Grammar of ElocutionLongmans, Green, 1889 - 216 páginas |
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... shades of vowel sound the mouth is capable of producing can- not be delineated . No mere diagram can make these nice distinctions of vowel sound obvious . In the absence , therefore , of the illustration of a master , the student should ...
... shades of vowel sound the mouth is capable of producing can- not be delineated . No mere diagram can make these nice distinctions of vowel sound obvious . In the absence , therefore , of the illustration of a master , the student should ...
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... almost innumerable shades . A vowel sound depends therefore for its character on a definite position of the organs of speech . And this position must be maintained during the whole term of expiration 6 THE VERBAL MECHANISM .
... almost innumerable shades . A vowel sound depends therefore for its character on a definite position of the organs of speech . And this position must be maintained during the whole term of expiration 6 THE VERBAL MECHANISM .
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... Shades of vowel sound derive their dif- ferences from corresponding alterations in the shape of the cavity of the mouth , and not from varying degrees of mere duration . The proof of this lies in the fact that in singing , provided a ...
... Shades of vowel sound derive their dif- ferences from corresponding alterations in the shape of the cavity of the mouth , and not from varying degrees of mere duration . The proof of this lies in the fact that in singing , provided a ...
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... shade , ' & c . 45. ED . - When in the termination ed the e is dropped , d will , if preceded by an aspirate consonant , be necessarily converted into t ( pass'd , bless'd , tripp'd , pro- nounced past , blest , tript ) . 46. R. — When ...
... shade , ' & c . 45. ED . - When in the termination ed the e is dropped , d will , if preceded by an aspirate consonant , be necessarily converted into t ( pass'd , bless'd , tripp'd , pro- nounced past , blest , tript ) . 46. R. — When ...
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... shades of colouring . A very little experiment will assure the student that it is all but impossible to reduce these multiform per- mutations of inflection to a didactic system . At the same time , it is quite possible for the student ...
... shades of colouring . A very little experiment will assure the student that it is all but impossible to reduce these multiform per- mutations of inflection to a didactic system . At the same time , it is quite possible for the student ...
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Términos y frases comunes
adjective arms articulation aye yes blood breath brow clouds compound inflection consonant sounds Consonantal combinations consonantal sounds Coriolanus dark death deep dh dh dh doth dread dream earth elocution emphasis eternal expression eyes falling inflection father fear fugitive verse grammatical hate hath heard Heaven Henry Henry IV indivisible Julius Cæsar king Lars Porsena light live lord loud meaning Merchant of Venice mind musical nature never ng ng ng night noun o'er Paradise Lost pause phrase pitch praise pronounced pronunciation queen question Representatives rhythm rhythmical stress Richard II rising inflection sentence sh sh sh shade singing sleep smile soft soul speak speaker speech spirit student sweet syllables tears tell tence th th th thee thine thou thought tion tongue tune unaccented utterance verb vocal consonants voice vowel vowel sounds wh wh wh words zh zh zh
Pasajes populares
Página 209 - NOW, my co-mates, and brothers in exile, Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp ? Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court ? Here feel we but the penalty of Adam, The seasons...
Página 193 - The armaments which thunderstrike the walls Of rock-built cities, bidding nations quake And monarchs tremble in their capitals, The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord of thee, and arbiter of war: These are thy toys, and, as the snowy flake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar.
Página 211 - 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 193 - 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 213 - My story being done, She gave me for my pains a world of sighs : She swore, in faith, 'twas strange, 'twas passing strange ; 'Twas pitiful, 'twas wondrous pitiful : She wish'd she had not heard it, yet she wish'd That heaven had made her such a man ; she thank'd me, And bade me, if I had a friend that lov'd her, I should but teach him how to tell my story, And that would woo her.
Página 184 - Thus with the year Seasons return; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine...
Página 209 - ... in the very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say, whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness. O, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious periwigpated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings, who for the most part are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumbshows and noise : I would have such a fellow whipped for o'erdoing Termagant ; it out-herods Herod : pray you, avoid it.
Página 206 - Rather proclaim it, Westmoreland, through my host, That he which hath no stomach to this fight, Let him depart ; his passport shall be made, And crowns for convoy put into his purse : We would not die in that man's company That fears his fellowship to die with us.
Página 208 - Adam the goodliest man of men since born His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve.
Página 185 - With all her crew complete. Toll for the brave ! Brave Kempenfelt is gone , His last sea-fight is fought, His work of glory done. It was not in the battle ; No tempest gave the shock ; She sprang no fatal leak ; She ran upon no rock His sword was in its sheath, His fingers held the pen, When Kempenfelt went down With twice four hundred men.