An Essay on Elocution: With Elucidatory Passages from Various Authors to which are Added Remarks on Reading Prose and Verse, with Suggestions to Instructors of the ArtWeare C. Little, 1846 - 300 páginas |
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... sense , and is pro- ductive of much grandeur and effect . The rule for reading or speaking a climax , is to raise the voice pro- gressively with the subject , until you come to its close . Examples . " The cloud - capt towers , the ...
... sense , and is pro- ductive of much grandeur and effect . The rule for reading or speaking a climax , is to raise the voice pro- gressively with the subject , until you come to its close . Examples . " The cloud - capt towers , the ...
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... sense broken and incomplete , then your hearers , being in expectation of something superlative , will , when it ... sense , there is another and a slighter kind of suspension , which has a general power over eloquence , for by that ...
... sense broken and incomplete , then your hearers , being in expectation of something superlative , will , when it ... sense , there is another and a slighter kind of suspension , which has a general power over eloquence , for by that ...
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... sense of that which encloses it . This figure , rather used to impart variety than elegance to composition , should be read or spoken in a quicker . and a lower tone of voice than the general subject . The reader or speaker , should ...
... sense of that which encloses it . This figure , rather used to impart variety than elegance to composition , should be read or spoken in a quicker . and a lower tone of voice than the general subject . The reader or speaker , should ...
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... sense is charmed , the imagination taken prisoner , and the most obdurate softened and relaxed . The effect of Modulation upon the heart must ever be acknowledged , as long as the human ear can drink the harmony of its sounds . To ...
... sense is charmed , the imagination taken prisoner , and the most obdurate softened and relaxed . The effect of Modulation upon the heart must ever be acknowledged , as long as the human ear can drink the harmony of its sounds . To ...
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... sense and feeling , in con- junction with the rules of this essay and the five in- flections of the voice dictate . Those who are possessed of the requisites already mentioned , will find in the fol- lowing , fit exercises of modulation ...
... sense and feeling , in con- junction with the rules of this essay and the five in- flections of the voice dictate . Those who are possessed of the requisites already mentioned , will find in the fol- lowing , fit exercises of modulation ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
beautiful behold beneath blank verse blessed blood breath brow Brutus Cæsar called cause character clouds dark dead dead rise death deep delight Demosthenes dread earth ELOCUTION eloquence eternal fair Father feel fire Gael George Somers give glory grave Greece hand happy hath heard heart heaven honor hope human human voice inflections justice king liberty light live Lochiel look Lord ment mind mountain nation nature never night noble o'er passion patriot peace pride pronounced pronunciation raised religion rising rocks rolling clouds Roman Roman Forum Rome ruins Saxon scene seemed side smile soul sound speak spirit stood sublime sweet sword tears tempest temples thee Thermæ thine things thou thought throne tion unto vale VALE OF TEMPE Vespasian virtue voice vowels waves wild wind wings word
Passagens conhecidas
Página 272 - The sky is changed ! — and such a change ! Oh night, <- : ) And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman ! Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder ! Not from one lone cloud, But every mountain now hath found a tongue, And Jura answers, through her misty shroud, Back to the joyous Alps, who call to her aloud ! xciii.
Página 76 - For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
Página 150 - Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones; So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus Hath told you Caesar was ambitious: If it were so it was a grievous fault; And grievously hath Caesar answer'd it. Here, under leave of Brutus, and the rest (For Brutus is an honorable man; So are they all, all honorable men), Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral.
Página 152 - I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts: I am no orator, as Brutus is; But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man, That love my friend; and that they know full well That gave me public leave to speak of him: For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech, To stir men's blood: I only speak right on; I tell you that which you yourselves do know...
Página 73 - The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness...
Página 150 - He hath brought many captives home to Rome, Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill; Did this in Caesar seem ambitious? When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept; Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious, And Brutus is an honorable man.
Página 271 - Cameron's gathering" rose, The war-note of Lochiel, which Albyn's hills Have heard,— and heard, too, have her Saxon foes; How in the noon of night that pibroch thrills Savage and shrill! But with the breath which fills Their...
Página 38 - Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier, Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard, Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel, Seeking the bubble reputation Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice, In fair round belly with good capon...
Página 134 - It serves always to distract the Public Councils, and enfeeble the Public Administration. It agitates the Community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms; kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection.
Página 76 - For he hath put all things under his feet! "But when he saith all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted which did put all things under him. And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him that God may be all in all.