A Rhetorical Grammar: In which Improprieties in Reading and Speaking are Detected, and the True Sources of Elegant Pronunciation are Pointed Out : with a Complete Analysis of the Voice, Showing Its Specific Modifications, and how They May be Applied to Different Species of Sentences and the Several Figures of Rhetoric : to which are Added Outlines of Composition, Or Plain Rules for Writing Orations and Speaking Them in PublicCummings and Hilliard, 1822 - 383 pagina's |
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Pagina xii
... sometimes at a loss for that conviction in the arguments of Cicero , which balanced , in the midst of convulsions , the tottering republic of Rome . This part of rhetoric , which consists in pronuncia- tion and action , and which may be ...
... sometimes at a loss for that conviction in the arguments of Cicero , which balanced , in the midst of convulsions , the tottering republic of Rome . This part of rhetoric , which consists in pronuncia- tion and action , and which may be ...
Pagina xiv
... sometimes united on the same syllable , or , as it may be called , in the same explosion of voice , and formed a compound turn , eith- er beginning with the upward and ending with the downward , or vice versa , and these compound turns ...
... sometimes united on the same syllable , or , as it may be called , in the same explosion of voice , and formed a compound turn , eith- er beginning with the upward and ending with the downward , or vice versa , and these compound turns ...
Pagina 18
... sometimes found in better company ; and that is , giving the u an obscure sound , which confounds it with vowels of a very different kind . Thus we not unfrequently hear singular , regular , and particular , pronounced as if written ...
... sometimes found in better company ; and that is , giving the u an obscure sound , which confounds it with vowels of a very different kind . Thus we not unfrequently hear singular , regular , and particular , pronounced as if written ...
Pagina 29
... feebly sounded in England , and partic- ularly in London , where it is sometimes entirely sunk ; and it may , perhaps , be worthy of observation , that provided we avoid a too forcible pronunciation of the 7 RHETORICAL GRAMMAR . 29.
... feebly sounded in England , and partic- ularly in London , where it is sometimes entirely sunk ; and it may , perhaps , be worthy of observation , that provided we avoid a too forcible pronunciation of the 7 RHETORICAL GRAMMAR . 29.
Pagina 32
... sometimes to con- found words of a very different meaning . The best method to rectify this is , to collect all the words of this description from a dictionary , and write them down ; and instead of the wh , to begin them with hoo in a ...
... sometimes to con- found words of a very different meaning . The best method to rectify this is , to collect all the words of this description from a dictionary , and write them down ; and instead of the wh , to begin them with hoo in a ...
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ablative absolute accent admit Anacoenosis arguments asyndeton attention beauty begins Cæsar cæsura called character Cicero circumflex Clodius comma common composition considered Demosthenes depends diphthong discourse distinct distinguished Elements of Elocution emphasis emphatic words endeavour example express falling inflection figure following sentence force former give higher tone honour Ibid idea inflection of voice instance interrogation interrogative words Julius Cæsar kind language latter likewise long pause loose sentence loud lower tone manner Mark Antony marked meaning Milo mind monotone nature necessary object observed orator ornament Paradise Lost particular passage passion perceive perfect sense period person phatical Pompey pronounced pronunciation proper punctuation question Quintilian reader reading reason requires rhetoric rising inflection rule says semicolon short pause slide sound speaker speaking Spect Spectator style syllable tence thing tion tone of voice variety verb verse virtue vowels whole writing
Populaire passages
Pagina 226 - And when the sun begins to fling His flaring beams, me, Goddess, bring To arched walks of twilight groves, And shadows brown that Sylvan loves Of pine, or monumental oak, Where the rude axe with heaved stroke Was never heard the Nymphs to daunt, Or fright them from their hallowed haunt.
Pagina 176 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen ; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Pagina 43 - O thou that, with surpassing glory crowned, Look'st from thy sole dominion like the god Of this new World — at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminished heads — to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 Sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy Sphere...
Pagina 172 - While from the bounded level of our mind Short views we take, nor see the lengths behind : But more...
Pagina 244 - Annual for me, the grape, the rose renew The juice nectareous, and the balmy dew; For me, the mine a thousand treasures brings; For me, health gushes from a thousand springs; Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise; My foot-stool earth, my canopy the skies.
Pagina 176 - All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good: And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right.
Pagina 177 - When the proud steed shall know why man restrains His fiery course, or drives him o'er the plains ; When the dull ox, why now he breaks the clod, Is now a victim, and now Egypt's god : Then shall man's pride and dulness comprehend His actions', passions', being's use and end ; Why doing, suffering, check'd, impell'd; and why This hour a slave, the next a deity.
Pagina 169 - Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky With hideous ruin and combustion down To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In adamantine* chains and penal fire, Who durst defy the Omnipotent to arms.
Pagina 242 - So cowardly ; and, but for these vile guns, He would himself have been a soldier.
Pagina 243 - tis true, this god did shake : His coward lips did from their colour fly, And that same eye whose bend doth awe the world Did lose his lustre : I did hear him groan : Ay, and that tongue of his that bade the Romans Mark him and write his speeches in their books, Alas, it cried ' Give me some drink, Titinius,