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 |
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... reason of this is , that as many subjects , finite verbs , or adjuncts as there are in a sentence , so ma- ny distinct sentences are actually implied ; as the first example is equivalent to , My hopes all centre in you , my fears all ...
... reason of this is , that as many subjects , finite verbs , or adjuncts as there are in a sentence , so ma- ny distinct sentences are actually implied ; as the first example is equivalent to , My hopes all centre in you , my fears all ...
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... reason , improves the beautiful part of our species in every thing that is laudable ; so nothing is more destructive to them , when it is governed by vanity and folly . When a sentence can be divided into two parts , each of which parts ...
... reason , improves the beautiful part of our species in every thing that is laudable ; so nothing is more destructive to them , when it is governed by vanity and folly . When a sentence can be divided into two parts , each of which parts ...
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... reasons for placing the points with justness and precision , ad- mits of placing a comma in a simple sentence— " Quand les propositions sont trop longues pour être " enoncées de suite avec aisance . " And one of our best English ...
... reasons for placing the points with justness and precision , ad- mits of placing a comma in a simple sentence— " Quand les propositions sont trop longues pour être " enoncées de suite avec aisance . " And one of our best English ...
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... reason of a thing , must either suit all cases or none . Whatever , therefore , may be the integrity of gram- matical connection to the eye , certain it is that the ear perceives neither obstruction nor obscurity in a pause between ...
... reason of a thing , must either suit all cases or none . Whatever , therefore , may be the integrity of gram- matical connection to the eye , certain it is that the ear perceives neither obstruction nor obscurity in a pause between ...
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... reason can be given , why this verb should be separated from its noun , that will not be equally applicable to every other verb in the language . The general reluctance , however , at admitting a pause to the eye , between the ...
... reason can be given , why this verb should be separated from its noun , that will not be equally applicable to every other verb in the language . The general reluctance , however , at admitting a pause to the eye , between the ...
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Strona 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.
Strona 338 - Seems, madam ! nay, it is ; I know not seems. 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black...
Strona 324 - If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it: that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.
Strona 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...
Strona 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...
Strona 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...
Strona 337 - I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano ; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine a sad one.
Strona 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...
Strona 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...
Strona 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...