 | John Walker - 1804 - 330 Seiten
...which may be louder or softer, but cannot be either higher or lower ; this is pronouncing according ю Mr. Sheridan's definition of accent : and this pronunciation...higher, or from a higher to a lower note : the only two possimark that movement, is by striking a soft note first, followed by one more forcible, and so in... | |
 | John Walker - 1822 - 330 Seiten
...soft note first, followed by oue more forcible, and so in succession. Let the same movement be as, that accent is only a greater force upon one syllable...respect to elevation or depression : so that when we sounded by the trumpet in an alternation of high and low notes, and it will give a distinct idea of... | |
 | Thomas Sheridan - 1834 - 214 Seiten
...tone than if we were to beat the syllables upon a drum, which may be louder or softer, but cannot be higher or lower ; this is pronouncing according to...two possible ways of varying the human voice with Vespect to elevation or depression." But Mr. W. admits, that " that excellent scholar, Mr. Forster,"... | |
 | John Young - 1860 - 368 Seiten
...about creation involving a change to the Creator, either from worse to better, or from better to worse, from a lower to a higher, or from a higher to a lower mode of being, or from one state to another, the change being purely indifferent. On all which, I for... | |
 | Charles Frederic Hudson - 1861 - 232 Seiten
...about creation involving a change to the Creator, either from worse to better, or from better to worse, from a lower to a higher, or from a higher to a lower mode of being, or from one state to another, the change being purely indifferent. On all which, for... | |
 | 1875 - 844 Seiten
...solid earth in that parallel. But suppose that a large body of water has a movement of its own, either from a lower to a higher, or from a higher to a lower parallel; it will then, according to a wellknown principle of physics, carry with it the easterly momentum... | |
 | 1875 - 1036 Seiten
...solid earth in that parallel. But suppose that a large body of water has a movement of its own, either from a lower to a higher, or from a higher to a lower parallel; it will then, according to a well-known principle of physics, carry with it the easterly... | |
 | Edward Napoleon Kirby - 1884 - 176 Seiten
...another. "Pitch is the place of the sound in the musical scale." Concrete pitch is that movement of sound from a lower to a higher, or from a higher to a lower pitch, without any break ; it is accomplished by one impulse of sound. Discrete pitch is that of two... | |
 | Herbert Tuttle - 1888 - 372 Seiten
...perpetuate them ; to make them solid, firm, and formidable ; to render it impossible to cross them, whether from a lower to a higher, or from a higher to a lower station in the social scale. In this respect the system was strictly impartial. The peasant was forbidden... | |
 | Herbert Tuttle - 1888 - 368 Seiten
...perpetuate them ; to make them solid, firm, and formidable ; to render it impossible to cross them, whether from a lower to a higher, or from a higher to a lower station in the social scale. In this respect the system was strictly impartial. The peasant was forbidden... | |
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Sheridan's definition of accent : and this pronunciation certainly comes under the definition of singing : it is singing ill, indeed, as Julius Caesar said of a bad reader, — but still it is singing, and therefore essentially different from speaking... 
