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Every kind of writing is governed by this law , and it is only by the greatest care
and attention you will be able to find out where you should place the emphasis
properly . To deliver one word after another without , would be like expecting to ...
Every kind of writing is governed by this law , and it is only by the greatest care
and attention you will be able to find out where you should place the emphasis
properly . To deliver one word after another without , would be like expecting to ...
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We may add to these judicious remarks a few illustrations of the different kinds of
emphasis to which it is important to give attention . In some cases , where a
contrast of sense is involved , emphasis is equivalent to strongly accented
syllables ...
We may add to these judicious remarks a few illustrations of the different kinds of
emphasis to which it is important to give attention . In some cases , where a
contrast of sense is involved , emphasis is equivalent to strongly accented
syllables ...
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This arises from the fact that there is no violent contortion of the features ; no
forced attitude ; no special mark of any kind ; but it stands before us just as the
natural thing should . It is so with the reader or speaker who seeks to be natural .
This arises from the fact that there is no violent contortion of the features ; no
forced attitude ; no special mark of any kind ; but it stands before us just as the
natural thing should . It is so with the reader or speaker who seeks to be natural .
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To rattle on without paying strict attention to the stops or the meaning of the
author is like playing a musical instrument without giving proper care to the kind
of notes . While it is , therefore , proper to take the time as the author marks it , it is
a ...
To rattle on without paying strict attention to the stops or the meaning of the
author is like playing a musical instrument without giving proper care to the kind
of notes . While it is , therefore , proper to take the time as the author marks it , it is
a ...
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... this plan you will save yourself from any unnatural strain , and so prevent
yourself from weakening or distressing your voice - or , what is worse , bringing
on hoarseness , which means , in the long run , weakness and inability of every
kind .
... this plan you will save yourself from any unnatural strain , and so prevent
yourself from weakening or distressing your voice - or , what is worse , bringing
on hoarseness , which means , in the long run , weakness and inability of every
kind .
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Página 60 - For I can raise no money by vile means: By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring From the hard hands of peasants their' vile trash By any indirection.
Página 82 - Dark-heaving; boundless, endless, and sublime — The image of Eternity — the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Página 186 - Caesar carelessly but nod on him. He had a fever when he was in Spain, And when the fit was on him, I did mark How he did shake...
Página 152 - God ! sing, ye meadow-streams, with gladsome voice! Ye pine-groves, with your soft and soul-like sounds ! And they, too, have a voice, yon piles of snow, And in their perilous fall, shall thunder, God...
Página 65 - I'll leave you till night; you are welcome to Elsinore. Ros. Good my lord ! [Exeunt Rosencrantz and Giiildenstern. Ham. Ay, so, God be wi' ye :—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...
Página 57 - WE watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life . Kept heaving to and fro. So silently we...
Página 151 - Risest from forth thy silent sea of pines, How silently ! Around thee and above Deep is the air and dark, substantial, black, An ebon mass : methinks thou piercest it As with a wedge ! But when I look again, It is thine own calm home, thy crystal shrine, Thy habitation from eternity ' 0 dread and silent Mount ! I gazed upon thee Till thou, still present to the bodily sense, Didst vanish from my thought : entranced in prayer 1 worshipped the Invisible alone.
Página 72 - The angels, not half so happy in heaven, Went envying her and me; Yes! that was the reason (as all men know, In this kingdom by the sea) That the wind came out of the cloud by night, Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.
Página 82 - O, young Lochinvar is come out of the west, Through all the wide Border his steed was the best ; And save his good broad-sword he weapon had none, He rode all unarmed, and he rode all alone. So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war, There never was knight like the young Lochinvar.
Página 21 - One touch to her hand, and one word in her ear. When they reached the hall door, and the charger stood near; So light to the croupe the fair lady he swung, So light to the saddle before her he sprung! "She is won! we are gone, over bank, bush, and scaur: They'll have fleet steeds that follow,
Información bibliográfica
| Título | The Standard speaker and elocutionist Kirton's Standard Reciters |
| Autor | John William Kirton |
| Editor | Ward, Lock and Company, 1880 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Oxford |
| Digitalizado | 28 Jul. 2006 |
| Largo | 248 páginas |
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