The American Elocutionist: Comprising "Lessons in Enunciation', "Exercises in Elocution", and "Rudiments of Gesture", with a Selection of New Pieces for Practice in Reading and Declamation... : Designed for Colleges, Professional Institutions, Academies and Common SchoolsJenks and Palmer, 1844 - 380 páginas |
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... light child , bind thyme , smite right , wild ice , slice tide , glide chyle , bile mind , find repine , consign resign , beguile smile , pile might , delight fire , desire concise , style chyme , lyre dryad . Same sound unaccented ...
... light child , bind thyme , smite right , wild ice , slice tide , glide chyle , bile mind , find repine , consign resign , beguile smile , pile might , delight fire , desire concise , style chyme , lyre dryad . Same sound unaccented ...
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... light and shade vanish ! In short , our souls are at present delightfully lost and bewildered in a pleasing delusion ; and we walk about like the enchanted hero in a romance , who sees beauti- ful castles , woods , and meadows ; and at ...
... light and shade vanish ! In short , our souls are at present delightfully lost and bewildered in a pleasing delusion ; and we walk about like the enchanted hero in a romance , who sees beauti- ful castles , woods , and meadows ; and at ...
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... light , And the lantern dimly burning . " Middle Notes . " My thoughts , I must confess , are turned on peace ; Already have our quarrels filled the world With widows and with orphans : Scythia mourns Our guilty wars ; and earth's ...
... light , And the lantern dimly burning . " Middle Notes . " My thoughts , I must confess , are turned on peace ; Already have our quarrels filled the world With widows and with orphans : Scythia mourns Our guilty wars ; and earth's ...
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... effect of the slide . Irony : Examples . " Oh ! you're well mêt ! The hoarded plague o ' the gods requite your love ! " Equivocal meaning , or pun : " Upon this , the weights , who had never been accused of light con- INFLECTION . 91.
... effect of the slide . Irony : Examples . " Oh ! you're well mêt ! The hoarded plague o ' the gods requite your love ! " Equivocal meaning , or pun : " Upon this , the weights , who had never been accused of light con- INFLECTION . 91.
Página 92
... light con- duct , used all their influence in urging the pendulum to proceed . " Peculiar significance : " Mark you his absolute shall ? -They chose their magistrate : And such a one as he , who puts his shâll , His popular shâll ...
... light con- duct , used all their influence in urging the pendulum to proceed . " Peculiar significance : " Mark you his absolute shall ? -They chose their magistrate : And such a one as he , who puts his shâll , His popular shâll ...
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accent action adapted Algebra appropriate Arithmetic articulation attention beautiful Boston Boston English cadence cæsura character circumflex commencing common common metre Dictionary diphthong distinct Edward Leavy effect elocution EMERSON'S emotion emphasis English English language enunciation errors example exer EXERCISE expression falling inflection fault feeling force forcible gesture give grace habit Hampden Sydney hand heart Heaven honour iambus instruction Ireland JENKS AND PALMER king language learner lesson liberty lord Lucca manner mind moderate movement Nashville University natural never o'er orthoepy Parley's pause Pecksniff peculiar phatic piece pitch poetry position produce pronounced pronunciation prose PUBLISHED BY JENKS pupils requires rising inflection rules Ruph SCHOOL BOOKS sentence sentiment slow sound South Carolina speaker speaking speech Spelling Book spondee style syllables teacher tence thee thou thought Tigg tion tone trochee unaccented utterance verse voice Walker's Worcester's words young
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Página 183 - On Linden, when the sun was low, All bloodless lay the untrodden snow ; And dark as winter was the flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly. But Linden saw another sight, When the drum beat at dead of night, Commanding fires of death to light The darkness of her scenery.
Página 99 - And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering : but unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect.
Página 180 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty, thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair; thyself how wondrous then ! Unspeakable, who sitt'st above these heavens, To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.
Página 184 - Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied, for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant* sung; Silence was pleased: now...
Página 189 - How fleet is a glance of the mind ! Compared with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-winged arrows of light When I think of my own native land In a moment I seem to be there; But alas! recollection at hand Soon hurries me back to despair.
Página 106 - Tis morn, but scarce yon level sun Can pierce the war-clouds, rolling dun, Where furious Frank and fiery Hun Shout in their sulphurous canopy. The combat deepens. On, ye brave, Who rush to glory, or the grave ! Wave, Munich ! all thy banners wave, And charge with all thy chivalry.
Página 75 - For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn. Or busy housewife ply her evening care; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share.
Página 196 - The bell strikes one. We take no note of time, But from its loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the, knell of my departed hours : Where are they?
Página 76 - And in thy right hand lead with thee, The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty; And if I give thee honour due, Mirth, admit me of thy crew To live with her, and live with thee, In unreproved pleasures free...
Página 158 - Wha will be a traitor knave ? Wha can fill a coward's grave ? Wha sae base as be a Slave ? Let him turn and flee ! Wha for Scotland's King and Law, Freedom's sword will strongly draw ; Free-man stand, or Free-man fa', Let him on wi