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 CadenceD. Mallory & Company, 1810 - 379 pàgines |
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Pàgina 39
... particular name . < A period is a complex sentence , wherein the meaning remains suspended , till the whole is finish- ' ed : the connection , consequently , is so close be- * tween the beginning and the end , as to give rise to ' the ...
... particular name . < A period is a complex sentence , wherein the meaning remains suspended , till the whole is finish- ' ed : the connection , consequently , is so close be- * tween the beginning and the end , as to give rise to ' the ...
Pàgina 43
... particular negligence and remiss- ness which is apt to accompany our more sensual de- lights . The first member of this sentence affords an opportunity of explaining this by its opposite : for here it is not meant , that those pleasures ...
... particular negligence and remiss- ness which is apt to accompany our more sensual de- lights . The first member of this sentence affords an opportunity of explaining this by its opposite : for here it is not meant , that those pleasures ...
Pàgina 46
... is ex- pressed . EXAMPLE . As in my speculations I have endeavoured to extinguish passion and prejudice , I am still desirous of doing some good in this particular . Spectator . Here the word so is understood before I am , 46 ELEMENTS OF.
... is ex- pressed . EXAMPLE . As in my speculations I have endeavoured to extinguish passion and prejudice , I am still desirous of doing some good in this particular . Spectator . Here the word so is understood before I am , 46 ELEMENTS OF.
Pàgina 52
... particular cases as demand the short pause , and those where it cannot be omitted without hurting either the sense or the delivery . Rule IV . When a nominative consists of more than one word , it is necessary to pause after it . When a ...
... particular cases as demand the short pause , and those where it cannot be omitted without hurting either the sense or the delivery . Rule IV . When a nominative consists of more than one word , it is necessary to pause after it . When a ...
Pàgina 54
... particular sort which was offered him . Addison's Spect . No. 409 . The member intervening between the verb distin- guish and the accusative the particular sort , must be separated from them by a short pause . A man of a fine taste in ...
... particular sort which was offered him . Addison's Spect . No. 409 . The member intervening between the verb distin- guish and the accusative the particular sort , must be separated from them by a short pause . A man of a fine taste in ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 338 - Seems, madam ! nay, it is ; I know not seems. 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black...
Pàgina 324 - If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it: that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.
Pàgina 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...
Pàgina 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...
Pàgina 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...
Pàgina 337 - I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano ; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine a sad one.
Pàgina 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...
Pàgina 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...
Pàgina 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...