Elements of Elocution: In which the Principles of Reading and Speaking are Investigated ... with Directions for Strengthening and Modulating the Voice ... to which is Added a Complete System of the Passions, Showing how They Affect the Countenance, Tone of Voice, and Gesture of the Body : Exemplified by a Copious Selection of the Most Striking Passages of Shakespeare : the Whole Illustrated by Copper-plates Explaining the Nature of Accent, Emphasis, Inflection, and Cadence |
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Of this nature are those of the imagination , which do not require such a bent of
thought as is necessary to our more serious employments , nor at the same time
suffer the mind to sink into that negligence and remissness , which are apt to ...
Of this nature are those of the imagination , which do not require such a bent of
thought as is necessary to our more serious employments , nor at the same time
suffer the mind to sink into that negligence and remissness , which are apt to ...
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... abstractedly from its passions , is of a remiss and sedentary nature ; slow in its
resolves , and languishing in its executions . Spectator , No . 255 . Here a direct
period is formed at nature ; the principal constructive parts of this period ...
... abstractedly from its passions , is of a remiss and sedentary nature ; slow in its
resolves , and languishing in its executions . Spectator , No . 255 . Here a direct
period is formed at nature ; the principal constructive parts of this period ...
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Notwithstanding all the pains which Cicero took in the education of his son ,
history informs us , that young Marcus proved a mere blockhead ; and that Nature
( who , it seems , was even with the son for her prodigality to the father ) rendered
...
Notwithstanding all the pains which Cicero took in the education of his son ,
history informs us , that young Marcus proved a mere blockhead ; and that Nature
( who , it seems , was even with the son for her prodigality to the father ) rendered
...
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... distinct from the pronunciation of prose : both of them have nature for their
basis ; but one is common , familiar , and practical nature ; the other beautiful ,
elevated , and ideal nature ; the latter as different from the former as the elegant
step of ...
... distinct from the pronunciation of prose : both of them have nature for their
basis ; but one is common , familiar , and practical nature ; the other beautiful ,
elevated , and ideal nature ; the latter as different from the former as the elegant
step of ...
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Pol . Wherefore , gentle maiden , Do you neglect your gilly - flowers and
carnations ? Per . I have heard it said , There is an art which in their piedness
shares With great creating nature . Pol . Say there be , Yet nature is made better
by no mean ...
Pol . Wherefore , gentle maiden , Do you neglect your gilly - flowers and
carnations ? Per . I have heard it said , There is an art which in their piedness
shares With great creating nature . Pol . Say there be , Yet nature is made better
by no mean ...
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Seite 324 - The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids that weave their thread with bones, Do use to chant it ; it is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age.
Seite 338 - Seems, madam ! nay, it is ; I know not seems. 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black...
Seite 324 - If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it: that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.
Seite 324 - I'd have you do it ever: when you sing, I'd have you buy and sell so; so give alms; Pray so ; and, for the ordering your affairs, To sing them too : When you do dance, I wish you A wave o...
Seite 266 - OF Man's First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death into the World, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat, Sing Heav'nly Muse, that on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That Shepherd, who first taught the chosen Seed, In the Beginning how the Heav'ns and Earth Rose out of Chaos...
Seite 351 - I'll leave you till night: you are welcome to Elsinore. Ros. Good my lord ! [Exeunt Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Ham. Ay, so, God be wi' you : — Now I am alone. O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I ! Is it not monstrous, that this player here, But in a fiction, in a dream of passion, Could force his soul so to his own conceit...
Seite 337 - I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano ; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine a sad one.
Seite 295 - I had a thing to say, — but let it go : The sun is in the heaven, and the proud day, Attended with the pleasures of the world, Is all too wanton, and too full of gawds, To give me audience : — If the midnight bell Did, with his iron tongue and brazen mouth, Sound on into the drowsy race of night...
Seite 362 - Julius bleed for justice' sake? What villain touch'd his body, that did stab, And not for justice? What, shall one of us, That struck the foremost man of all this world, But for supporting robbers; shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes? And sell the mighty space of our large...
Seite 338 - My mother had a maid call'd Barbara : She was in love ; and he she lov'd prov'd mad, And did forsake her : she had a song of " willow ;" An old thing 'twas, but it express'd her fortune, And she died singing it...
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| Titel | Elements of Elocution: In which the Principles of Reading and Speaking are Investigated ... with Directions for Strengthening and Modulating the Voice ... to which is Added a Complete System of the Passions, Showing how They Affect the Countenance, Tone of Voice, and Gesture of the Body ... |
| Autor/in | John Walker |
| Ausgabe | 4 |
| Verlag | D. Mallory & Company, 1810 |
| Original von | Harvard University |
| Digitalisiert | 2. Jan. 2007 |
| Länge | 379 Seiten |
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