Elements of Elocution: In which the Principles of Reading and Speaking are Investigated ... with Directions for Strengthening and Modulating the Voice ... to which is Added, a Complete System of the Passions; Showing how They Effect 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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Page 37
... couplet : Earth smiles around with boundless bounty blest , And heaven beholds its image in his breast . Ibid . Here though the melody invites to a pause at beholds , propriety requires it at heaven . Rule V. Whatever member intervenes ...
... couplet : Earth smiles around with boundless bounty blest , And heaven beholds its image in his breast . Ibid . Here though the melody invites to a pause at beholds , propriety requires it at heaven . Rule V. Whatever member intervenes ...
Page 49
... couplet we never see a pause after the two words some in the first line , nor after the words those and contentment in the second ; and yet nothing can be more evident than that a short pause after these words tends greatly to place the ...
... couplet we never see a pause after the two words some in the first line , nor after the words those and contentment in the second ; and yet nothing can be more evident than that a short pause after these words tends greatly to place the ...
Page 71
... couplet of Pope , What the weak head with strongest bias rules Is pride ; the never - failing vice of fools . If in this couplet , I say , we are directed to lay the falling inflexion on pride , we need only form the word into this ...
... couplet of Pope , What the weak head with strongest bias rules Is pride ; the never - failing vice of fools . If in this couplet , I say , we are directed to lay the falling inflexion on pride , we need only form the word into this ...
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... couplet very pro- perly marked with the note of interrogation , and the second couplet as properly left without it . But the third couplet , which is no more a question than the second , has a note of interrogation annexed to it ; and ...
... couplet very pro- perly marked with the note of interrogation , and the second couplet as properly left without it . But the third couplet , which is no more a question than the second , has a note of interrogation annexed to it ; and ...
Page 172
... couplet from Pope : ' Tis hard to say , if greater want of skill Appear in writing or in judging ill . The words writing and judging are opposed to each other , and are therefore the emphatical words : where we may likewise observe ...
... couplet from Pope : ' Tis hard to say , if greater want of skill Appear in writing or in judging ill . The words writing and judging are opposed to each other , and are therefore the emphatical words : where we may likewise observe ...
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accented syllable adjective admit adopt the falling agreeable antithesis antithetic object cadence Cæsar cæsura called Cicero colon comma connexion convey couplet Demosthenes different inflexions distinction distinguish emphasis emphatic words example expressed eyes Fair Penitent falling inflexion flexion following sentence force former give harmony hath heaven Ibid idea inflexion of voice interrogative words Julius Cæsar kind last member last word latter loose sentence lower tone manner marked meaning mind modifying words monotone nature necessarily necessary nounced observed Oroonoko Othello parenthesis passage passion perceive period phasis phatic pleasure preceding pronounced pronunciation prose punctuation question reader reading require the falling requires the rising rising inflexion Rule seems semicolon Shaks Shakspeare's short pause single word 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