree of force , but with a constant ...
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accident of speech acquire action ÆNEID antithesis audience beginning cadence Cæsar cæsura called circumflex clause commencing series common common metre compound series Concluding Crotchet degree delivery discourse distinction Elocution emphasis of force emphasis of sense emphatic word endeavour English example expressed Fair Penitent falling inflection flection following lines following passage following sentence give GOWER STREET graces Grammar Greek heavy syllable human voice Interlinear Translation language Latin latter LL.D loud manner marked melody ment metre mind musical scale nature necessary observed organic emphasis passion perceive phasis phatic pitch pleasures poetry PROFESSOR pronounced pronunciation prose quantity Quaver reader reading and speaking require the rising rhythmus rising inflection rule simple series soft sound speaker spoken style syllabic emphasis taste tence thee thing thou hast tion triple triple metre variety verb verse XENOPHON
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Página 162 - What man dare, I dare: Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear, The arm'd rhinoceros, or the Hyrcan tiger; Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves Shall never tremble...
Página 114 - Let it pry through the portage of the head Like the brass cannon; let the brow o'erwhelm it As fearfully as doth a galled rock O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean.
Página 123 - Go to now, ye that say, To-day or to-morrow we will go into such a city and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain : whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life ? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
Página 148 - His lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed : Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury.
Página 110 - And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye ' Or how wilt thou (Say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye : and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
Página 45 - His spear, — to equal which, the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand...
Página 148 - Then he which had received the one talent came and said, Lord, I knew thee that thou art an hard man, reaping where thou hast not sown, and gathering where thou hast not strawed : and I was afraid, and went and hid thy talent in the earth : lo, there thou hast that is thine.
Página 42 - But can we believe a thinking being that is in a perpetual progress of improvements, and travelling on from perfection to perfection, after having just looked abroad into the works of its Creator, and made a few discoveries of his infinite goodness, wisdom, and power, must perish at her first setting out, and in the very beginning of her inquiries ? A man, considered in his present state, seems only sent into the world to propagate his kind.
Página 113 - AWAKE, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city : for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean. Shake thyself from the dust ; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem : loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion.
Página 115 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.