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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Pàgina 6
... feeling and judgment . But though thus destitute of what Cicero calls the " Fontes Philosophiæ e quibus illa manant , ” * their sense of the importance of delivery , is strongly dis- closed in their history . I will not dwell on the ...
... feeling and judgment . But though thus destitute of what Cicero calls the " Fontes Philosophiæ e quibus illa manant , ” * their sense of the importance of delivery , is strongly dis- closed in their history . I will not dwell on the ...
Pàgina 8
... feel the disadvantages arising from the deficiency . Hereafter young gentlemen of America , some of you will deeply re- gret your neglect of the art of delivery : when you are obliged to do that indifferently , which you might have ...
... feel the disadvantages arising from the deficiency . Hereafter young gentlemen of America , some of you will deeply re- gret your neglect of the art of delivery : when you are obliged to do that indifferently , which you might have ...
Pàgina 21
... feel asha- med of urging such plain matters of fact , were it not for our extraordinary ignorance on the subject . I never yet pronounced the vocal elements of our language , in my public lectures , without exciting the mirthful wonder ...
... feel asha- med of urging such plain matters of fact , were it not for our extraordinary ignorance on the subject . I never yet pronounced the vocal elements of our language , in my public lectures , without exciting the mirthful wonder ...
Pàgina 31
... feeling . But independent of emphasis , or the indication of any particular state of the feelings , if words are not marked by a due proportion of percussive or explosive stress , they will not be audible through an extensive space ...
... feeling . But independent of emphasis , or the indication of any particular state of the feelings , if words are not marked by a due proportion of percussive or explosive stress , they will not be audible through an extensive space ...
Pàgina 85
... feeling . On this account , it shuts up the sym- pathie's of an audience , and when excessive , is a most effective means of destroying their attention . It is not to be expected that the varied phrases of melody can be intermingled in ...
... feeling . On this account , it shuts up the sym- pathie's of an audience , and when excessive , is a most effective means of destroying their attention . It is not to be expected that the varied phrases of melody can be intermingled in ...
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accented agreeable articulation aspiration Brutus cadence Cæsar called ceived concrete consonant degree delivery described diatonic scale discourse discrete downward slide earth effect Elocution Elocutionist emphasis employed equal wave example exercise expression extended quantity eyes falling ditone falling slide father fifth force forcible give Harfleur hast hath heard heart heaven high note Human Voice intervals Jesus 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 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 word Δ Δ Δ ΙΔ
Passatges populars
Pàgina 113 - I heard the bell tolled on thy burial day, I saw the hearse that bore thee slow away, And, turning from my nursery window, drew A long, long sigh, and wept a last adieu ! But was it such ? It was.
Pàgina 113 - Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss — Ah, that maternal smile! it answers — yes. I heard the bell tolled on thy burial -day, I saw the hearse that bore thee slow away, And turning from my nursery window, drew A long, long sigh, and wept a last adieu ! But was it such?
Pàgina 184 - She saith unto him, Yea, Lord : I believe that thou art the Christ the Son of God, which should come into the world.
Pàgina 50 - On what foundation stands the warrior's pride? How just his hopes, let Swedish Charles decide; A frame of adamant, a soul of fire, No dangers fright him, and no labours tire...
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 altar of slavery, — 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 87 - the greater genius ; Virgil the better artist : in the " one, we most admire the man ; in the other, the " work. Homer hurries us with a commanding " impetuosity ; Virgil leads us with an attractive " majesty. Homer scatters with a generous profusion ; " Virgil bestows with a careful magnificence. Homer, " like the Nile, pours out his riches with a sudden " overflow ; Virgil, like a river in its banks, with a
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 184 - In the midst of life we are in death: of whom may we seek for succour, but of Thee, O Lord, who for our sins art justly displeased? Yet, O Lord God most holy, O Lord most mighty, O holy and most merciful Saviour, deliver us not into the bitter pains of eternal death.