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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... mind of your talents and acquirements , you are obliged to forego them , because you have despised or neglected the art of communicating your sentiments in an impressive and agreeable manner . II . It remains to refer to the following ...
... mind of your talents and acquirements , you are obliged to forego them , because you have despised or neglected the art of communicating your sentiments in an impressive and agreeable manner . II . It remains to refer to the following ...
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... mind in criticising a pub- lic speaker , • Directions to the Exercises , 194 197 EXERCISES . Ode on the death of Thompson - COLLINS , 198 • Catharina - CowPER , 201 Adam and Eve's Hymn - MILTON , 205 Revelations , 10 CONTENTS .
... mind in criticising a pub- lic speaker , • Directions to the Exercises , 194 197 EXERCISES . Ode on the death of Thompson - COLLINS , 198 • Catharina - CowPER , 201 Adam and Eve's Hymn - MILTON , 205 Revelations , 10 CONTENTS .
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... mind is constantly confused in its attempts to apprehend the meaning . Conversation partakes of the defect in question . But faults of articulation which do not strike the ear in conver- sation , become , not only apparent in public ...
... mind is constantly confused in its attempts to apprehend the meaning . Conversation partakes of the defect in question . But faults of articulation which do not strike the ear in conver- sation , become , not only apparent in public ...
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... Mind you do not singe your gown . Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow . Nipt in the bud . Thou found'st me poor at first and keep'st me so . The green herb was his food . We constructed an arc , and began our voyage without delay ...
... Mind you do not singe your gown . Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow . Nipt in the bud . Thou found'st me poor at first and keep'st me so . The green herb was his food . We constructed an arc , and began our voyage without delay ...
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... thistles through the thick of my thumb . Man wants but little here below , nor wants that little long . Foreign travel enlarges and liberalizes the mind . He never swerved from his purpose . We lost our 50 GRAMMAR OF ELOCUTION .
... thistles through the thick of my thumb . Man wants but little here below , nor wants that little long . Foreign travel enlarges and liberalizes the mind . He never swerved from his purpose . We lost our 50 GRAMMAR OF ELOCUTION .
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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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