An Introduction to the Grammar of Elocution: Designed for the Use of SchoolsMarsh, Capen & Lyon, 1836 - 174 páginas |
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... repeatedly called to read and speak , under circumstances which may render it to their interest to do it well , is it not advisable that every one should take that course , by which alone they can reasonably hope to insure the power ...
... repeatedly called to read and speak , under circumstances which may render it to their interest to do it well , is it not advisable that every one should take that course , by which alone they can reasonably hope to insure the power ...
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... repeated till its intonation has become familiar ; and then , when every sentence in the piece has been thus gone over , the whole may be taken up together with advantage . The old mode of school reading and declaiming is perhaps worse ...
... repeated till its intonation has become familiar ; and then , when every sentence in the piece has been thus gone over , the whole may be taken up together with advantage . The old mode of school reading and declaiming is perhaps worse ...
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... repeated , just as one naturally would in common conversation , but with a pause after the word ' see , ' as if the speaker was interrupted ; I am coming to see . - . ' The word'see ' has , in such a case , a very peculiar in- tonation ...
... repeated , just as one naturally would in common conversation , but with a pause after the word ' see , ' as if the speaker was interrupted ; I am coming to see . - . ' The word'see ' has , in such a case , a very peculiar in- tonation ...
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... repeated in the same manner , to the end . ' I am coming to see you to - day . ' The last syllable , ' day , ' has an intonation quite different from that which we have just shown the other syllables to have . We feel , as soon as it is ...
... repeated in the same manner , to the end . ' I am coming to see you to - day . ' The last syllable , ' day , ' has an intonation quite different from that which we have just shown the other syllables to have . We feel , as soon as it is ...
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... repeated by itself , is different from that of any of the slides already mentioned . • I. ' The slide which gives it this expression , is the downward slide , corresponding to the preceding up- It is called the downward slide of the ...
... repeated by itself , is different from that of any of the slides already mentioned . • I. ' The slide which gives it this expression , is the downward slide , corresponding to the preceding up- It is called the downward slide of the ...
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Términos y frases comunes
accented syllables atonic elements beginning called Columbus concrete pitch course diphthongs direct equal discrete pitch downward slide drawling elements of expression emphasis emphatic words employed Erin example explain father faults feeling give given Grammar of Elocution hail hath hear heard Heaven Hophni and Phinehas human voice indirect equal wave indirect wave intonation Israel Jesus Jews lengthen long quantity Lord loud meaning median stress ment musical musical scale nature never octave pause Pharisees Philistines Pinta practice pupil quality of voice question radical pitch radical stress razors repeated saith unto scored exercises semitone short simple slides simple sounds slides and waves slurred solemn sounding line speaking speech subtonic elements tables tences thee thing third Thou art tion tone tonic elements unaccented unemphatic unequal wave upward interval upward slide utterance vanishing stress vocal elements whole
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Página 138 - When Jesus heard that, he said, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby.
Página 143 - Almighty and most merciful Father ; We have erred, and strayed from thy ways like lost sheep. We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts. We have offended against thy holy laws. We have left undone those things which we ought to have done ; And we have done those things which we ought not to have done; And there is no health in us.
Página 164 - THE boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but him had fled; The flame that lit the battle's wreck Shone round him o'er the dead. Yet beautiful and bright he stood, As born to rule the storm; A creature of heroic blood, A proud though childlike form.
Página 144 - The injustice of England has driven us to arms ; and, blinded to her own interest for our good, she has obstinately persisted, till independence is now within our grasp. We have but to reach forth to it, and it is ours. Why then should we defer the declaration ? Is any man so weak as now to hope for a reconciliation with England, which shall leave either safety to the country and its liberties, or safety to his own life, and his own honor?
Página 138 - These things said he: and after that he saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus sleepeth ; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep.
Página 138 - Then Martha, as soon as she heard that Jesus was coming, went and met him : but Mary sat still in the house.
Página 139 - And when she had so said, she went her way, and called Mary her sister secretly, saying, The Master is come, and calleth for thee.
Página 140 - And some of them said, Could not this man, which opened the eyes of the blind, have caused that even this man should not have died 1 Jesus therefore again groaning in himself cometh to the grave.
Página 170 - On the whole it appears, and my argument shows, With a reasoning the court will never condemn, That the spectacles plainly were made for the Nose, And the Nose was as plainly intended for them." Then shifting his side (as a lawyer knows how), He pleaded again in behalf of the Eyes : But what were his arguments few people know, For the court did not think they were equally wise. So his lordship decreed, with a grave., solemn tone, Decisive and clear, without one if or but — " That, whenever the...
Página 153 - Straits, — whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold ; that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the South. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and restingplace in the progress of their victorious industry.