The Art of Elocution: Or, Logical and Musical Reading and Declamation. With an Appendix Containing a Copious Practice in Oratorical, Poetical, and Dramatic Reading and Recitation; the Whole Forming a Complete Speaker, Well Adapted to Private Pupils, Classes, and the Use of SchoolsShepard, 1847 - 383 páginas |
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... never emerge from a rude state of nature ; her work would be " ferox , dura , aspera . " It is natural to man to walk erect ; but the infant is as- sisted in its earliest efforts : and though every person can walk , it is not every ...
... never emerge from a rude state of nature ; her work would be " ferox , dura , aspera . " It is natural to man to walk erect ; but the infant is as- sisted in its earliest efforts : and though every person can walk , it is not every ...
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... never be in this way at- tained . The reader's attention being fixed on his own voice , the inevitable consequence would be , that he would betray more or less his studied and artificial delivery ; and would , in the same degree ...
... never be in this way at- tained . The reader's attention being fixed on his own voice , the inevitable consequence would be , that he would betray more or less his studied and artificial delivery ; and would , in the same degree ...
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... never approve of trusting to common sense in the treatment of diseases . Neither , again , would the architect recom- mend a reliance on common sense alone in building , nor the musician in music , to the neglect of those systems of ...
... never approve of trusting to common sense in the treatment of diseases . Neither , again , would the architect recom- mend a reliance on common sense alone in building , nor the musician in music , to the neglect of those systems of ...
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... never could enunciate at all such words as black , brandy , claim , draw , flow , grow , throw , strike , and other words com- mencing with two or three successive consonants without the interposition of any vowel : for it will be clear ...
... never could enunciate at all such words as black , brandy , claim , draw , flow , grow , throw , strike , and other words com- mencing with two or three successive consonants without the interposition of any vowel : for it will be clear ...
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... never before guilty of such a series of follies ; in which every species of absurdity was accompanied by a specious gravity , which rendered it infinitely amusing . In this passage , unless the syllables ies and ious 44 ART OF ELOCUTION .
... never before guilty of such a series of follies ; in which every species of absurdity was accompanied by a specious gravity , which rendered it infinitely amusing . In this passage , unless the syllables ies and ious 44 ART OF ELOCUTION .
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Términos y frases comunes
accented Adrastus antithesis arms articulation beauty blood breath Brutus Cæsar Cassius character Christian close common compound inflections dark death delivery diphthongal distinct doth ducats earth elementary sounds emphasis of force emphasis of sense EXAMPLES exercise expression falling inflection feeling gesture give Godfrey of Bouillon grace hand Harfleur hath heard heart heaven Helon high pitch honor hope human voice Intonation king language legato light live Lochinvar Lord marked MEDON melody ment mercy middle pause middle pitch mind nature Netherby never noble o'er orator passage passion perfect practice presto pronominal phrase prose prosodial reading rest rhythm rising inflection Roche Rome rules sentence Shylock simple solemn soul speak speaker speech spirit style swelling syllables system of Elocution thee thought tion tone tonic sound utterance Vandenhoff's Venice verse voice vowel weep word
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Página 283 - When thou art gone, the solemn brood of care Plod on, and each one as before will chase His favorite phantom; yet all these shall leave Their mirth and their employments, and shall come And make their bed with thee.
Página 334 - You have done that you should be sorry for. There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats, For I am arm'd so strong in honesty That they pass by me as the idle wind, Which I respect not.
Página 185 - Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes, and groves ; * And ye that on the sands with printless foot Do chase the ebbing Neptune, and do fly him, When he comes back...
Página 353 - With a bare bodkin ? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of ? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all...
Página 358 - The quality of mercy is not strain'd, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath; it is twice bless'd; It blesseth him that gives and him that takes...
Página 321 - O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, That I am meek and gentle with these butchers ! Thou art the ruins of the noblest man That ever lived in the tide of times.
Página 337 - When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept; Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious, And Brutus is an honorable man. You all did see that on the Lupercal I thrice presented him a kingly crown, Which he did thrice refuse.
Página 338 - tis his will : Let but the commons hear this testament, (Which, pardon me, I do not mean to read) And they would go and kiss dead Caesar's wounds, And dip their napkins in his sacred blood ; Yea, beg a hair of him for memory, And, dying, mention it within their wills, Bequeathing it, as a rich legacy, Unto their issue.
Página 288 - River where ford there was none; But, ere he alighted at Nethe'rby gate, The bride had consented, the gallant came late: For. a laggard in love and a dastard in war Was to wed the fair Ellen of brave Lochinvar.
Página 288 - 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.