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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Página 48
... thee thou flaming Minister . A frame of adamant - a soul of fire . No dangers fright him and no labors tire . He laughs at me . Thou lookst from thy throne in the clouds , and laugh'st at the storm . He begged pardon for having troubled ...
... thee thou flaming Minister . A frame of adamant - a soul of fire . No dangers fright him and no labors tire . He laughs at me . Thou lookst from thy throne in the clouds , and laugh'st at the storm . He begged pardon for having troubled ...
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... thee . Thou barb'd'st the dart by which he fell . Many arcs were seen floating down the stream . There bark'd and howled , within , unseen . The culprit was hurled from the tarpeian rock . Words , Words , Words ! Are the goods wharfed ...
... thee . Thou barb'd'st the dart by which he fell . Many arcs were seen floating down the stream . There bark'd and howled , within , unseen . The culprit was hurled from the tarpeian rock . Words , Words , Words ! Are the goods wharfed ...
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... , with this difference however from it , that the voice falls through two tones upon the second syllable instead of the first . To thee I call . Here the close is also inferior in completeness to that FORMS OF CADENCE . 81.
... , with this difference however from it , that the voice falls through two tones upon the second syllable instead of the first . To thee I call . Here the close is also inferior in completeness to that FORMS OF CADENCE . 81.
Página 100
... thee , isle , own , ooze , how , are of this description . If any person will take these words one by one , and pronounce them as shortly as possible , and then draw them out more and more , at successive efforts , till ( with- out ...
... thee , isle , own , ooze , how , are of this description . If any person will take these words one by one , and pronounce them as shortly as possible , and then draw them out more and more , at successive efforts , till ( with- out ...
Página 102
... thee , eel , who , ooze , thy , arm , isle , thou , our . The consonant elements do not admit of time at the beginning of syllables . If quantity be given to them in this situation , and consequently to the syllables of which they make ...
... thee , eel , who , ooze , thy , arm , isle , thou , our . The consonant elements do not admit of time at the beginning of syllables . If quantity be given to them in this situation , and consequently to the syllables of which they make ...
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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.