A Rhetorical Grammar: In which the Common Improprieties in Reading and Speaking are Detected and the True Sources of Elegant Pronunciation are Pointed Out : With a Complete Analysis of the Voice, Showing Its Specific Modification, and how They May be Applied to Different Figures of Rhetoric, to which are Added Outline of Composition, Or Plain Rules for Writing Orations and Speaking Them in PublicS. Hamilton, 1801 - 392 pages |
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... emphasis , and inflexion of voice , and the proper pronunciation of the Figures of Rhe- toric , it is presumed the present work is the most perfect of its kind in the language . A powerful motive , indeed , for enlarging the Rhetorical ...
... emphasis , and inflexion of voice , and the proper pronunciation of the Figures of Rhe- toric , it is presumed the present work is the most perfect of its kind in the language . A powerful motive , indeed , for enlarging the Rhetorical ...
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... Emphasis - - 139 On the different Forces of Emphatic Words - م 143 On the Propriety of marking Emphatic Words - 147 A Method of marking the different Forces of Words 148 Utility of understanding the different Inflexions and dif- ferent ...
... Emphasis - - 139 On the different Forces of Emphatic Words - م 143 On the Propriety of marking Emphatic Words - 147 A Method of marking the different Forces of Words 148 Utility of understanding the different Inflexions and dif- ferent ...
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... emphasis on them . For example ; You told him all the truth . Here the word you is a nominative case , that is , it goes before the word denoting action , and must therefore be pro- nounced full and open , so as to rhyme with new . In ...
... emphasis on them . For example ; You told him all the truth . Here the word you is a nominative case , that is , it goes before the word denoting action , and must therefore be pro- nounced full and open , so as to rhyme with new . In ...
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... emphasis is upon this word , it is always pronounced full and open , ex- actly like the substantive erver ; as , The moment I had read Your letter I sat down to write Mine : but , when it is not emphatical , it sinks natural- ly into ...
... emphasis is upon this word , it is always pronounced full and open , ex- actly like the substantive erver ; as , The moment I had read Your letter I sat down to write Mine : but , when it is not emphatical , it sinks natural- ly into ...
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... emphasis on it , as in the former example , it should certainly be sounded exactly in the same distinct manner in both places . That the word not in a simple negative sen tence does not require an accent , but is pro nounced like an ...
... emphasis on it , as in the former example , it should certainly be sounded exactly in the same distinct manner in both places . That the word not in a simple negative sen tence does not require an accent , but is pro nounced like an ...
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accent ANACOENOSIS arguments arise Asyndeton attend beauty beginning blank verse Cæsar Cæsura called Catiline character Cicero Clodius common composition consider couplet degree Demosthenes discourse distinct distinguished emphasis emphatic words endeavour example expression falling inflexion figure flexion following sentence force former give harmony heav'n higher tone honour Ibid idea inflexion of voice instance interrogative interrogative words Julius Cæsar kind language latter likewise long pause lower tone manner mark meaning Milo mind monotone nature necessary nounced nunciation object observed orator ornament Paradise Lost particular passion person phatical poet Polysyndeton Pompey Pope principal pronouncing this passage pronunciation proper prose question Quintilian racter reader reading reason Rhetoric rhyme riety rising inflexion Roman rule says simile sound speaker speaking Spect Spectator style syllable tence thing thou thought tion tone of voice variety verb verse virtue vowels whole writing
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Page 233 - God save him; No joyful tongue gave him his welcome home : But dust was thrown upon his sacred head ; Which with such gentle sorrow he shook off, — His face still combating with tears and smiles, The badges of his grief and patience ; — That had not God, for some strong purpose, steel'd The hearts of men, they must perforce have melted, And barbarism itself have pitied him.
Page 33 - O thou, that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion, like the god Of this new world; at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads ; to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 sun ! to tell thee how I hate thy beams...
Page 228 - And when the Sun begins to fling His flaring beams, me, Goddess, bring To arched walks of twilight groves, And shadows brown that Sylvan loves Of Pine, or monumental Oak, Where the rude Axe with heaved stroke, Was never heard the Nymphs to daunt, Or fright them from their hallow'd haunt.
Page 177 - When the proud steed shall know why man restrains His fiery course, or drives him o'er the plains ; When the dull ox, why now he breaks the clod, Is now a victim, and now Egypt's god : Then shall man's pride and dulness comprehend His actions', passions', being's use and end ; Why doing, suffering, check'd, impell'd; and why This hour a slave, the next a deity.
Page 234 - 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...
Page 229 - Th' inferior priestess, at her altar's side, Trembling, begins the sacred rites of Pride. Unnumber'd treasures ope at once, and here The various offerings of the world appear ; From each she nicely culls with curious toil, And decks the goddess with the glittering spoil.
Page 162 - OF all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
Page 179 - Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear : Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Some village- Hampden, that, with dauntless breast, The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. Th...
Page 171 - And wisely curb'd proud man's pretending wit. As on the land while here the ocean gains, In other parts it leaves wide sandy plains ; Thus in the soul while memory prevails, The solid pow'r of understanding fails ; Where beams of warm imagination play, The memory's soft figures melt away.
Page 209 - 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 heavens and earth Rose out of Chaos.