A Grammar of Elocution: Containing the Principles of the Arts of Reading and Speaking : Illustrated by Appropriate Exercises and Examples : Adapted to Colleges, Schools, and Private Instruction, the Whole Arranged in the Order in which it is Taught in Harvard UniversityA.H. Maltby, 1832 - 346 pàgines |
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... Practice of an art ena- bles an industrious and ambitious votary to approach perfection ; whilst idle followers are contented with the defaults of imitation . " Rush's Philosophy of the Human Voice . NEW - HAVEN : PUBLISHED BY A , H ...
... Practice of an art ena- bles an industrious and ambitious votary to approach perfection ; whilst idle followers are contented with the defaults of imitation . " Rush's Philosophy of the Human Voice . NEW - HAVEN : PUBLISHED BY A , H ...
Pàgina 5
... practice of the Greek and Roman orators . Their evidence to the importance of the art of Elocution , and to the care with which it was cultivated among them , is full and clear . I see no reason to believe , that the ancients had any ...
... practice of the Greek and Roman orators . Their evidence to the importance of the art of Elocution , and to the care with which it was cultivated among them , is full and clear . I see no reason to believe , that the ancients had any ...
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... practice on the sea shore , though they are an emphatic record of his opinions on elocution , and of his sublime de ... practices of youthful declaim- ers , who became subsequently conspicuous on the theatre of public affairs . The ...
... practice on the sea shore , though they are an emphatic record of his opinions on elocution , and of his sublime de ... practices of youthful declaim- ers , who became subsequently conspicuous on the theatre of public affairs . The ...
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... practice , are conspicuous advocates of the art of delivery and I address myself to a certain class of soci- ety , who are constantly maintaining that scholarship and well exercised reasoning powers , are all that are necessary to the ...
... practice , are conspicuous advocates of the art of delivery and I address myself to a certain class of soci- ety , who are constantly maintaining that scholarship and well exercised reasoning powers , are all that are necessary to the ...
Pàgina 10
... practice . The student's certain road to emi- nence is by this path alone . whole experience as a teacher " Sic itur ad astra . " My confirms me in this opinion . JONATHAN BARBER . Ery CONTENTS . Page . Dedication , 3 Preface , 5 10 ...
... practice . The student's certain road to emi- nence is by this path alone . whole experience as a teacher " Sic itur ad astra . " My confirms me in this opinion . JONATHAN BARBER . Ery CONTENTS . Page . Dedication , 3 Preface , 5 10 ...
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accented agreeable articulation aspiration Brutus cadence Cæsar called ceived cern concrete consonant degree delivery described diatonic scale discourse discrete downward slide earth effect Elocution Elocutionist emphasis employed equal wave example exercise expression extended quantity falling ditone falling slide fifth force forcible give Harfleur hast hath heard heart heaven high note Human Voice intervals light long quantity Lord marked marked radical measure median stress ments monotony natural o'er octave pauses percussion persons plaintive practice prolonged pronounced pronunciation prosody public speaking quire racter radical pitch radical stress rise and fall rising slide semitone sentence short soul speak speaker speech student sylla syllables TABLE OF CONSONANT TABLE OF VOWEL thee thine thing third thou art thought throne tion tone unequal wave unto utterance vanish vocal voice vowel elements vowel sounds words Δ Δ Δ ΙΔ
Passatges populars
Pàgina 164 - British earth, that the ground on which he treads is holy, and consecrated by the genius of universal emancipation. No matter in what language his doom may have been pronounced; no matter what complexion incompatible with freedom, an Indian or an African sun may have burnt upon him; no matter in what disastrous battle his liberty may have been cloven down; no matter with what solemnities he may have been devoted upon the...
Pàgina 135 - Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain, Here earth and water, seem to strive again ; Not chaos-like together crushed and bruised, But as the world harmoniously confused: Where order in variety we see, And where, though all things differ, all agree.
Pàgina 149 - Love framed with Mirth a gay fantastic round: Loose were her tresses seen, her zone unbound ; And he, amidst his frolic play, As if he would the charming air repay, Shook thousand odors from his dewy wings.
Pàgina 113 - Hovered thy spirit o'er thy sorrowing son, Wretch even then, life's journey just begun ? Perhaps thou gavest me, though unfelt, a kiss ; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss ; Ah, that maternal smile, it answers yes...
Pàgina 153 - Shylock, we would have moneys : ' you say so ; You, that did void your rheum upon my beard And foot me as you spurn a stranger cur Over your threshold : moneys is your suit. What should I say to you ? Should I not say ' Hath a dog money ? is it possible A cur can lend three thousand ducats...
Pàgina 177 - I conjure you, by that which you profess, Howe'er you come to know it, answer me: Though you untie the winds and let them fight Against the churches; though the yesty waves Confound and swallow navigation up; Though bladed corn be lodged and trees blown down; Though castles topple on their warders...
Pàgina 49 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision.
Pàgina 152 - Reserved him to more wrath ; for now the thought Both of lost happiness and lasting pain Torments him. Round he throws his baleful eyes, That witnessed huge affliction and dismay, Mixed with obdurate pride and steadfast hate.
Pàgina 165 - When therefore the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John, (though Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples,) He left Judea, and departed again into Galilee.
Pàgina 86 - Homer was the greater genius, Virgil the better artist. In one we most admire the man, in the other the work. Homer hurries and transports us with a commanding impetuosity, Virgil leads us with an attractive majesty. Homer scatters with a generous profusion, Virgil bestows with a careful magnificence.