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... pitch of the voice , and of the time in which the whole word is pronounced , as well as of the loudness or soft- ness which may accompany any pitch . On whatever point of the musical scale the pronun- ciation of a syllable begins ...
... pitch of the voice , and of the time in which the whole word is pronounced , as well as of the loudness or soft- ness which may accompany any pitch . On whatever point of the musical scale the pronun- ciation of a syllable begins ...
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... pitch of voice , and with the same degree of force , but with a constant succession of the same inflec- tions , and never concluding with any other than the falling . Every one who has paid even the slightest attention to the subject ...
... pitch of voice , and with the same degree of force , but with a constant succession of the same inflec- tions , and never concluding with any other than the falling . Every one who has paid even the slightest attention to the subject ...
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... pitch of voice as the rest of the sentence , and with the inflections strongly mark- ed ; thus , ر shod ر There under ebon shades , and low - brow'd rocks ; and the inferiority of the latter method must be evident to every one of any ...
... pitch of voice as the rest of the sentence , and with the inflections strongly mark- ed ; thus , ر shod ر There under ebon shades , and low - brow'd rocks ; and the inferiority of the latter method must be evident to every one of any ...
Page 155
... pitch which we should naturally use , if we were calling to a person at a great distance , and at the same time exert so small a degree of force , as to be heard only by a person who is near us , we shall have an example of a high note ...
... pitch which we should naturally use , if we were calling to a person at a great distance , and at the same time exert so small a degree of force , as to be heard only by a person who is near us , we shall have an example of a high note ...
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... pitch of his voice , soon wea- ries himself , becomes inaudible , and altogether oppresses his hearers . Each extreme , therefore , is almost equally disagreeable and disadvan- tageous to the object of public speaking , though not ...
... pitch of his voice , soon wea- ries himself , becomes inaudible , and altogether oppresses his hearers . Each extreme , therefore , is almost equally disagreeable and disadvan- tageous to the object of public speaking , though not ...
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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.