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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... rests , between sentences , and the parts of sentences , ac- cording to their proper quantity or proportion , as they are ... rest and pauses , suppose them to be hints for a dif- ferent modulation of voice , or rules for regulating the ...
... rests , between sentences , and the parts of sentences , ac- cording to their proper quantity or proportion , as they are ... rest and pauses , suppose them to be hints for a dif- ferent modulation of voice , or rules for regulating the ...
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... rest of the words of the sentence ; but if the modifying words precede the word modified , the modifying words are distinguished from each other by a pause , but not from the word modified ; and if the modifying words succeed the word ...
... rest of the words of the sentence ; but if the modifying words precede the word modified , the modifying words are distinguished from each other by a pause , but not from the word modified ; and if the modifying words succeed the word ...
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... rest of the nation ; and , by these and other means , of establishing their " dominion under the government , and with the fa- " vour of a family who were foreigners ; and there- " fore might believe that they were established on the ...
... rest of the nation ; and , by these and other means , of establishing their " dominion under the government , and with the fa- " vour of a family who were foreigners ; and there- " fore might believe that they were established on the ...
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... rest would be unable to guess what the " ceremony represented or intended . " Though this sentence forms perfect sense at vicar , the critick af- firms , that the succeeding members are so closely ' connected with the preceding , that ...
... rest would be unable to guess what the " ceremony represented or intended . " Though this sentence forms perfect sense at vicar , the critick af- firms , that the succeeding members are so closely ' connected with the preceding , that ...
Strona 57
... rest , contrary to the truth of the case . I am perfectly of opinion with this ingenious gram- marian , with respect to the propriety of placing a pause in speaking , if not in writing , between the last noun and the verb , but for very ...
... rest , contrary to the truth of the case . I am perfectly of opinion with this ingenious gram- marian , with respect to the propriety of placing a pause in speaking , if not in writing , between the last noun and the verb , but for very ...
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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...