Lessons in Elocution, Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse: For the Improvement of Youth in Reading and SpeakingHill and Moore, 1820 - 384 páginas |
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... able to alter the height , as well as the strength and the tone of his voice , as occasion requires . Different species of speaking require different heights of voice . Nature in- structs us to relate a story , to support an argument ...
... able to alter the height , as well as the strength and the tone of his voice , as occasion requires . Different species of speaking require different heights of voice . Nature in- structs us to relate a story , to support an argument ...
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... able with a mere glance of the eye , to read any piece with good emphasis and good discretion . It is another office of emphasis to express the oppositio between the several parts of a sentence where the style 50 AN ESSAY ON.
... able with a mere glance of the eye , to read any piece with good emphasis and good discretion . It is another office of emphasis to express the oppositio between the several parts of a sentence where the style 50 AN ESSAY ON.
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... able to fall his voice with propriety and judgment at the close of a sentence , he must be able to keep it from falling , and raise it with all the variation which the sense requires . The best method of correcting a uniform cadence is ...
... able to fall his voice with propriety and judgment at the close of a sentence , he must be able to keep it from falling , and raise it with all the variation which the sense requires . The best method of correcting a uniform cadence is ...
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... able ; it may require much patience and resolution ; but it is the only way to succeed . For if a man cannot read simple sentences , or plain narrative , or didactic pieces , with distinct articulation , just emphasis , and proper tones ...
... able ; it may require much patience and resolution ; but it is the only way to succeed . For if a man cannot read simple sentences , or plain narrative , or didactic pieces , with distinct articulation , just emphasis , and proper tones ...
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... well acquaint- ed with their discourse as to be able with a single glance of the eye , to take in several clauses , or the whole of a sentence . PART I. LESSONS IN READING . SECTION I. SELECT SENTENCES 56 AN ESSAY ON ELOCUTION .
... well acquaint- ed with their discourse as to be able with a single glance of the eye , to take in several clauses , or the whole of a sentence . PART I. LESSONS IN READING . SECTION I. SELECT SENTENCES 56 AN ESSAY ON ELOCUTION .
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Página 258 - Seasons return—but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks or herds, or human face divine; But cloud instead, and ever during dark' Surround me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the
Página 354 - a long farewell to all my greatness! This is the state of man ; to day he puts forth. The tender leaves of hope \ tomorrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him 5 The third day conies a frost, a killing frost, And when he thinks, good easy man, full
Página 365 - Pray you avoid it. Be not too tame, neither; but let your own discretion be your tutor. Suit the action to the word, the word to the action! with this special observance, that you o'er step not the modesty of nature ; for any thing so overdone is from the purpose of
Página 384 - 1 I am no orator, as Brutus is ; But, as you know me all, a plain, blunt man, That love my friend—and that they know full well, That gave me public leave to speak of him .' For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor power of speech, To stir men's
Página 407 - means, warmed and cooled by the same summer and winter, as a Christian is ? •If you prick us, do we not bleed ? If you tickle us, do we not laugh ? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? If we
Página 376 - untried being, Through what new scenes and changes must we pass ! The wide, th' unbounded prospect lies before me ; But shadows, clouds and darkness rest upon it. Here will I hold. If there's a Power above us, (And that there is, all nature cries aloud Through all her works) be mus,t delight in virtue; And
Página 236 - mansion, skill'd to rule, The village master taught his little school. A man severe he was, and stern to view; I knew him well, and every truant knew. , Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace • * The day's disasters in his morning face: 'Full well they laugh'd, and counterfeited glee, At all
Página 250 - him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere; Heaven did a recompense as largely send. He gave to mis'ry all he had—a tear; He gain'd from heaven ('twas all he wish'd)— a friend. . . No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties
Página 390 - not enough no harshness gives ofience ; 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 reek's vast weight to
Página 250 - Grav'd on the stone beneath yon aged thorn. THE EPITAPH. HERE rests his head upon the lap of earth, A youth to fortune and to fame unknown : Fair Science frown'd not on his humble birth, And Melancholy rnark'd him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere; Heaven did a recompense as largely send.