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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... pauses as pos- sible to be made between each ; in such case each syllable will have short quantity , the pauses will have short time and the general movement will be in quick time . the four sounds above mentioned can be greatly length ...
... pauses as pos- sible to be made between each ; in such case each syllable will have short quantity , the pauses will have short time and the general movement will be in quick time . the four sounds above mentioned can be greatly length ...
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... pauses are intentionally lengthened ; that it has short quantity because the syllables either do not admit of extension or are not extended . The pauses in all good delivery bear a proportion to the length of syllables . High on a ...
... pauses are intentionally lengthened ; that it has short quantity because the syllables either do not admit of extension or are not extended . The pauses in all good delivery bear a proportion to the length of syllables . High on a ...
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... pauses . Monotony will be particularly obtrusive at successive pauses , because the ear is invited by them to notice any striking return in the order of the pitch . Such a return frequently takes place where a series of commas suspend ...
... pauses . Monotony will be particularly obtrusive at successive pauses , because the ear is invited by them to notice any striking return in the order of the pitch . Such a return frequently takes place where a series of commas suspend ...
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... pauses . They should be used in such succession as to prevent any regular return of the same impression on the ear . Sometimes a particular preference of one of the phrases of melody over others at a pause is required by the sense . We ...
... pauses . They should be used in such succession as to prevent any regular return of the same impression on the ear . Sometimes a particular preference of one of the phrases of melody over others at a pause is required by the sense . We ...
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... pause after it , is so intimately connected with the verb " doth merit , " from which it is disjoined by the in- tervening proposition , as to require the additionally sus- pending effect of the rising ditone . The falling ... PAUSES . 87.
... pause after it , is so intimately connected with the verb " doth merit , " from which it is disjoined by the in- tervening proposition , as to require the additionally sus- pending effect of the rising ditone . The falling ... PAUSES . 87.
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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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