The Practice of Elocution, Or A Course of Exercises for Acquiring the Several Requisites of a Good DeliveryJ. Richardson, 1826 - 213 Seiten |
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... improveable by discipline , surely the organs of speech may be taught to perform their office with greater pre- cision , force , and effect , than can possibly be acquired by chance , even allowing the best models ii PREFACE .
... improveable by discipline , surely the organs of speech may be taught to perform their office with greater pre- cision , force , and effect , than can possibly be acquired by chance , even allowing the best models ii PREFACE .
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... force to a Word , interfering with the Modulative Accents 44 Preliminary Remarks on Suspensive and Conclusive Accents 45 EXERCISE 4. Suspensive and Conclusive Accents EXERCISE 5. Suspensive and Conclusive Accents con- tinued 47 49 ...
... force to a Word , interfering with the Modulative Accents 44 Preliminary Remarks on Suspensive and Conclusive Accents 45 EXERCISE 4. Suspensive and Conclusive Accents EXERCISE 5. Suspensive and Conclusive Accents con- tinued 47 49 ...
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... force of Conclusive Emphasis ...... EXERCISE 14. Emphatic Accents introducing words or .......... clauses of a foreknown or implied meaning EXERCISE 15. The several means of emphasis variously applied . ...... 69 74 77 79 83 CHAPTER III ...
... force of Conclusive Emphasis ...... EXERCISE 14. Emphatic Accents introducing words or .......... clauses of a foreknown or implied meaning EXERCISE 15. The several means of emphasis variously applied . ...... 69 74 77 79 83 CHAPTER III ...
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... Forces in 1588. Eng . Hist . 176 63. Demosthenes to an Athenian Legislative Assembly 178 64. Lord Chatham to the British House of Peers ......... 181 65. Exordium of Cicero's Oration against Verres ...... 66. Exordium of Erskine's ...
... Forces in 1588. Eng . Hist . 176 63. Demosthenes to an Athenian Legislative Assembly 178 64. Lord Chatham to the British House of Peers ......... 181 65. Exordium of Cicero's Oration against Verres ...... 66. Exordium of Erskine's ...
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... force , taking especial care that those formed with voice are made distinct from their correspondent consonants with breath ; viz . that z is made as vocal as possible , and thus distinguished from s , which is an aspirate or breath ...
... force , taking especial care that those formed with voice are made distinct from their correspondent consonants with breath ; viz . that z is made as vocal as possible , and thus distinguished from s , which is an aspirate or breath ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Abraham Slender Anger ARGUMENTATIVE MANNER beauty blood breath Cæsar called clause clouds cohobate Conclusive Accents consonant coward Delight denote Disjunctive Accents downward accent dread ELOCUTION emphatic accent emphatic modulation extempo Exultation fair Falstaff father feeling Fenton force give hand happiness heard heart heaven honour Indignation Interrogative Words Justice Shallow letter live looks màn mány mark mastiff meaning MEDITATIVE MANNER merely modulative mind Modulative Accents Narrative manner nature o'er Open vowels palatal passions Pity plain modulation PLAINTIVE EXPRESSION Plaintive manner pleasures pride Prince Henry pronounced pupil rate of utterance reader reading relaxes rises Scorn sentence SHAKSPEARE shut sounds slides Solemnity soul speak speaker Spithridates Suspensive and Conclusive sweet syllable tale of tale tences thee thing thou thought Tom Long tone triphthong unaccented syllables upward Vehemence VEHEMENT EXPRESSION virtue voice VOICE CONSONANTS words youth
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 85 - And will, no doubt, with reasons answer you. I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts : I am no orator, as Brutus is ; But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man...
Seite 82 - When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening
Seite 196 - With eyes severe and beard of formal cut, Full of wise saws and modern instances; And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon.
Seite 116 - The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places : how are the mighty fallen ! Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon ; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.
Seite 82 - Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower...
Seite 93 - Why has not man a microscopic eye ? For this plain reason, man is not a fly.
Seite 80 - And there came a traveller unto the rich man, and he spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd, to dress for the wayfaring man that was come unto him; but took the poor man's lamb, and dressed it for the man that was come to him.
Seite 182 - I call upon the honour of your lordships to reverence the dignity of your ancestors, and to maintain your own. I call upon the spirit and humanity of my country to vindicate the national character.
Seite 60 - See, what a grace was seated on this brow; Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself; An eye like Mars, to threaten and command; A station like the herald Mercury, New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill; A combination, and a form, indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man : This was your husband.
Seite 116 - Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided ; they were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions.