The Rhetorical Reader; Consisting of Choice Specimens in Oratorical Composition in Prose and Verse1862 - 432 pages |
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... PAUSES , EMPHASES , AND INFLECTIONS SUITABLE TO EVERY VARIETY OF SENTENCE , ILLUSTRATED BY APPOSITE EXAMPLES . By J. H. HINDMARSH , Late Teacher of Elocution in the Perth Academy , and University of St. Andrew's and Compiler of the ...
... PAUSES , EMPHASES , AND INFLECTIONS SUITABLE TO EVERY VARIETY OF SENTENCE , ILLUSTRATED BY APPOSITE EXAMPLES . By J. H. HINDMARSH , Late Teacher of Elocution in the Perth Academy , and University of St. Andrew's and Compiler of the ...
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... pause , he will fail to communicate to his hearers the high antithetic beauty of the prayer , namely , " in thy supreme , august , omni- potent comprehension , shall no man living be justified . " Mr. Walker , then , it will be seen , was.
... pause , he will fail to communicate to his hearers the high antithetic beauty of the prayer , namely , " in thy supreme , august , omni- potent comprehension , shall no man living be justified . " Mr. Walker , then , it will be seen , was.
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... pause is absolutely necessary at the end of every line , proportionate to the immediate or remote connection sub- sisting between the two lines . " If this be conceded - and who will not concede it ? -the correct reading of verse is ...
... pause is absolutely necessary at the end of every line , proportionate to the immediate or remote connection sub- sisting between the two lines . " If this be conceded - and who will not concede it ? -the correct reading of verse is ...
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... Pauses and Inflections.- And , as forming a kind of whole on a subject of paramount im- portance to the young , -towards the conclusion of the volume will be found a series of extracts from Matthews , Dr. Olinthus Gregory , Bowdler ...
... Pauses and Inflections.- And , as forming a kind of whole on a subject of paramount im- portance to the young , -towards the conclusion of the volume will be found a series of extracts from Matthews , Dr. Olinthus Gregory , Bowdler ...
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... Pauses , seventy consecutive Selections , compre- hending 130 pages , and necessarily containing a considerable variety of composition ; an advantage which , to this extent , he believes no other similar publication to possess . Besides ...
... Pauses , seventy consecutive Selections , compre- hending 130 pages , and necessarily containing a considerable variety of composition ; an advantage which , to this extent , he believes no other similar publication to possess . Besides ...
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a'll a'nd accent an'd arms B'ut beauty behold Black Crows blessed bosom breath Brutus Cæsar character cheerfulness Christian circumflex Concluding tone copula cried dear death Deism delight e'ye earth Elocution English EXAMPLES eyes falling inflexion father feel give Go'd grave hand happy hast hath hear heard heart Heaven honour hope human hyæna Joseph Hume kind living look Lord Lord Byron Lord Eldon m'an ma'n mind mother nature never night o'er once passion pause pity poetry poor pride pronounced pronunciation R. B. SHERIDAN requires Rhetorical rising inflexion rule Samian wine scene seemed sentence Sir Francis Burdett smile sorrow soul sound speak speech spirit Stalagmite sweet tears tender th'at thee thi's thing tho'se thou thought tion truth Twas virtue voice WASHINGTON IRVING wh'o whi'ch word