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 oldal |
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ix. oldal
... harmony required , the other distinctions of the voice were more easily attained and if they were not , the pronunciation was infinitely less injured , than if every other distinction of the voice had been preserved , and this single ...
... harmony required , the other distinctions of the voice were more easily attained and if they were not , the pronunciation was infinitely less injured , than if every other distinction of the voice had been preserved , and this single ...
xiv. oldal
... Harmony of Prose 250 Harmony of Prosaick Inflections 255 Rules for reading Verse 262 Modulation of the Voice 286 Gesture 301 The Passions 308 Tranquillity , Cheerfulness 317 Mirth 318 Raillery 319 Sneer , Joy 320 Delight 322 Love 323 ...
... Harmony of Prose 250 Harmony of Prosaick Inflections 255 Rules for reading Verse 262 Modulation of the Voice 286 Gesture 301 The Passions 308 Tranquillity , Cheerfulness 317 Mirth 318 Raillery 319 Sneer , Joy 320 Delight 322 Love 323 ...
19. oldal
... harmony of language . But the business of this essay is not so much to construct a new system of punctuation , as to endeav- our to make the best use of that which is already established ; an attempt to reduce the whole doctrine of ...
... harmony of language . But the business of this essay is not so much to construct a new system of punctuation , as to endeav- our to make the best use of that which is already established ; an attempt to reduce the whole doctrine of ...
70. oldal
... harmony , which a good reader throws into composition , when he enters into the spirit of his author , and displays every part of it to advantage ? No , it may be answered , this is not attempted : but , because all this cannot be done ...
... harmony , which a good reader throws into composition , when he enters into the spirit of his author , and displays every part of it to advantage ? No , it may be answered , this is not attempted : but , because all this cannot be done ...
71. oldal
... harmony of a cadence , distin- guishes emphasis into its different kinds , and gives each kind its specifick and determinate meaning , may be as clearly conveyed upon paper , as either the pause , the accent , or the emphatick word ...
... harmony of a cadence , distin- guishes emphasis into its different kinds , and gives each kind its specifick and determinate meaning , may be as clearly conveyed upon paper , as either the pause , the accent , or the emphatick word ...
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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
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324. oldal - 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.
338. oldal - Seems, madam ! nay, it is ; I know not seems. 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black...
324. oldal - If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it: that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.
324. oldal - 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...
266. oldal - 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...
351. oldal - 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...
337. oldal - I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano ; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine a sad one.
295. oldal - 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...
362. oldal - 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...
338. oldal - 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...