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Slow rate of utterance : 1. Here rests his head , upon the lap of earth , A youth to
fortune and to fame unknown ; Fair science frown'd not on his humble birth ; And
melancholy mark'd him for her own . Large was his bounty and his soul sincere ...
Slow rate of utterance : 1. Here rests his head , upon the lap of earth , A youth to
fortune and to fame unknown ; Fair science frown'd not on his humble birth ; And
melancholy mark'd him for her own . Large was his bounty and his soul sincere ...
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accent action appropriate arising articulation attention avoided beauty becomes body called cause character close commencing common correct course deep distinct effect elocution emotion emphasis error example EXERCISE expression falling fault feeling feet foot force former gesture give habit hand head heard heart human inflection king language less letter liberty light living look lord manner marked meaning mind moderate movement natural never night o'er object observed occur pass passage pause piece pitch poetry position practice preceding present produce pronounced prose reading regard requires rising rule sense sentence sentiment short slow sometimes sound speaker speaking speech spirit style succession syllables thing thou thought tion tone true turn utterance verse voice whole
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Página 187 - 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 108 - 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 95 - 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 104 - 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 72 - 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 93 - 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 154 - 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 113 - 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 178 - 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.
Informação bibliográfica
| Título | Russell's American Elocutionist. The American Elocutionist: Comprising 'Lessons in Enunciation', 'Exercises in Elocution', and 'Rudiments of Gestre', Etc |
| Autor | William Russell |
| Edição | 4 |
| Editora | Jenks and Palmer, 1846 |
| Original de | Universidade de Harvard |
| Digitalizado | 31 Out 2007 |
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