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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junction seeing ; every particular member of it seems necessarily to require the
rising inflection : for it may be observed as a pretty general rule , that where a
conditional or a suppositive conjunction commences the series , if there is
nothing ...
junction seeing ; every particular member of it seems necessarily to require the
rising inflection : for it may be observed as a pretty general rule , that where a
conditional or a suppositive conjunction commences the series , if there is
nothing ...
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Natural historians observe ( for whilst I am in the country I must fetch my allusions
from thénce ) that only male birds ... 128 Dr . Clarke has observed , that Homer is
more perspicuous than any other author ; but if he is so ( wbich yet may be ...
Natural historians observe ( for whilst I am in the country I must fetch my allusions
from thénce ) that only male birds ... 128 Dr . Clarke has observed , that Homer is
more perspicuous than any other author ; but if he is so ( wbich yet may be ...
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... to distinguish words which are really emphatical , from those which are only
pronounced with common force : for , as the ingenious author abovementioned
has observed , these latter words may sometimes be forcibly , and sometimes
feebly ...
... to distinguish words which are really emphatical , from those which are only
pronounced with common force : for , as the ingenious author abovementioned
has observed , these latter words may sometimes be forcibly , and sometimes
feebly ...
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And this general emphasis , it may be observed , has identity for its object , the
antithesis to which is appearance , similitude , or the least possible diversity .
Intermediate or Elliptical Member . It now remains to say something of an
emphatick ...
And this general emphasis , it may be observed , has identity for its object , the
antithesis to which is appearance , similitude , or the least possible diversity .
Intermediate or Elliptical Member . It now remains to say something of an
emphatick ...
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It may not , however , be useless to observe , that when these importance as to
demand an emphatical pronunciation , the ... intermediate member , is calculated
more for the porposes of force than harmony , and therefore ought to be observed
...
It may not , however , be useless to observe , that when these importance as to
demand an emphatical pronunciation , the ... intermediate member , is calculated
more for the porposes of force than harmony , and therefore ought to be observed
...
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accent admit adopt answer appear arises beginning body called comma commencing common concluding connected considered consists convey direct distinction distinguish emphasis emphatical emphatick example expressed eyes falling inflection force former give greater hand harmony idea importance inflection of voice instance interrogative kind latter less lower manner marked meaning mind modified nature necessarily necessary never object observed opposition particular passage passion pause perceive perfect perhaps period person pleasure preceding principal produces pronounced pronunciation proper prose question reader reading reason requires rest rising inflection Rule seems sense sentence separated short single slide sometimes sound speaking Spectator stress suppose syllable taste tence thee thing thou thought tion tone tone of voice variety verb verse voice whole words writing
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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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