Elements of Elocution: In which the Principles of Reading and Speaking are Investigated ... with Directions for Strengthening and Modulating the Voice ... to which is Added a Complete System of the Passions, Showing how They Affect the Countenance, Tone of Voice, and Gesture of the Body : Exemplified by a Copious Selection of the Most Striking Passages of Shakespeare : the Whole Illustrated by Copper-plates Explaining the Nature of Accent, Emphasis, Inflection, and CadenceD. Mallory & Company, 1810 - 379 pagini |
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Pagina 74
... considered this passage , we run the second line into the third , by suspending the voice at intricate in the rising inflection , and dropping it at errors in the falling , we find a very im- proper meaning conveyed ; and if , in ...
... considered this passage , we run the second line into the third , by suspending the voice at intricate in the rising inflection , and dropping it at errors in the falling , we find a very im- proper meaning conveyed ; and if , in ...
Pagina 87
... is that which we ought to adopt in reading the couplet . It may not , perhaps , be altogether useless to ob- serve , that these angular lines may be considered as a kind of bars in the musick of speaking : ELOCUTION . 87.
... is that which we ought to adopt in reading the couplet . It may not , perhaps , be altogether useless to ob- serve , that these angular lines may be considered as a kind of bars in the musick of speaking : ELOCUTION . 87.
Pagina 91
... considered at large in its proper place : the last relates to that application of inflection , which arises from the division of a sentence , into its component parts ; and this is the object of punctuation . Punctuation , or the ...
... considered at large in its proper place : the last relates to that application of inflection , which arises from the division of a sentence , into its component parts ; and this is the object of punctuation . Punctuation , or the ...
Pagina 96
... the long pause and rising inflection . EXAMPLE . Having already shown how the fancy is affected by the works of nature , and afterwards considered in general both the works of nature and of art , how they mutually assist 96 ELEMENTS OF.
... the long pause and rising inflection . EXAMPLE . Having already shown how the fancy is affected by the works of nature , and afterwards considered in general both the works of nature and of art , how they mutually assist 96 ELEMENTS OF.
Pagina 100
... considered at large , is either that of fortune , body , or mind : the first is that which consists in birth , title , or rìches ; and is the most foreign to our natures , and what we can the least call our own , of any of the three ...
... considered at large , is either that of fortune , body , or mind : the first is that which consists in birth , title , or rìches ; and is the most foreign to our natures , and what we can the least call our own , of any of the three ...
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Elements of Elocution: In which the Principles of Reading and Speaking are ... John Walker Vizualizare completă - 1815 |
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adjective admit adopt the falling agreeable antithesis antithetick object cadence Cæsar cæsura Cicero comma commencing connected convey couplet Demosthenes different inflections distinction distinguish emphasis emphatick words Euboea example expressed eyes Fair Penitent falling inflection flection following sentence force former give harmony hath heaven Ibid idea inflection of voice interrogative words Julius Cæsar kind last member last word latter loose sentence lower tone marked meaning mind modifying words monotone musick nature necessarily necessary nounced observed Oroonoko Othello parenthesis passage passion perceive perfect sense period phasis pleasure preceding pronounced pronunciation prose publick punctuation question reader reading require the falling require the rising rising inflection Rule seems semicolon shew short pause single words slide soul sound speaker speaking Spect Spectator stress substantive syllable taste tence thee thing thou tion tone of voice unaccented variety verb verse whole Winter's Tale
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Pagina 324 - The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids that weave their thread with bones, Do use to chant it ; it is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age.
Pagina 338 - Seems, madam ! nay, it is ; I know not seems. 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black...
Pagina 324 - If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it: that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.
Pagina 324 - I'd have you do it ever: when you sing, I'd have you buy and sell so; so give alms; Pray so ; and, for the ordering your affairs, To sing them too : When you do dance, I wish you A wave o...
Pagina 266 - OF Man's First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death into the World, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat, Sing Heav'nly Muse, that on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That Shepherd, who first taught the chosen Seed, In the Beginning how the Heav'ns and Earth Rose out of Chaos...
Pagina 351 - I'll leave you till night: you are welcome to Elsinore. Ros. Good my lord ! [Exeunt Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Ham. Ay, so, God be wi' you : — Now I am alone. O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I ! Is it not monstrous, that this player here, But in a fiction, in a dream of passion, Could force his soul so to his own conceit...
Pagina 337 - I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano ; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine a sad one.
Pagina 295 - I had a thing to say, — but let it go : The sun is in the heaven, and the proud day, Attended with the pleasures of the world, Is all too wanton, and too full of gawds, To give me audience : — If the midnight bell Did, with his iron tongue and brazen mouth, Sound on into the drowsy race of night...
Pagina 362 - Julius bleed for justice' sake? What villain touch'd his body, that did stab, And not for justice? What, shall one of us, That struck the foremost man of all this world, But for supporting robbers; shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes? And sell the mighty space of our large...
Pagina 338 - My mother had a maid call'd Barbara : She was in love ; and he she lov'd prov'd mad, And did forsake her : she had a song of " willow ;" An old thing 'twas, but it express'd her fortune, And she died singing it...