Willson's Intermediate Fifth Reader: On the Original Plan of the School and Family Series; Embracing, in Brief, the Principles of Rhetoric, Criticism, Eloquence, and Oratory, as Applied to Both Prose and Poetry. The Whole Adapted to Elocutionary InstructionHarper & brothers, 1870 - 372 páginas |
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... opposite of a simple style - is one that is given to false show - a pretentious style . It is a style that makes great pretensions , with but few corresponding results . A Florid style is one in which there is great. The Cathedral at Milan.
... opposite of a simple style - is one that is given to false show - a pretentious style . It is a style that makes great pretensions , with but few corresponding results . A Florid style is one in which there is great. The Cathedral at Milan.
Página xii
... given to syllables . Thus the syllable pit is incapable of receiving the same quantity of sound that can be given to the syllable rōll ; yet xii . ELEMENTARY ELOCUTIONARY TREATISE . Barbara Frietchie.
... given to syllables . Thus the syllable pit is incapable of receiving the same quantity of sound that can be given to the syllable rōll ; yet xii . ELEMENTARY ELOCUTIONARY TREATISE . Barbara Frietchie.
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... given to the syllable rōll ; yet either may be pronounced with greater or less volume or prolongation of sound , without varying the degree of force . Quantity is increased both by Force and Time . FORCE gives increased loudness to ...
... given to the syllable rōll ; yet either may be pronounced with greater or less volume or prolongation of sound , without varying the degree of force . Quantity is increased both by Force and Time . FORCE gives increased loudness to ...
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... given in a careless or indifferent manner , or in a tone of slight disrespect , take the rising inflection in all cases . EXAMPLES . Did you see William ' ? I did ' .- What did he say to you ' ? Not much ' . See , also , Lesson II . , p ...
... given in a careless or indifferent manner , or in a tone of slight disrespect , take the rising inflection in all cases . EXAMPLES . Did you see William ' ? I did ' .- What did he say to you ' ? Not much ' . See , also , Lesson II . , p ...
Página xviii
... given to the proper name . Thus , " Where are yon going ' , William ' ? " " What did he say ' , John ' ? " This is no deviation from the Rule ; but it illustrates both Rules II . and III . , in- asmuch as the question properly ends ...
... given to the proper name . Thus , " Where are yon going ' , William ' ? " " What did he say ' , John ' ? " This is no deviation from the Rule ; but it illustrates both Rules II . and III . , in- asmuch as the question properly ends ...
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Página 361 - And nightly to the list'ning earth Repeats the story of her birth : Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Página 285 - When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last time, the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood ! Let their last, feeble, and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic, now known and honored throughout the earth, still full high advanced...
Página 101 - Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more ? Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth his promise fail for evermore? Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies?
Página 79 - ... for expert men can execute and perhaps judge of particulars one by one, but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned.
Página 243 - Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace, With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards, his design Moves like a ghost. Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear The very stones prate of my whereabout, And take the present horror from the time, Which now suits with it.
Página 285 - I have not allowed myself, sir, to look beyond the Union, to see what might lie hidden in the dark recess behind. I have not coolly weighed the chances of preserving liberty when the bonds that unite us together shall be broken asunder. I have not accustomed myself to hang over the precipice of disunion, to see whether, with my short sight, I can fathom the depth of the abyss below...
Página 233 - tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune Or to take arms against a sea of troubles And by opposing end them ? To die to sleep No more and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished.
Página 251 - O sweet and far from cliff and scar The horns of Elfland faintly blowing ! Blow, let us hear the purple glens replying : Blow, bugle ; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.
Página 182 - And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth : so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered.
Página 168 - Now his elder son was in the field; and as he came and drew nigh to the house, he heard music and dancing.