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 pagina's |
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Pagina xiv
... Prose 250 Harmony of Prosaick Inflections 255 Rules for reading Verse 262 Modulation of the Voice 286 Gesture 301 The Passions 308 Tranquillity , Cheerfulness 317 Mirth 318 Raillery 319 Sneer , Joy 320 Delight 322 Love 323 Pity 325 Hope ...
... Prose 250 Harmony of Prosaick Inflections 255 Rules for reading Verse 262 Modulation of the Voice 286 Gesture 301 The Passions 308 Tranquillity , Cheerfulness 317 Mirth 318 Raillery 319 Sneer , Joy 320 Delight 322 Love 323 Pity 325 Hope ...
Pagina 86
... emphatick sen- tences in prose will be the best for the learner to practise upon , in order to acquire an idea of the difference of inflection : constantly observing to pro- long and drawl out the pronunciation of the word , 86 ELEMENTS OF.
... emphatick sen- tences in prose will be the best for the learner to practise upon , in order to acquire an idea of the difference of inflection : constantly observing to pro- long and drawl out the pronunciation of the word , 86 ELEMENTS OF.
Pagina 134
... prose . The reason of this , perhaps , may be , that , as poiry assumes so often the ornamental and the plaintive , where a distinct and emphatick enumeration is not so much the object as a noble or a tender one ; that expression which ...
... prose . The reason of this , perhaps , may be , that , as poiry assumes so often the ornamental and the plaintive , where a distinct and emphatick enumeration is not so much the object as a noble or a tender one ; that expression which ...
Pagina 158
... prose , and more particularly in this case , where the question loses all its force and vigour , unless pronounced with its specifick inflection : besides , when we consider that in pronouncing a whole subject to the best advantage ...
... prose , and more particularly in this case , where the question loses all its force and vigour , unless pronounced with its specifick inflection : besides , when we consider that in pronouncing a whole subject to the best advantage ...
Pagina 172
... prose , and often in poetry , too much care cannot be taken to read them in so dif- ferent a tone of voice from the rest of the sentence , as may keep them perfectly separate and distinct : this is not only to be done by lowering the ...
... prose , and often in poetry , too much care cannot be taken to read them in so dif- ferent a tone of voice from the rest of the sentence , as may keep them perfectly separate and distinct : this is not only to be done by lowering the ...
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Elements of Elocution: In which the Principles of Reading and Speaking are ... John Walker Volledige weergave - 1815 |
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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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Pagina 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.
Pagina 338 - Seems, madam ! nay, it is ; I know not seems. 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black...
Pagina 324 - If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it: that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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...
Pagina 337 - I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano ; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine a sad one.
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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...