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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Rule V . When four members of a sentence , consisting of single words , succeed
each other in a conmencing series , and are the only series in the sentence , they
may be divided into two equal portions : the first member of the first portion ...
Rule V . When four members of a sentence , consisting of single words , succeed
each other in a conmencing series , and are the only series in the sentence , they
may be divided into two equal portions : the first member of the first portion ...
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These rules might be carried to a much greater length ; but ... Rule VII . When a
simple series extends to a considerable length , we may divide it into portions of
three , beginning from the last : if it be a commencing series , pronounce the last ...
These rules might be carried to a much greater length ; but ... Rule VII . When a
simple series extends to a considerable length , we may divide it into portions of
three , beginning from the last : if it be a commencing series , pronounce the last ...
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Rule VI . When four members of a sentence , each of which consists of more than
a single word , follow in a concluding series , the two first members only can have
the falling inflection , and the two last are to be pronounced like the two ...
Rule VI . When four members of a sentence , each of which consists of more than
a single word , follow in a concluding series , the two first members only can have
the falling inflection , and the two last are to be pronounced like the two ...
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And here it were to be wished we could conclude this article without a mention of
those exceptions , which are so apt to discourage inquirers into this subject , and
induce them to conclude that there is nothing like rule or method in reading or ...
And here it were to be wished we could conclude this article without a mention of
those exceptions , which are so apt to discourage inquirers into this subject , and
induce them to conclude that there is nothing like rule or method in reading or ...
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Rule II . As the first general rule was , that the parenthesis ought to terminate with
the same pause and inflection of voice as the member that preceded it ; the next
general rule is , that the parenthesis , like the member immediately preceding it ...
Rule II . As the first general rule was , that the parenthesis ought to terminate with
the same pause and inflection of voice as the member that preceded it ; the next
general rule is , that the parenthesis , like the member immediately preceding it ...
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accent admit adopt answer appear arises arrangement beginning 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 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
Beliebte Passagen
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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