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 páginas |
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Página ix
... less injured , than if every other distinction of the voice had been preserved , and this single one . neglected . Here then commenced my system ; infinite were the difficulties and obscurities that impeded my progress at first ; but ...
... less injured , than if every other distinction of the voice had been preserved , and this single one . neglected . Here then commenced my system ; infinite were the difficulties and obscurities that impeded my progress at first ; but ...
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... less than two combinations of them : and that they were real circumflexes ; the one beginning with the rising inflection , and ending with the falling upon the same syllable ; and the other beginning with the falling , and ending with ...
... less than two combinations of them : and that they were real circumflexes ; the one beginning with the rising inflection , and ending with the falling upon the same syllable ; and the other beginning with the falling , and ending with ...
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... less separable . Nay , we find the substantive verb , by the most scrupulous grammarians , constant- ly separated from its preceding noun by a comma , whenever the noun is joined to any considerable number of less separable words ...
... less separable . Nay , we find the substantive verb , by the most scrupulous grammarians , constant- ly separated from its preceding noun by a comma , whenever the noun is joined to any considerable number of less separable words ...
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... less on the pause than on the inflexion of voice we adopt ; and that , provided we pause in the proper place , and preserve the proper tone and inflexion of the voice , the sense runs no risk on account of the multiplicity or dura- tion ...
... less on the pause than on the inflexion of voice we adopt ; and that , provided we pause in the proper place , and preserve the proper tone and inflexion of the voice , the sense runs no risk on account of the multiplicity or dura- tion ...
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... less inti- mate connection of the parts , or the concurrence of the parts to the plenitude of a total sense . Sentences thus defined and distinguished into their several kinds , we shall be better enabled to give such rules for dividing ...
... less inti- mate connection of the parts , or the concurrence of the parts to the plenitude of a total sense . Sentences thus defined and distinguished into their several kinds , we shall be better enabled to give such rules for dividing ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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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Página 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.
Página 338 - Seems, madam ! nay, it is ; I know not seems. 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black...
Página 324 - If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it: that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 337 - I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano ; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine a sad one.
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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...