The New Speaker. With an Essay on ElocutionSaunders, Otley, and Company, 1861 - 395 páginas |
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... Light ! offspring of Heaven first - born . A judicious application of the rising and falling inflections contributes very much to relieve both the voice of the speaker and the ear of the auditor . This will be perceived in every part of ...
... Light ! offspring of Heaven first - born . A judicious application of the rising and falling inflections contributes very much to relieve both the voice of the speaker and the ear of the auditor . This will be perceived in every part of ...
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... light syllable , or a pause . So that , One and two and three and four and five and , and One , two , three , four , five , 7 will be of exactly the same length as to time E 5 THE NEW SPEAKER . 81 And Ocean groaning from his lowest bed, ...
... light syllable , or a pause . So that , One and two and three and four and five and , and One , two , three , four , five , 7 will be of exactly the same length as to time E 5 THE NEW SPEAKER . 81 And Ocean groaning from his lowest bed, ...
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... light ones . EMPHASIS Of Sense . The emphasis of sense is that stress or force which we give to words , which are in contradis- tinction to other words expressed or understood . The importance of this emphasis is such , that if it be ...
... light ones . EMPHASIS Of Sense . The emphasis of sense is that stress or force which we give to words , which are in contradis- tinction to other words expressed or understood . The importance of this emphasis is such , that if it be ...
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... light , Rank behind rank , like surges bright Of a broad sea of gold . Four hundred trumpets sounded A peal of warlike glee , As that great host , with measured tread , And spears advanced , and ensigns spread , Roll'd slowly towards ...
... light , Rank behind rank , like surges bright Of a broad sea of gold . Four hundred trumpets sounded A peal of warlike glee , As that great host , with measured tread , And spears advanced , and ensigns spread , Roll'd slowly towards ...
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... light as lark at morn ; No longer courted and caress'd , High plac'd in hall , a welcome guest , He pour'd , to lord and lady gay , The unpremeditated lay : A wandering harper , scorn'd and poor , He begg'd his bread from door to door ...
... light as lark at morn ; No longer courted and caress'd , High plac'd in hall , a welcome guest , He pour'd , to lord and lady gay , The unpremeditated lay : A wandering harper , scorn'd and poor , He begg'd his bread from door to door ...
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Términos y frases comunes
accent Angel arms Arnald articulation Balta beauty blood body brave breast breath brow BYRON Cæsar Cicero circumflex Clusium consonants dark death defects delivery Demosthenes diphthongal dread earth Elocution English language Erin go Bragh eyes falling inflection father feel fingers foot genius gesture glory grace Greece ground Gryba hand happy hath head heard heart heaven honour human language Lars Porsena letter light lips Lord Lord Byron LORD CHATHAM loud Macedon mind nature never night o'er orator Otley passion pause pleasure position pronounced pronunciation Quintilian rising inflection Samian wine Scythians sense sentence Shakspere soft soul sound speaker speaking spirit Steel gauntlet stood sublime sweet sword syllabic emphasis syllable tears thee things thou thought tion tone tongue utterance voice vols vowel wave wild words wound youth
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Página 250 - The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece! Where burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace, Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set.
Página 179 - I am the daughter of Earth and Water, And the nursling of the Sky ; I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores ; I change, but I cannot die. For after the rain when with never a stain The pavilion of Heaven is bare, And the winds and sunbeams with their convex gleams Build up the blue dome of air...
Página 229 - Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare; Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss. Though winning near the goal — yet do not grieve: She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss; For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair! Ah, happy, happy boughs! that cannot shed Your leaves, nor ever bid the Spring adieu; And happy melodist, unwearied, For ever piping songs for ever new; More happy love!
Página 358 - Here comes his body, mourned by Mark Antony : who, though he had no hand in his death, shall receive the benefit of his dying, a place in the commonwealth ; as which of you shall not ? With this I depart ; that, as I slew my best lover for the good of Rome, I have the same dagger for myself, when it shall please my country to need my death.
Página 357 - Romans, countrymen, and lovers! hear me for my cause ; and be silent that you may hear : believe me for mine honour; and have respect to mine honour, that you may believe: censure me in your wisdom; and awake your senses that you may the better judge. If there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of Caesar's, to him I say, that Brutus' love to Caesar was no less than his.
Página 237 - Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean, roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain ; Man marks the earth with ruin — his control Stops with the shore ; upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed...
Página 135 - But the Consul's brow was sad, And the Consul's speech was low, And darkly looked he at the wall, And darkly at the foe. " Their van will be upon us Before the bridge goes down; And if they once may win the bridge. What hope to save the town...
Página 238 - Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they { Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since ; their shores obey The stranger, slave, or savage ; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts : — not so thou, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play — Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow — Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now.
Página 216 - Come, pensive Nun, devout and pure, ' Sober, steadfast, and demure, All in a robe of darkest grain, Flowing with majestic train, And sable stole of cypress lawn Over thy decent shoulders drawn. Come; but keep thy wonted state, With even step, and musing gait, And looks commercing with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes...
Página 252 - Must we but weep o'er days more blest ? Must we but blush ? — Our fathers bled. Earth ! render back from out thy breast A remnant of our Spartan dead ! Of the three hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylae...