A Rhetorical Grammar: In which the Common Improprieties in Reading and Speaking are Detected and the True Sources of Elegant Pronunciation are Pointed Out : With a Complete Analysis of the Voice, Showing Its Specific Modification, and how They May be Applied to Different Figures of Rhetoric, to which are Added Outline of Composition, Or Plain Rules for Writing Orations and Speaking Them in PublicS. Hamilton, 1801 - 392 páginas |
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... requires an elevation of voice ; and an old writer ; Charles Butler , of Magdalen College , Oxford , has , in his English Grammar , gone one step farther , and told us that this species of Interrogation not only re- quires an elevation ...
... requires an elevation of voice ; and an old writer ; Charles Butler , of Magdalen College , Oxford , has , in his English Grammar , gone one step farther , and told us that this species of Interrogation not only re- quires an elevation ...
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... requires these vowels to be heard nearly as distinctly , and with as much purity , as when under the accent . Thus the e in event should be pronounced nearly as e in equal ; the o in opinion as that in open B 4 RHETORICAL GRAMMAR .
... requires these vowels to be heard nearly as distinctly , and with as much purity , as when under the accent . Thus the e in event should be pronounced nearly as e in equal ; the o in opinion as that in open B 4 RHETORICAL GRAMMAR .
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... requires a similar method to correct it . As there are but so very few words in the lan- guage where the initial h is sunk , we may select these from the rest ; and , without setting the pu- pil right when he mispronounces these , or ...
... requires a similar method to correct it . As there are but so very few words in the lan- guage where the initial h is sunk , we may select these from the rest ; and , without setting the pu- pil right when he mispronounces these , or ...
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... requires the full sound of my before the former words , but admits of it only ; nay , the repetition of their sound being disagreeable to the ear , and the sense not demanding it , perhaps the best mode of reading this passage would be ...
... requires the full sound of my before the former words , but admits of it only ; nay , the repetition of their sound being disagreeable to the ear , and the sense not demanding it , perhaps the best mode of reading this passage would be ...
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... requires the grave sound to be retain- ed , or the humour of it would be lost . The indistinct sound of the word NOT . FROM the frequent pronunciation of this word without the least necessity of placing an accent on it , we find it ...
... requires the grave sound to be retain- ed , or the humour of it would be lost . The indistinct sound of the word NOT . FROM the frequent pronunciation of this word without the least necessity of placing an accent on it , we find it ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
accent agreeable arguments arises Asyndeton attention beauty beginning blank verse Cæsar Cæsura called cause character Cicero circumflex Clodius common composition consider consonant couplet defendant Demosthenes discourse distinct distinguished Elocution emphasis emphatic words endeavour example express falling inflexion figure flexion following sentence force former give higher tone honour Ibid idea inflexion of voice instance interrogative interrogative words Julius Cæsar kind language latter likewise long pause lower tone manner mark meaning Milo mind monotone nature necessary nounced nunciation object observed orator ornament particular passage passion perly person phatic Polysyndeton Pompey principal pronounced pronunciation proper propriety prose punctuation question Quintilian quires racter reader reading reason requires Rhetoric riety rising inflexion Roman rule says slide sound speaker speaking Spect Spectator style syllable tence thing thou thought tion tone of voice unaccented variety verb verse virtue vowels whole writing
Passagens conhecidas
Página 229 - God save him; No joyful tongue gave him his welcome home : But dust was thrown upon his sacred head ; Which with such gentle sorrow he shook off, — His face still combating with tears and smiles, The badges of his grief and patience ; — That had not God, for some strong purpose, steel'd The hearts of men, they must perforce have melted, And barbarism itself have pitied him.
Página 29 - O thou, that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion, like the god Of this new world; at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads ; to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 sun ! to tell thee how I hate thy beams...
Página 224 - And when the Sun begins to fling His flaring beams, me, Goddess, bring To arched walks of twilight groves, And shadows brown that Sylvan loves Of Pine, or monumental Oak, Where the rude Axe with heaved stroke, Was never heard the Nymphs to daunt, Or fright them from their hallow'd haunt.
Página 173 - When the proud steed shall know why man restrains His fiery course, or drives him o'er the plains ; When the dull ox, why now he breaks the clod, Is now a victim, and now Egypt's god : Then shall man's pride and dulness comprehend His actions', passions', being's use and end ; Why doing, suffering, check'd, impell'd; and why This hour a slave, the next a deity.
Página 230 - 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...
Página 225 - Th' inferior priestess, at her altar's side, Trembling, begins the sacred rites of Pride. Unnumber'd treasures ope at once, and here The various offerings of the world appear ; From each she nicely culls with curious toil, And decks the goddess with the glittering spoil.
Página 158 - OF all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
Página 175 - Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear : Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Some village- Hampden, that, with dauntless breast, The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. Th...
Página 167 - And wisely curb'd proud man's pretending wit. As on the land while here the ocean gains, In other parts it leaves wide sandy plains ; Thus in the soul while memory prevails, The solid pow'r of understanding fails ; Where beams of warm imagination play, The memory's soft figures melt away.
Página 205 - 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 heavens and earth Rose out of Chaos.