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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17. oldal
... words , either taken ' separately , or in connection with each other ; but the pronunciation of words , connected into a sentence , seems very properly specified by elocution . Elocution , therefore , according to this definition of it ...
... words , either taken ' separately , or in connection with each other ; but the pronunciation of words , connected into a sentence , seems very properly specified by elocution . Elocution , therefore , according to this definition of it ...
27. oldal
... words , the sense is materially affected ; which evidently shews how necessary it is to good reading and speak- ing , to pause only between such words as admit of being separated ; and that it is not so much the number as the position ...
... words , the sense is materially affected ; which evidently shews how necessary it is to good reading and speak- ing , to pause only between such words as admit of being separated ; and that it is not so much the number as the position ...
29. oldal
... words , and omit it after the third . This gener- al practice can arise from nothing but the perception of the difference there is between those parts that compose the nominative plural , and those parts which compose the nominative and ...
... words , and omit it after the third . This gener- al practice can arise from nothing but the perception of the difference there is between those parts that compose the nominative plural , and those parts which compose the nominative and ...
31. oldal
... words that convey these ideas into such classes , or portions , as may be forcibly and easily pronounced ; for this reason , when the words , from their signification , re- quire to be distinctly pointed out , that is , to convey ...
... words that convey these ideas into such classes , or portions , as may be forcibly and easily pronounced ; for this reason , when the words , from their signification , re- quire to be distinctly pointed out , that is , to convey ...
32. oldal
... words as are more united than those that we do not separate . But it may be demanded , how shall we know the several degrees of union between words , so as to en- able us to divide them properly ? -To this it may be answered , that all ...
... words as are more united than those that we do not separate . But it may be demanded , how shall we know the several degrees of union between words , so as to en- able us to divide them properly ? -To this it may be answered , that all ...
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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...