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 pages |
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Page 77
... phasis , for want of a just idea of the distinction of in- flection here laid down : I tell you , though you , though all the world , though an an- gel from heaven , were to affirm the truth of it , I could not be lieve it . The falling ...
... phasis , for want of a just idea of the distinction of in- flection here laid down : I tell you , though you , though all the world , though an an- gel from heaven , were to affirm the truth of it , I could not be lieve it . The falling ...
Page 80
... phasis upon the first fame in the following sentence , the last fame will take the rising inflection : He says fame , and not fame . So that the inflections on the first and last fame , in this sentence , are in an opposite order to the ...
... phasis upon the first fame in the following sentence , the last fame will take the rising inflection : He says fame , and not fame . So that the inflections on the first and last fame , in this sentence , are in an opposite order to the ...
Page 81
... phasis on each member which forms a beautiful climax , entirely lost in the common mode of pro- nouncing them : and , to omit no method that may tend to convey an idea of this difference of inflection , let us suppose these words to be ...
... phasis on each member which forms a beautiful climax , entirely lost in the common mode of pro- nouncing them : and , to omit no method that may tend to convey an idea of this difference of inflection , let us suppose these words to be ...
Page 88
... phasis . Utility of a Knowledge of the Inflections of the Voice . But it will be demanded : suppose we could con- ceive the nature of these inflections ever so clearly , of what use will it be ? I answer , that as the sense and harmony ...
... phasis . Utility of a Knowledge of the Inflections of the Voice . But it will be demanded : suppose we could con- ceive the nature of these inflections ever so clearly , of what use will it be ? I answer , that as the sense and harmony ...
Page 91
... phasis , which will be considered at large in its proper place : the last relates to that application of inflection , which arises from the division of a sentence , into its component parts ; and this is the object of punctuation ...
... phasis , which will be considered at large in its proper place : the last relates to that application of inflection , which arises from the division of a sentence , into its component parts ; and this is the object of punctuation ...
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adjective admit adopt the falling agreeable antithesis antithetick object cadence Cæsar cæsura Cicero comma commencing connected convey couplet Demosthenes different inflections distinction distinguish emphasis emphatick words example expressed eyes Fair Penitent falling inflection flection following sentence force former give harmony hath heaven Ibid idea inflection of voice interrogative words Julius Cæsar kind last member last word latter loose sentence lower tone marked meaning mind modifying words monotone musick nature necessarily necessary nounced observed Oroonoko Othello parenthesis passage passion perceive perfect sense period phasis pleasure preceding pronounced pronunciation prose publick punctuation question reader reading require the falling require the rising rising inflection Rule seems semicolon shew short pause single words slide soul sound speaker speaking Spect Spectator stress substantive syllable taste tence thee thing thou tion tone of voice unaccented variety verb verse whole Winter's Tale
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Page 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.
Page 338 - Seems, madam ! nay, it is ; I know not seems. 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black...
Page 324 - If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it: that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 337 - I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano ; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine a sad one.
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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...