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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... thought too long to be pronounced without a pause , we may more easily place one at effects than between any other words ; because , though produces is mod . ified by every one of the succeeding words , taken * Buffier Grammaire , p ...
... thought too long to be pronounced without a pause , we may more easily place one at effects than between any other words ; because , though produces is mod . ified by every one of the succeeding words , taken * Buffier Grammaire , p ...
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... thought as is necessary to our more serious employments , nor at the same time suffer the mind to sink into that negligence and remissness , which are apt to accompany our more sensual delights . — Spec- tator , No. 411 . In the first ...
... thought as is necessary to our more serious employments , nor at the same time suffer the mind to sink into that negligence and remissness , which are apt to accompany our more sensual delights . — Spec- tator , No. 411 . In the first ...
Page 102
... thought is run into another which does not really belong to it , the sense must be injured ; and though the mind is often too well in- formed of the subject to be much at a loss for the sense , let the punctuation be what it will , yet ...
... thought is run into another which does not really belong to it , the sense must be injured ; and though the mind is often too well in- formed of the subject to be much at a loss for the sense , let the punctuation be what it will , yet ...
Page 121
... thought use- less that so much pains has been bestowed on this species of sentence . This consideration may encour- age us to push our inquiries still farther into this laborious part of the subject ; as those readers who are disgusted ...
... thought use- less that so much pains has been bestowed on this species of sentence . This consideration may encour- age us to push our inquiries still farther into this laborious part of the subject ; as those readers who are disgusted ...
Page 123
... thoughts of man ; every thing that is truly great and astonish- ing has a place in it ; the whole system of the intellectual world , the chaos and the creation , heaven , earth , and hell , en- ter into the constitution of his poem ...
... thoughts of man ; every thing that is truly great and astonish- ing has a place in it ; the whole system of the intellectual world , the chaos and the creation , heaven , earth , and hell , en- ter into the constitution of his poem ...
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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...