The Practice of Elocution, Or A Course of Exercises for Acquiring the Several Requisites of a Good DeliveryJ. Richardson, 1826 - 213 páginas |
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Abraham Slender Anger Anne ARGUMENTATIVE MANNER blood BREATH CONSONANTS called chough clause clouds cohobate Conclusive Accents coward death decemvirs Delight denote downward accent Dread ELOCUTION emphatic accent Exultation fair Falstaff father fear feeling Firmness force give Grief hand happiness heard heart Heaven honour Indignation inflections Interrogative Words italic Justice Shallow king letter light live Lord LORD BYRON master Fenton meaning MEDITATIVE MANNER mind mingled Narrative manner nature o'er Open vowels palatal palatal z passions Pity PLAINTIVE EXPRESSION Plaintive manner pleasure pride Prince Henry pronounced pupil rate of utterance reader reading relaxes Scorn sentence SHAKSPEARE shut sounds Sir Archy Solemnity soul speak speaker Suspensive and Conclusive sweet syllables tence thee thing thou thought tion Tom Long tone tongue trembling triphthong unaccented syllables upward VEHEMENT EXPRESSION virtue voice VOICE CONSONANTS words youth
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Página 85 - And will, no doubt, with reasons answer you. I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts : I am no orator, as Brutus is ; But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man...
Página 82 - When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening
Página 196 - With eyes severe and beard of formal cut, Full of wise saws and modern instances; And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon.
Página 116 - The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places : how are the mighty fallen ! Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon ; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.
Página 82 - Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower...
Página 93 - Why has not man a microscopic eye ? For this plain reason, man is not a fly.
Página 80 - And there came a traveller unto the rich man, and he spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd, to dress for the wayfaring man that was come unto him; but took the poor man's lamb, and dressed it for the man that was come to him.
Página 182 - I call upon the honour of your lordships to reverence the dignity of your ancestors, and to maintain your own. I call upon the spirit and humanity of my country to vindicate the national character.
Página 60 - See, what a grace was seated on this brow; Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself; An eye like Mars, to threaten and command; A station like the herald Mercury, New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill; A combination, and a form, indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man : This was your husband.
Página 116 - Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided ; they were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions.