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 . But the four sounds above mentioned can be greatly ...
... 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 . But the four sounds above mentioned can be greatly ...
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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 Sometimes a particular preference of one of the phrases of melody over others at a pause is required by the sense . We know that ...
... pauses . They should be used in such succession as to prevent any regular return of the same impression on Sometimes a particular preference of one of the phrases of melody over others at a pause is required by the sense . We know that ...
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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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Términos y frases comunes
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 hast hath heard heart heaven high note Human Voice intervals light long quantity Lord loud marked marked radical measure median stress ments monotony natural 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 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 tion tone tremor unto utterance vanish vocal voice vowel elements vowel sounds words Δ Δ Δ ΙΔ
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Página 111 - I heard the bell tolled on thy burial day, I saw the hearse that bore thee slow away, And, turning from my nursery window, drew A long, long sigh, and wept a last adieu ! But was it such ? It was.
Página 182 - She saith unto him, Yea, Lord : I believe that thou art the Christ the Son of God, which should come into the world.
Página 133 - 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 147 - 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 odours from his dewy wings.
Página 111 - 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 147 - But soon he saw the brisk awakening viol, Whose sweet, entrancing voice he loved the best. They would have thought who heard the strain, They saw in Tempe's...
Página 150 - 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...
Página 85 - Homer was the greater genius; Virgil the better artist: in the one, we most admire the man; in the other, the work. Homer hurries us with a commanding impetuosity ; Virgil leads us with an attractive majesty. Homer scatters with a generous profusion ; Virgil bestows with a careful magnificence. Homer, like the Nile, pours out his riches with a sudden overflow ; Virgil, like a river in its banks, with a constant stream.
Página 47 - 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.