A Grammar of Elocution1833 |
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... musical and speaking sounds . Musical sounds are such as continue for a given time on one precise point of the musical scale , and leap , as it were , from one note to another , while speaking sounds , instead of dwelling on the note ...
... musical and speaking sounds . Musical sounds are such as continue for a given time on one precise point of the musical scale , and leap , as it were , from one note to another , while speaking sounds , instead of dwelling on the note ...
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... musical and speaking sounds is , that , while the former con- tinue for some given time on one precise point of the musical scale , the latter are perpetually sliding either upwards or downwards . But , although speaking and reading ...
... musical and speaking sounds is , that , while the former con- tinue for some given time on one precise point of the musical scale , the latter are perpetually sliding either upwards or downwards . But , although speaking and reading ...
Page 160
... musical scale , and to be able also to change this key ac- * Art of Improving the Voice and Ear . London : Prowett . 1825 . cording to the nature of the subject , are some ( 160 ) Modulation of the Voice.
... musical scale , and to be able also to change this key ac- * Art of Improving the Voice and Ear . London : Prowett . 1825 . cording to the nature of the subject , are some ( 160 ) Modulation of the Voice.
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... musical scale , through which the human voice ranges in speaking , is in general exceedingly limited , * and nothing can " In a common voice there are about nine notes between its highest and its lowest tones ; the most extensive voice ...
... musical scale , through which the human voice ranges in speaking , is in general exceedingly limited , * and nothing can " In a common voice there are about nine notes between its highest and its lowest tones ; the most extensive voice ...
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accident of speech acquire action ÆNEID ÆSCHYLUS antithesis audience beginning cadence Cæsar cæsura called circumflex clause commencing series common common metre compound series Concluding Crotchet degree delivery discourse distinction Elocution emphasis of force emphasis of sense emphatic word endeavour English example expressed Fair Penitent falling inflection flection following lines following passage following sentence give GOWER STREET Grammar Greek heavy syllable human voice Interlinear Translation language Latin latter LL.D loud manner marked melody metre mind musical scale nature necessary observed organic emphasis passion pause perceive phasis phatic pitch pleasures poetry PROFESSOR pronounced pronunciation prose quantity Quaver reader reading and speaking require the rising rhythmus rising inflection rule Second Edition simple series soft sound speaker spoken style syllabic emphasis taste tence thee thing thou hast tion triple triple metre variety verb verse ر ر
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Page 162 - What man dare, I dare: Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear, The arm'd rhinoceros, or the Hyrcan tiger; Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves Shall never tremble...
Page 114 - Let it pry through the portage of the head Like the brass cannon; let the brow o'erwhelm it As fearfully as doth a galled rock O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean.
Page 123 - Go to now, ye that say, To-day or to-morrow we will go into such a city and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain : whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life ? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
Page 148 - His lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed : Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury.
Page 110 - And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye ' Or how wilt thou (Say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye : and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
Page 45 - 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 148 - Then he which had received the one talent came and said, Lord, I knew thee that thou art an hard man, reaping where thou hast not sown, and gathering where thou hast not strawed : and I was afraid, and went and hid thy talent in the earth : lo, there thou hast that is thine.
Page 42 - But can we believe a thinking being that is in a perpetual progress of improvements, and travelling on from perfection to perfection, after having just looked abroad into the works of its Creator, and made a few discoveries of his infinite goodness, wisdom, and power, must perish at her first setting out, and in the very beginning of her inquiries ? A man, considered in his present state, seems only sent into the world to propagate his kind.
Page 113 - AWAKE, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city : for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean. Shake thyself from the dust ; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem : loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion.
Page 115 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.