Russell's American Elocutionist. The American Elocutionist: Comprising 'Lessons in Enunciation', 'Exercises in Elocution', and 'Rudiments of Gestre', EtcJenks and Palmer, 1846 |
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... passage , all the errors usually made by a class , although the number might be much smaller for an individual . Every person who fails of articulating distinctly , has an habitual fault , in the pronunciation of one or more classes of ...
... passage , all the errors usually made by a class , although the number might be much smaller for an individual . Every person who fails of articulating distinctly , has an habitual fault , in the pronunciation of one or more classes of ...
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... passages , with truth and correctness . A good enunciation gives to every vowel and consonant its just proportion and . character ; none being omitted , no one blending with another in such a manner as to produce confusion , and none so ...
... passages , with truth and correctness . A good enunciation gives to every vowel and consonant its just proportion and . character ; none being omitted , no one blending with another in such a manner as to produce confusion , and none so ...
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... passages marked by great vehemence . The exercises on ' declamatory force , ' or the appro- priate style of public speaking on subjects of impor- tance and interest , must be carefully preserved from the violence of tone belonging to ...
... passages marked by great vehemence . The exercises on ' declamatory force , ' or the appro- priate style of public speaking on subjects of impor- tance and interest , must be carefully preserved from the violence of tone belonging to ...
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... passage of ironical expression , -deriding the idea that Cæsar was entitled to the credit of humane feeling , because he could not pass the Rubicon without a pause of mis- giving : " Oh ! but he paused upon the brink ! " MONOTONE ...
... passage of ironical expression , -deriding the idea that Cæsar was entitled to the credit of humane feeling , because he could not pass the Rubicon without a pause of mis- giving : " Oh ! but he paused upon the brink ! " MONOTONE ...
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... passage incomplete . Examples . Questions admitting of an affirmative or a negative answer : " Will you obéy so atrocious a mandate ? " Surprise : " Há ! laughest thou , Lochiel , my vision to scórn ? " " What ! surrender on terms so ...
... passage incomplete . Examples . Questions admitting of an affirmative or a negative answer : " Will you obéy so atrocious a mandate ? " Surprise : " Há ! laughest thou , Lochiel , my vision to scórn ? " " What ! surrender on terms so ...
Palavras e frases frequentes
accent action acute accent appropriate Argentine arising articulation attention beautiful cadence character circumflex clause close commencing common common metre connexion cuckoo declamation deep diphthong distinct effect elocution emotion emphasis emphatic England English language enunciation error example exemplified exer EXERCISE expression Fair lords falchion falling inflection fault feeling feet foot force forcible gesture give Glengyle grace grave habit hand heart Heaven honour iambus Ireland king language learner letter liberty light lord Lucca manner meaning mind moderate movement natural never noble o'er orthoepy pause Pecksniff peculiar phatic piece pitch poetic poetry position practice preceding produce pronounced pronunciation prose pupils reading requires rising inflection rule Ruph sentence sentiment slide slow sound South Carolina speaker speaking speech spirit spondee stanza style sword syllables tence thee thou thought Tigg tion tone trochee true unaccented utterance verse voice words
Passagens conhecidas
Página 73 - twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street; On with the dance!
Página 185 - Ye winds ! that have made me your sport, Convey to this desolate shore Some cordial endearing report Of a land I shall visit no more. My friends, do they now and then send A wish or a thought after me ? Oh, tell me I yet have a friend, Though a friend I am never to see.
Página 106 - And this is in the night. — Most glorious night ! Thou wert not sent for slumber ! let me be A sharer in thy fierce and far delight, — A portion of the tempest and of thee ! How the lit lake shines a phosphoric sea, And the big rain comes dancing to the earth ! And now again 'tis black, — and now the glee Of the loud hills shakes with its mountain-mirth, As if they did rejoice o'er a young earthquake's birth.
Página 93 - And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering : but unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect.
Página 102 - Howe'er you come to know it, answer me: Though you untie the winds and let them fight Against the churches; though the yesty waves Confound and swallow navigation up; Though bladed corn be lodged and trees blown down; Though castles topple on their warders...
Página 70 - And in thy right hand lead with thee, The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty; And if I give thee honour due, Mirth, admit me of thy crew To live with her, and live with thee, In unreproved pleasures free...
Página 91 - What may this mean, That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel, Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon, Making night hideous; and we fools of nature So horridly to shake our disposition With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls?
Página 152 - Wha will be a traitor knave ? Wha can fill a coward's grave ? Wha sae base as be a Slave ? Let him turn and flee ! Wha for Scotland's King and Law, Freedom's sword will strongly draw ; Free-man stand, or Free-man fa', Let him on wi
Página 111 - Homer was the greater genius; Virgil, the better artist; in the one, we most admire the man; in. the other, the work. Homer hurries us with a commanding impetuosity; Virgil leads us with an attractive majesty. Homer scatters with a generous profusion; Virgil bestows with a careful magnificence. Homer, like the Nile, pours out his riches with a sudden overflow; Virgil, like a river in its banks, with a constant stream.
Página 176 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty, thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair; thyself how wondrous then ! Unspeakable, who sitt'st above these heavens, To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.