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 Affect the Countenance, Tone of Voice, and Gesture of the Body : Exemplified by a Copious Selection of the Most Striking Passages of Shakespeare : the Whole Illustrated by Copper-plates Explaining the Nature of Accent, Emphasis, Inflection, and Cadence |
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... pronounced even with solemnity and energy , by most people , with- out once taking breath ; but if we amplify these ... pronounce the sentence with force and ease , without some interval for respiration ; -for in- stance , if we had the ...
... pronounced even with solemnity and energy , by most people , with- out once taking breath ; but if we amplify these ... pronounce the sentence with force and ease , without some interval for respiration ; -for in- stance , if we had the ...
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... pronounced so as to preserve a perfect equality of time between every word , and consequent- ly , that some words admit of longer intervals than others ; we need only pronounce a short simple sen- tence in the different ways we did the ...
... pronounced so as to preserve a perfect equality of time between every word , and consequent- ly , that some words admit of longer intervals than others ; we need only pronounce a short simple sen- tence in the different ways we did the ...
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... pronounced : this will appear evidently from the amplified sentence already produced ; which , though not a very common , is a very possible ex- ample ; and rules founded on the reason of a thing , must either suit all cases or none ...
... pronounced : this will appear evidently from the amplified sentence already produced ; which , though not a very common , is a very possible ex- ample ; and rules founded on the reason of a thing , must either suit all cases or none ...
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... pronounced ; for this reason , when the words , from their signification , re- quire to be distinctly pointed out , that is , to convey objects distinguished from each other , however fre quent and numerous the pauses may be , they are ...
... pronounced ; for this reason , when the words , from their signification , re- quire to be distinctly pointed out , that is , to convey objects distinguished from each other , however fre quent and numerous the pauses may be , they are ...
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... pronounced together , and at the same time have no such distinct parts as immediately suggest where we ought to pause , the only rule that can be given is , not to sepa- rate such words as are more united than those that we do not ...
... pronounced together , and at the same time have no such distinct parts as immediately suggest where we ought to pause , the only rule that can be given is , not to sepa- rate such words as are more united than those that we do not ...
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adjective admit adopt the falling agreeable antithesis antithetick object cadence Cęsar cęsura 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 Julius Cęsar 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 324 - 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 338 - Seems, madam ! nay, it is ; I know not seems. 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black...
Page 324 - If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it: that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.
Page 324 - I'd have you do it ever: when you sing, I'd have you buy and sell so; so give alms; Pray so ; and, for the ordering your affairs, To sing them too : When you do dance, I wish you A wave o...
Page 266 - OF Man's First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death into the World, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat, Sing Heav'nly Muse, that on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That Shepherd, who first taught the chosen Seed, In the Beginning how the Heav'ns and Earth Rose out of Chaos...
Page 351 - I'll leave you till night: you are welcome to Elsinore. Ros. Good my lord ! [Exeunt Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Ham. Ay, so, God be wi' you : — Now I am alone. O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I ! Is it not monstrous, that this player here, But in a fiction, in a dream of passion, Could force his soul so to his own conceit...
Page 337 - I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano ; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine a sad one.
Page 295 - I had a thing to say, — but let it go : The sun is in the heaven, and the proud day, Attended with the pleasures of the world, Is all too wanton, and too full of gawds, To give me audience : — If the midnight bell Did, with his iron tongue and brazen mouth, Sound on into the drowsy race of night...
Page 362 - Julius bleed for justice' sake? What villain touch'd his body, that did stab, And not for justice? What, shall one of us, That struck the foremost man of all this world, But for supporting robbers; shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes? And sell the mighty space of our large...
Page 338 - 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...