A Grammar of Elocution: Containing the Principles of the Arts of Reading and Speaking : Illustrated by Appropriate Exercises and Examples : Adapted to Colleges, Schools, and Private Instruction, the Whole Arranged in the Order in which it is Taught in Harvard UniversityA.H. Maltby, 1832 - 346 páginas |
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... importance of the subject of which it treats , and II . by the manner in which that subject is treated . I. As respects the importance of delivery , I shall offer an argument , which I consider as conclusive . It is found- ed on the ...
... importance of the subject of which it treats , and II . by the manner in which that subject is treated . I. As respects the importance of delivery , I shall offer an argument , which I consider as conclusive . It is found- ed on the ...
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... importance of delivery , is strongly dis- closed in their history . I will not dwell on the case of Demosthenes , with his half shaven head , his cave , and his practice on the sea shore , though they are an emphatic record of his ...
... importance of delivery , is strongly dis- closed in their history . I will not dwell on the case of Demosthenes , with his half shaven head , his cave , and his practice on the sea shore , though they are an emphatic record of his ...
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... importance of their studies ? Look at their sublime devotion to their pursuit . Had they formed mistaken notions of their art ? Their unrivalled suc- cess in it , is the best answer to the question . Is it possible that they could throw ...
... importance of their studies ? Look at their sublime devotion to their pursuit . Had they formed mistaken notions of their art ? Their unrivalled suc- cess in it , is the best answer to the question . Is it possible that they could throw ...
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... importance to speak with correctness , ease and impressiveness ; or who , if not able to do so , must not , sometimes , painfully feel the disadvantages arising from the deficiency . Hereafter , young gentlemen of America , some of you ...
... importance to speak with correctness , ease and impressiveness ; or who , if not able to do so , must not , sometimes , painfully feel the disadvantages arising from the deficiency . Hereafter , young gentlemen of America , some of you ...
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... general are ignorant of their existence , as single specific sounds . I add another tes- timony to the importance of exercise on the elementary sounds . " When the elements are pronounced singly , they may ARTICULATION . 21.
... general are ignorant of their existence , as single specific sounds . I add another tes- timony to the importance of exercise on the elementary sounds . " When the elements are pronounced singly , they may ARTICULATION . 21.
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accented agreeable articulation aspiration Brutus cadence Cæsar called ceived cern concrete consonant degree delivery described diatonic scale discourse discrete downward slide earth effect Elocution Elocutionist emphasis employed equal wave example exercise expression extended quantity falling ditone falling slide fifth force forcible give Harfleur hast hath heard heart heaven high note Human Voice intervals light long quantity Lord marked marked radical measure median stress ments monotony natural o'er octave pauses percussion persons plaintive practice prolonged pronounced pronunciation prosody public speaking quire racter radical pitch radical stress rise and fall rising slide semitone sentence short soul speak speaker speech student sylla syllables TABLE OF CONSONANT TABLE OF VOWEL thee thine thing third thou art thought throne tion tone unequal wave unto utterance vanish vocal voice vowel elements vowel sounds words Δ Δ Δ ΙΔ
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Página 164 - British earth, that the ground on which he treads is holy, and consecrated by the genius of universal emancipation. No matter in what language his doom may have been pronounced; no matter what complexion incompatible with freedom, an Indian or an African sun may have burnt upon him; no matter in what disastrous battle his liberty may have been cloven down; no matter with what solemnities he may have been devoted upon the...
Página 135 - Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain, Here earth and water, seem to strive again ; Not chaos-like together crushed and bruised, But as the world harmoniously confused: Where order in variety we see, And where, though all things differ, all agree.
Página 149 - Love framed with Mirth a gay fantastic round: Loose were her tresses seen, her zone unbound ; And he, amidst his frolic play, As if he would the charming air repay, Shook thousand odors from his dewy wings.
Página 113 - Hovered thy spirit o'er thy sorrowing son, Wretch even then, life's journey just begun ? Perhaps thou gavest me, though unfelt, a kiss ; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss ; Ah, that maternal smile, it answers yes...
Página 153 - Shylock, we would have moneys : ' you say so ; You, that did void your rheum upon my beard And foot me as you spurn a stranger cur Over your threshold : moneys is your suit. What should I say to you ? Should I not say ' Hath a dog money ? is it possible A cur can lend three thousand ducats...
Página 177 - I conjure you, by that which you profess, Howe'er you come to know it, answer me: Though you untie the winds and let them fight Against the churches; though the yesty waves Confound and swallow navigation up; Though bladed corn be lodged and trees blown down; Though castles topple on their warders...
Página 49 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision.
Página 152 - Reserved him to more wrath ; for now the thought Both of lost happiness and lasting pain Torments him. Round he throws his baleful eyes, That witnessed huge affliction and dismay, Mixed with obdurate pride and steadfast hate.
Página 165 - When therefore the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John, (though Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples,) He left Judea, and departed again into Galilee.
Página 86 - Homer was the greater genius, Virgil the better artist. In one we most admire the man, in the other the work. Homer hurries and transports us with a commanding impetuosity, Virgil leads us with an attractive majesty. Homer scatters with a generous profusion, Virgil bestows with a careful magnificence.