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... falling mark on a word , to give that word in a weak voice . Now , one may slide the voice to a great height , and yet not speak in a loud tone ; and to a great depth , and not speak in a weak or soft tone . It is as well , in the first ...
... falling mark on a word , to give that word in a weak voice . Now , one may slide the voice to a great height , and yet not speak in a loud tone ; and to a great depth , and not speak in a weak or soft tone . It is as well , in the first ...
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... before the falling slide a preparatory rise . DIRECTION 3. The slide takes place on the accented syllables . Beginners frequently violate this rule . TABLE OF INFLEXIONS . The acute accent ( ' ) 24 PRINCIPLES OF ELOCUTION .
... before the falling slide a preparatory rise . DIRECTION 3. The slide takes place on the accented syllables . Beginners frequently violate this rule . TABLE OF INFLEXIONS . The acute accent ( ' ) 24 PRINCIPLES OF ELOCUTION .
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... falling inflexion . Did he say háte , or hate ? He said hate , not háte . Did he say tréat , or treat ? He said treat , not treat . Did he say fíne , or fine ? Did he say nóte , or nòte ? Did he say flúte , or flùte ? Did he say cannot ...
... falling inflexion . Did he say háte , or hate ? He said hate , not háte . Did he say tréat , or treat ? He said treat , not treat . Did he say fíne , or fine ? Did he say nóte , or nòte ? Did he say flúte , or flùte ? Did he say cannot ...
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... falling hate is taken from the same height . After a little practice , the or , instead of being taken from the note on which the inflexion on the first hate terminates , may be taken from that where the inflexion commences : this is ...
... falling hate is taken from the same height . After a little practice , the or , instead of being taken from the note on which the inflexion on the first hate terminates , may be taken from that where the inflexion commences : this is ...
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... falling on the same syllable . The rising circumflex is marked thus V , the falling thus A. The first is used in irony , according to Mr Walker , but the second appears to me to be also used in irony . Take Mr Walker's own example ...
... falling on the same syllable . The rising circumflex is marked thus V , the falling thus A. The first is used in irony , according to Mr Walker , but the second appears to me to be also used in irony . Take Mr Walker's own example ...
Termos e frases comuns
accent adverbs army articulation beauty behold betwixt blót bosom breast breath cadence called circumflex clause clouds consonant dark death deep Demosthenes earth elocution emphasis emphatic word expressed eyes falling inflexion father fear feel force frequently friends give given glory glottis hand happy hath hear heard heart heaven helmet of Navarre honour hope human human voice Ivanhoe king labour Lady G light lips live look Lord loud marked measure ment mind minor third MODULATION mouth nature never night o'er passion pause Pompey pronounced pronunciation pupil question asked rising inflexion rising slide round rule Samian wine scene sense senseless things simple series sleep smile soft soul sound speaker speaking speech stars sweet swell syllable tears termination thee thing thou thought tion tone tongue Twas verb voice vowel Walker wild wind
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Página 117 - Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of Fate, All but the page prescrib'd, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know : Or who could suffer Being here below? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy Reason, would he skip and play? Pleas'd to the last, he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.
Página 332 - Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve in Beauty's circle proudly gay, The midnight brought the signal-sound of strife, The morn the marshalling in arms, — the day Battle's magnificently stern array...
Página 216 - And God set them in the firmament of heaven to give light upon the earth, And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
Página 100 - Or hear'st thou rather, pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell ? Before the sun, Before the heavens thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle, didst invest The rising world of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite.
Página 154 - The hunter's call, to Faun and Dryad known ; The oak-crowned sisters, and their chaste-eyed queen, Satyrs and sylvan boys were seen Peeping from forth their alleys green ; Brown Exercise rejoiced to hear, And Sport leaped up, and seized his beechen spear.
Página 77 - Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Página 123 - I BRING fresh showers for the thirsting flowers From the seas and the streams. I bear light shade for the leaves when laid In their noon-day dreams. From my wings are shaken the dews that waken The sweet buds every one, When rocked to rest on their mother's breast, As she dances about the sun.
Página 98 - An ebon mass : methinks thou piercest it, As with a wedge ! But when I look again, It is thine own calm home, thy crystal shrine, Thy habitation from eternity ! 0 dread and silent Mount ! I gazed upon thee, Till thou, still present to the bodily sense, Didst vanish from my thought : entranced in prayer 1 worshipped the Invisible alone.
Página 292 - It must be so — Plato, thou reasonest well ; Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought ? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? Tis the divinity that stirs within us ; 'Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man...
Página 152 - WHEN Music, heavenly maid, was young, While yet in early Greece she sung, The Passions oft, to hear her shell, Thronged around her magic cell...