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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... Pity . Anon ....... 115 116 ...... 117 25. Advice to an affected Speaker . La Bruyère ......... 118 26. Apology for the Pig . Southey .......... ......... 120 121 27. A Vision described . Job , Chap . 4 ............. 28. The Influence ...
... Pity . Anon ....... 115 116 ...... 117 25. Advice to an affected Speaker . La Bruyère ......... 118 26. Apology for the Pig . Southey .......... ......... 120 121 27. A Vision described . Job , Chap . 4 ............. 28. The Influence ...
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... Pity , dropping soft the sadly pleasing teàr . EXERCISE 7 . The Conjunctive and Conclusive Accents . 1. The temperate man's pleasures are dura- ble , because they are régular ; and all his life is calm and serene , because it is ...
... Pity , dropping soft the sadly pleasing teàr . EXERCISE 7 . The Conjunctive and Conclusive Accents . 1. The temperate man's pleasures are dura- ble , because they are régular ; and all his life is calm and serene , because it is ...
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... pity , regret , a soft and tender melancholy , or any kindred feeling . The tone of voice is smooth and melodious ; the rate of utterance even and moderate ; the head is frequently shaken slowly ; the eyes are alternately raised and ...
... pity , regret , a soft and tender melancholy , or any kindred feeling . The tone of voice is smooth and melodious ; the rate of utterance even and moderate ; the head is frequently shaken slowly ; the eyes are alternately raised and ...
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... Pity ; The more unmixed ex- pression of Cheerfulness resumed . No glory I covet , no riches I want ; Ambition is nothing to me ; The one thing I beg of kind Heaven to grant , Is a mind independent and free . With passion unruffled ...
... Pity ; The more unmixed ex- pression of Cheerfulness resumed . No glory I covet , no riches I want ; Ambition is nothing to me ; The one thing I beg of kind Heaven to grant , Is a mind independent and free . With passion unruffled ...
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... pity . Mild he spake , And entering on discourse , such stories told As made me oft revisit his sad cell . For he had been a soldier in his youth , And fought in famous battles , when the peers Of Europe , by the bold Godfredo led ...
... pity . Mild he spake , And entering on discourse , such stories told As made me oft revisit his sad cell . For he had been a soldier in his youth , And fought in famous battles , when the peers Of Europe , by the bold Godfredo led ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Abraham Slender Anger ARGUMENTATIVE MANNER beauty blood breath Cæsar called clause clouds cohobate Conclusive Accents consonant coward Delight denote Disjunctive Accents downward accent dread ELOCUTION emphatic accent emphatic modulation extempo Exultation fair Falstaff father feeling Fenton force give hand happiness heard heart heaven honour Indignation Interrogative Words Justice Shallow letter live looks màn mány mark mastiff meaning MEDITATIVE MANNER merely modulative mind Modulative Accents Narrative manner nature o'er Open vowels palatal passions Pity plain modulation PLAINTIVE EXPRESSION Plaintive manner pleasures pride Prince Henry pronounced pupil rate of utterance reader reading relaxes rises Scorn sentence SHAKSPEARE shut sounds slides Solemnity soul speak speaker Spithridates Suspensive and Conclusive sweet syllable tale of tale tences thee thing thou thought Tom Long tone triphthong unaccented syllables upward Vehemence 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.