An Essay on Elocution: Designed for the Use of Schools and Private LearnersRobinson, Pratt & Company, 1839 - 357 páginas |
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... reader with many new and judicious selections both in prose and poetry ; and altogether evinces great industry , combined with taste and ingenuity . Courier of Upper Canada , York , Oct. 12 , 1833 . Of the talent and judgment of Mr ...
... reader with many new and judicious selections both in prose and poetry ; and altogether evinces great industry , combined with taste and ingenuity . Courier of Upper Canada , York , Oct. 12 , 1833 . Of the talent and judgment of Mr ...
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... reader , what a fence is to a horse , when it ob- structs his progress to a field of sprouting herbage , which he considers himself justifiable to enter by leaping over the barrier . The reader wades through a long preface with as much ...
... reader , what a fence is to a horse , when it ob- structs his progress to a field of sprouting herbage , which he considers himself justifiable to enter by leaping over the barrier . The reader wades through a long preface with as much ...
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... readers . " The cumbrous labours of such men prove unavailing , from an apparently trifling difference of opinion between them and the world which they attempt to enlighten . With an honest zeal they maintain , that their productions ...
... readers . " The cumbrous labours of such men prove unavailing , from an apparently trifling difference of opinion between them and the world which they attempt to enlighten . With an honest zeal they maintain , that their productions ...
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... readers astray , or no guides , which leave them in darkness . Hence , such books are worse than no books . What , then , is to be done , in order to avert the evil influence of bad books - an evil which has been rapidly increasing ever ...
... readers astray , or no guides , which leave them in darkness . Hence , such books are worse than no books . What , then , is to be done , in order to avert the evil influence of bad books - an evil which has been rapidly increasing ever ...
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... reader , lest , by this time , you may think me inclined to be garrulous , if not flighty , upon topicks quite foreign to the subject before me , I will now put a bridle upon my wayward thoughts , and lead them directly into the channel ...
... reader , lest , by this time , you may think me inclined to be garrulous , if not flighty , upon topicks quite foreign to the subject before me , I will now put a bridle upon my wayward thoughts , and lead them directly into the channel ...
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accent adverb affected agreeable appear applied articulation attention beauty blank verse Brutus cæsuras called Caspar Cesar circumflex close dark death degree Demosthenes diphthongal direct distinct earth elementary sounds elocution emphasis emphatick force employed enunciation equal wave errour EXERCISES expressed eyes falling inflection final pause give given happy hath hearers heart heaven honour horse-fly human human voice i-de illustrate important learner letter Lochiel look Lord mân manner meaning ment mind modulation musick nature o'er observed orthoepy peculiar pitch poetick poetry principles pronouncing pronunciation proper protracted publick radical and vanish reader reading Remarks rhetorical pauses rising inflection Rule SECTION semitone Sennacherib sense sentence sentiments SIMPLE SERIES soul speak speaker spirit stress subtonick superiour syllable taste tence thee thing thou thought tion tone tonick elements uncle Toby unequal wave uttered variety verse voice vowel words
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Página 167 - 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' difference ; as, the icy fang, And churlish chiding of the winter's wind ; Which when it bites and blows upon my body, Even till I shrink with cold, I smile, and say, — This is no flattery : these are counsellors, That feelingly persuade me what I am.
Página 165 - Then kneeling down, to Heaven's Eternal King, The saint, the father, and the husband prays : Hope " springs exulting on triumphant wing," That thus they all shall meet in future days : There ever bask in uncreated rays, No more to sigh, or shed the bitter tear, Together hymning their Creator's praise, In such society, yet still more dear ; While circling time moves round in an eternal sphere.
Página 206 - Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests ; in all time, Calm or convulsed — in breeze or gale or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark heaving; — boundless, endless, and sublime — The image of Eternity — the throne Of the Invisible ; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made ; each zone Obeys thee : thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Página 189 - Cromwell, I did not think to shed a tear In all my miseries ; but thou hast forced me, Out of thy honest truth, to play the woman. Let's dry our eyes : and thus far hear me, Cromwell ; And, — when I am forgotten, as I shall be ; And sleep in dull cold marble, where no mention Of me more must be heard of, — say, I taught thee...
Página 307 - Liberty first and Union afterwards'; but everywhere, spread all over in characters of living light, blazing on all its ample folds, as they float over the sea and over the land, and in every wind under the whole heavens, that other sentiment, dear to every true American heart, Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable...
Página 296 - Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favourer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less ; for I have been long wakened from that dream of hope, in which I once boasted myself with so much exultation, " My Lord, " Your Lordship's most humble " Most obedient servant,
Página 206 - I wantoned with thy breakers — they to me Were a delight : and if the freshening sea Made them a terror — 'twas a pleasing fear, For I was as it were a child of thee, And trusted to thy billows far and near, And laid my hand upon thy mane — as I do here.
Página 264 - THE EPITAPH Here rests his head upon the lap of earth A youth to fortune and to fame unknown: Fair science frowned not on his humble birth, And melancholy marked him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere, . Heaven did a recompense as largely send: He gave to misery all he had, a tear: He gained from heaven ('twas all he wished) a friend.
Página 59 - On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the glowing Hours with flying feet— But hark!— that heavy sound breaks in once more, As if the clouds its echo would repeat; And nearer, clearer, deadlier than> before! Arm! Arm! it is— it is— the cannon's opening roar!
Página 210 - Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue : but if you mouth it, as many of our players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines.