A Grammar of Elocution: Containing the Principles of the Arts of Reading and Speaking; Illustrated by Appropriate Exercises and Examples ...A. H. Maltby, 1830 - 344 páginas |
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... speaking , or to reading , will show that a good articulation is very uncommon . The attentive listener has to complain , that , letters , words , and , sometimes , considerable portions of sentences , are pro- nounced 2 Articulation,
... speaking , or to reading , will show that a good articulation is very uncommon . The attentive listener has to complain , that , letters , words , and , sometimes , considerable portions of sentences , are pro- nounced 2 Articulation,
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... letter M. The lips , which before were held in somewhat for- cible contact , are now separated , the mouth is opened . and its cavity is put into a particular shape ; and air being again impelled from the throat during this position of ...
... letter M. The lips , which before were held in somewhat for- cible contact , are now separated , the mouth is opened . and its cavity is put into a particular shape ; and air being again impelled from the throat during this position of ...
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... letters and not to the names of the letters . The same letter sometimes stands in different words for several sounds . Attend therefore to the Sounds of the Elements which are , as the table of words shows , distinct . They are ...
... letters and not to the names of the letters . The same letter sometimes stands in different words for several sounds . Attend therefore to the Sounds of the Elements which are , as the table of words shows , distinct . They are ...
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... letters . Such letter , or letters , ( where more than one stand for a vocal element , ) if pronounced as usually heard in such word or words , will give the true elementary sound in question . Each vocal element , vowel and consonant ...
... letters . Such letter , or letters , ( where more than one stand for a vocal element , ) if pronounced as usually heard in such word or words , will give the true elementary sound in question . Each vocal element , vowel and consonant ...
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... letters . This distinction is important , be- cause the sounds of the names of the letters and the sounds of the elements , ( for both of which letters stand as sym- bols , ) are , though sometimes alike , often , entirely different ...
... letters . This distinction is important , be- cause the sounds of the names of the letters and the sounds of the elements , ( for both of which letters stand as sym- bols , ) are , though sometimes alike , often , entirely different ...
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accented agreeable articulation aspiration Brutus cadence Cæsar called ceive cern concrete consonants degree delivery described discourse discrete downward slide earth effect elementary sounds Elocution Elocutionist emphasis emphatic employed equal wave example exercise expression eyes falling ditone falling slide fifth force forcible give Harfleur hath heard heart heaven high note Human Voice intervals light long quantity Lord loud marked marked radical measure median stress ments monotony nature nerally o'er octave pauses percussion persons plaintive practice pronounced pronunciation prosody public speaking quire racter radical pitch radical stress reading rise and fall rising ditone rising slide semitone sentence short simple melody soul speak speaker speech student sylla syllables TABLE OF CONSONANT TABLE OF VOWEL thee thine thing third thou art thought throne tion tone tremor unto utterance vanish vocal voice vowel elements vowel sounds words Δ Δ Δ
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