Elements of Elocution in which the Principles of Reading and Speaking are Investigated ...: 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 |
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... seems to signify that pronunciation which is given to words when they are arranged into sentences and form discourse . Pronunciation , in its largest sense , may signify the utterance of words , either taken separately , or in ...
... seems to signify that pronunciation which is given to words when they are arranged into sentences and form discourse . Pronunciation , in its largest sense , may signify the utterance of words , either taken separately , or in ...
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... seem too intimately connected to admit a pause , are - the article and the substantive , the substantive and the ... seems divisible if occasion re- quire . That a substantive in the nominative case may be separated from the verb it ...
... seem too intimately connected to admit a pause , are - the article and the substantive , the substantive and the ... seems divisible if occasion re- quire . That a substantive in the nominative case may be separated from the verb it ...
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... seem specifically different from the pause between the nominative case and the verb ; that the same pause , therefore , to the eye should be u- sed between both , seems repugnant to a feeling of the different kind of connection that ...
... seem specifically different from the pause between the nominative case and the verb ; that the same pause , therefore , to the eye should be u- sed between both , seems repugnant to a feeling of the different kind of connection that ...
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... seems no impropriety in placing a long pause : thus , in the proverbial sentence , As the day lengthens the cold strengthens : we may place a comma , and even a semicolon , at lengthens , without appearing to injure the sense ; but if ...
... seems no impropriety in placing a long pause : thus , in the proverbial sentence , As the day lengthens the cold strengthens : we may place a comma , and even a semicolon , at lengthens , without appearing to injure the sense ; but if ...
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... seem to form a class , before the word modified by them is express- ed or understood ; whereas , in the succeeding part of the sentence , the word praise is understood , and the modifying words , universal and unlimited , are ...
... seem to form a class , before the word modified by them is express- ed or understood ; whereas , in the succeeding part of the sentence , the word praise is understood , and the modifying words , universal and unlimited , are ...
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ablative absolute adjective admit adopt the falling agreeable antithesis antithetick object cadence Cæsar cæsura Cicero comma commencing connected convey couplet Demosthenes different inflections distinction distinguish emphasis emphatick words Euboea example expressed eyes Fair Penitent falling inflection flection following sentence force former give harmony hath heaven Ibid idea inflection of voice interrogative words kind last member last word latter loose sentence lower tone marked meaning mind modifying words monotone musick nature necessarily necessary nounced observed Oroonoko Othello parenthesis passage passion perceive perfect sense period phasis pleasure preceding pronounced pronunciation prose publick punctuation question reader reading require the falling require the rising rising inflection Rule seems semicolon shew short pause single words slide soul sound speaker speaking Spect Spectator stress substantive syllable taste tence thee thing thou tion tone of voice unaccented variety verb verse whole Winter's Tale
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Page 329 - Took it in snuff; and still he smil'd and talk'd ; And, as the soldiers bore dead bodies by, He call'd them untaught knaves, unmannerly, To bring a slovenly unhandsome corse Betwixt the wind and his nobility.
Page 336 - Seems, madam ! nay, it is ; I know not seems. 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black...
Page 315 - Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile, Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court? Here feel we but the penalty of Adam, — The seasons...
Page 328 - My liege, I did deny no prisoners. But, I remember, when the fight was done, When I was dry with rage, and extreme toil, Breathless and faint, leaning upon my sword, Came there a certain lord, neat, trimly...
Page 322 - 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.
Page 318 - There are a sort of men, whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pond; And do a wilful stillness entertain, With purpose to be dress'd in an opinion Of wisdom, gravity, profound conceit; As who should say, ' I am Sir Oracle, And, when I ope my lips, let no dog bark!
Page 283 - HENCE, loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born In Stygian cave forlorn 'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights unholy! Find out some uncouth cell, Where brooding Darkness spreads his jealous wings, And the night-raven sings; There, under ebon shades and low-browed rocks, As ragged as thy locks, In dark Cimmerian desert ever dwell.
Page 172 - His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand...
Page 321 - It is to be all made of fantasy, All made of passion, and all made of wishes; All adoration, duty, and observance, All humbleness, all patience, and impatience, All purity, all trial, all observance; And so am I for Phebe.
Page 336 - 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...