A Rhetorical Grammar: In which Improprieties in Reading and Speaking are Detected, and the True Sources of Elegant Pronunciation are Pointed Out : with a Complete Analysis of the Voice, Showing Its Specific Modifications, and how They May be Applied to Different Species of Sentences and the Several Figures of Rhetoric : to which are Added Outlines of Composition, Or Plain Rules for Writing Orations and Speaking Them in Public |
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... adopt them , especially to those advanced in life , that I was generally obliged to follow the old method , ( if it may be called so ) " read as I read , without any reason for it . " - But without pretending to the gift of prophecy , I ...
... adopt them , especially to those advanced in life , that I was generally obliged to follow the old method , ( if it may be called so ) " read as I read , without any reason for it . " - But without pretending to the gift of prophecy , I ...
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... adopted in practice . The utility of them he is fully persuaded of by a thousand experiments ; but of this the public at large are undoubtedly the best judges . RHETORICAL GRAMMAR . THAT part of rhetorick , which relates INTRODUCTION . XV.
... adopted in practice . The utility of them he is fully persuaded of by a thousand experiments ; but of this the public at large are undoubtedly the best judges . RHETORICAL GRAMMAR . THAT part of rhetorick , which relates INTRODUCTION . XV.
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... adopted , because , though the piece may have the name of a tragedy , the scene may be really comedy . The only rule there- fore , that can be given , is a very indefinite one ; name- ly , that thy ought always to be pronounced so as to ...
... adopted , because , though the piece may have the name of a tragedy , the scene may be really comedy . The only rule there- fore , that can be given , is a very indefinite one ; name- ly , that thy ought always to be pronounced so as to ...
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... adopted ; but it is perhaps impossible to refuse them a place in spoken language , where the subject is com- mon and familiar ; though even here they should be indulged as little as possible : but be this as it may , they certainly tend ...
... adopted ; but it is perhaps impossible to refuse them a place in spoken language , where the subject is com- mon and familiar ; though even here they should be indulged as little as possible : but be this as it may , they certainly tend ...
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... adopted by writers and printers , there is not the least doubt but the art of reading might be greatly facilitat- ed and improved . But the business of this essay is not so much to construct a new system of punctuation , as to endeav ...
... adopted by writers and printers , there is not the least doubt but the art of reading might be greatly facilitat- ed and improved . But the business of this essay is not so much to construct a new system of punctuation , as to endeav ...
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Common terms and phrases
ablative absolute accent admit Anacoenosis arguments asyndeton attention beauty begins Cæsar cæsura called character Cicero circumflex Clodius comma common composition considered Demosthenes depends diphthong discourse distinct distinguished Elements of Elocution emphasis emphatic words endeavour example express falling inflection figure following sentence force former give higher tone honour Ibid idea inflection of voice instance interrogation interrogative words Julius Cæsar kind language latter likewise long pause loose sentence loud lower tone manner Mark Antony marked meaning Milo mind monotone nature necessary object observed orator ornament Paradise Lost particular passage passion perceive perfect sense period person phatical Pompey pronounced pronunciation proper punctuation question Quintilian reader reading reason requires rhetoric rising inflection rule says semicolon short pause slide sound speaker speaking Spect Spectator style syllable tence thing tion tone of voice variety verb verse virtue vowels whole writing
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Page 226 - And when the sun begins to fling His flaring beams, me, Goddess, bring To arched walks of twilight groves, And shadows brown that Sylvan loves Of pine, or monumental oak, Where the rude axe with heaved stroke Was never heard the Nymphs to daunt, Or fright them from their hallowed haunt.
Page 176 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen ; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Page 43 - O thou that, with surpassing glory crowned, Look'st from thy sole dominion like the god Of this new World — at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminished heads — to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 Sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy Sphere...
Page 172 - While from the bounded level of our mind Short views we take, nor see the lengths behind : But more...
Page 244 - Annual for me, the grape, the rose renew The juice nectareous, and the balmy dew; For me, the mine a thousand treasures brings; For me, health gushes from a thousand springs; Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise; My foot-stool earth, my canopy the skies.
Page 176 - All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good: And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right.
Page 177 - When the proud steed shall know why man restrains His fiery course, or drives him o'er the plains ; When the dull ox, why now he breaks the clod, Is now a victim, and now Egypt's god : Then shall man's pride and dulness comprehend His actions', passions', being's use and end ; Why doing, suffering, check'd, impell'd; and why This hour a slave, the next a deity.
Page 169 - Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky With hideous ruin and combustion down To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In adamantine* chains and penal fire, Who durst defy the Omnipotent to arms.
Page 242 - So cowardly ; and, but for these vile guns, He would himself have been a soldier.
Page 243 - tis true, this god did shake : His coward lips did from their colour fly, And that same eye whose bend doth awe the world Did lose his lustre : I did hear him groan : Ay, and that tongue of his that bade the Romans Mark him and write his speeches in their books, Alas, it cried ' Give me some drink, Titinius,