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 strán (strany) |
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Strana ix
... commenced my system ; infinite were the difficulties and obscurities that impeded my progress at first ; but perseverance , and , perhaps , enthusiasm , at last brought it to a period . Without any breach of modesty , it may be asserted ...
... commenced my system ; infinite were the difficulties and obscurities that impeded my progress at first ; but perseverance , and , perhaps , enthusiasm , at last brought it to a period . Without any breach of modesty , it may be asserted ...
Strana 46
... commence with conjunctions that correspond with each other , they are sufficiently distinguishable ; as in the following sentence : As we cannot discern the shadow moving along the dial- plate , so the advances we make in knowledge are ...
... commence with conjunctions that correspond with each other , they are sufficiently distinguishable ; as in the following sentence : As we cannot discern the shadow moving along the dial- plate , so the advances we make in knowledge are ...
Strana 71
... commence ; the latter being at rest for some given time in one precise note . * Smith's Harmonicks , p . 3. Note ( c ) The continual motion of speaking sounds makes it almost as ELOCUTION . 71 Of the two simple Inflections of the Voice.
... commence ; the latter being at rest for some given time in one precise note . * Smith's Harmonicks , p . 3. Note ( c ) The continual motion of speaking sounds makes it almost as ELOCUTION . 71 Of the two simple Inflections of the Voice.
Strana 85
... commencing point ; we shall find that as this dif- ference is not easily ascertained , so , in an outline of this kind , it is of no great consequence : the rising or falling of the slide , in a greater or a less degree , does not ...
... commencing point ; we shall find that as this dif- ference is not easily ascertained , so , in an outline of this kind , it is of no great consequence : the rising or falling of the slide , in a greater or a less degree , does not ...
Strana 93
... commencing with as , and the last with so as the first member of the first sentence is simple , it is marked with a comma only at dial - plate ; as the second is compounded , it is marked with a semicolon at moving ; and as the last is ...
... commencing with as , and the last with so as the first member of the first sentence is simple , it is marked with a comma only at dial - plate ; as the second is compounded , it is marked with a semicolon at moving ; and as the last is ...
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Elements of Elocution: In which the Principles of Reading and Speaking are ... John Walker Úplné zobrazenie - 1815 |
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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
Populárne pasáže
Strana 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.
Strana 338 - Seems, madam ! nay, it is ; I know not seems. 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black...
Strana 324 - If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it: that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.
Strana 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...
Strana 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...
Strana 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...
Strana 337 - I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano ; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine a sad one.
Strana 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...
Strana 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...
Strana 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...