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 Seiten |
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... instance of this , in the Specta- tor , No. 86 : " Every one that speaks and reasons , " is a grammarian and a logician , though he may be " utterly unacquainted with the rules of grammar or logick as they are delivered in books and ...
... instance of this , in the Specta- tor , No. 86 : " Every one that speaks and reasons , " is a grammarian and a logician , though he may be " utterly unacquainted with the rules of grammar or logick as they are delivered in books and ...
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... instance , the first member , Every one that speaks and reasons , is a grammarian and a logician ; does not intend to af firm a fact which might be understood as descriptive of the state of man , either with or without the attain- ments ...
... instance , the first member , Every one that speaks and reasons , is a grammarian and a logician ; does not intend to af firm a fact which might be understood as descriptive of the state of man , either with or without the attain- ments ...
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... instance ? Evidently from hence : the nominative con- sists of three particulars , which , though distinguished from each other by pauses , form but one nominative plural , and are more connected with each other than with the verb they ...
... instance ? Evidently from hence : the nominative con- sists of three particulars , which , though distinguished from each other by pauses , form but one nominative plural , and are more connected with each other than with the verb they ...
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... instances , among a thousand that might be brought , to shew where this is the case . I must therefore desire the reader to remember that , by the pleasures of the imagination , I mean only such pleasures as arise originally from sight ...
... instances , among a thousand that might be brought , to shew where this is the case . I must therefore desire the reader to remember that , by the pleasures of the imagination , I mean only such pleasures as arise originally from sight ...
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... instance ; and impossible , with the note of admiration , the falling : The comma , or that suspension of voice generally annexed to it , which marks a continuation of the sense , is most fre- quently accompanied by the rising ...
... instance ; and impossible , with the note of admiration , the falling : The comma , or that suspension of voice generally annexed to it , which marks a continuation of the sense , is most fre- quently accompanied by the rising ...
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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
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 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.
Seite 338 - Seems, madam ! nay, it is ; I know not seems. 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black...
Seite 324 - If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it: that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.
Seite 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...
Seite 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...
Seite 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...
Seite 337 - I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano ; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine a sad one.
Seite 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...
Seite 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...
Seite 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...