A Grammar of Elocution: Containing the Principles of the Arts of Reading and Speaking; Illustrated by Appropriate Exercises and Examples ...A. H. Maltby, 1830 - 344 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 3
... 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 ...
Pàgina 4
... practice on the sea shore , though they are an em- phatic record of his opinions on elocution , and of his sub- lime ... practices of the youth- ful declaimers , who became subsequently conspicuous on the theatre of public affairs . The ...
... practice on the sea shore , though they are an em- phatic record of his opinions on elocution , and of his sub- lime ... practices of the youth- ful declaimers , who became subsequently conspicuous on the theatre of public affairs . The ...
Pàgina 5
... practice , are conspicuous advocates of the art of delivery and I address myself to a certain class of society , 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 society , who are constantly maintaining that scholarship and well exercised reasoning powers , are all that are necessary to the ...
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... practice . The student's certain road to eminence is by this path alone . " Sic itur ad astra . " My whole ex- perience as a teacher , confirms me in this opinion . JONATHAN BARBER . CONTENTS . PAGE . DEDICATION , 1 Preface , 3 8 PREFACE .
... practice . The student's certain road to eminence is by this path alone . " Sic itur ad astra . " My whole ex- perience as a teacher , confirms me in this opinion . JONATHAN BARBER . CONTENTS . PAGE . DEDICATION , 1 Preface , 3 8 PREFACE .
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A Grammar of Elocution: Containing the Principles of the Arts of Reading and ... Jonathan Barber Visualització completa - 1830 |
A Grammar of Elocution: Containing the Principles of the Arts of Reading and ... Jonathan Barber Visualització completa - 1830 |
A Grammar of Elocution: Containing the Principles of the Arts of Reading and ... Jonathan Barber Visualització completa - 1830 |
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accented agreeable articulation aspiration Brutus cadence Cæsar called ceive cern concrete consonants degree delivery described discourse discrete downward slide earth effect elementary sounds Elocution Elocutionist emphasis emphatic employed equal wave example exercise expression eyes falling ditone falling slide fifth force forcible give Harfleur hast hath heard heart heaven high note Human Voice intervals light long quantity Lord loud marked marked radical measure median stress ments monotony natural nerally o'er octave pauses percussion persons plaintive practice pronounced pronunciation prosody public speaking quire racter radical pitch radical stress reading rise and fall rising slide semitone sentence short simple melody soul speak speaker speech student sylla syllables TABLE OF CONSONANT TABLE OF VOWEL thee thine thing third thou art thought tion tone tremor unto utterance vanish vocal voice vowel elements vowel sounds words Δ Δ Δ ΙΔ
Passatges populars
Pàgina 111 - 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 182 - She saith unto him, Yea, Lord : I believe that thou art the Christ the Son of God, which should come into the world.
Pàgina 133 - 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 147 - 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 odours from his dewy wings.
Pàgina 111 - 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 147 - But soon he saw the brisk awakening viol, Whose sweet, entrancing voice he loved the best. They would have thought who heard the strain, They saw in Tempe's...
Pàgina 150 - 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...
Pàgina 85 - Homer was 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 constant stream.
Pàgina 47 - 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.