The Practice of Elocution, Or A Course of Exercises for Acquiring the Several Requisites of a Good Delivery |
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... sometimes use the upward , and sometimes the downward ac- cent , according to the impulse of the moment ; that is to say , if he reads the words in quick succession , the idea of continuation will induce him to pronounce each with the ...
... sometimes use the upward , and sometimes the downward ac- cent , according to the impulse of the moment ; that is to say , if he reads the words in quick succession , the idea of continuation will induce him to pronounce each with the ...
Page 7
... sometimes rapid and sometimes slow . Such an exercise on detached words will probably be thought a lit- tle ridiculous , but the student may rest confident of its utility . It will not only give him a clear feeling of the kind of tones ...
... sometimes rapid and sometimes slow . Such an exercise on detached words will probably be thought a lit- tle ridiculous , but the student may rest confident of its utility . It will not only give him a clear feeling of the kind of tones ...
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... sometimes denoted by ai , sometimes by ea , ey , ei , and sometimes by a in a situation which , according to ortho- graphy , would require it to have a very different sound ; as in an- cient , chamber . Similar remarks apply to every ...
... sometimes denoted by ai , sometimes by ea , ey , ei , and sometimes by a in a situation which , according to ortho- graphy , would require it to have a very different sound ; as in an- cient , chamber . Similar remarks apply to every ...
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... Sometimes , indeed , the sense forbids the downward accent at such a place , because , though the portion of the sentence there terminating , may not seem to have a gramma- tical dependence on what follows , yet it has a dependence for ...
... Sometimes , indeed , the sense forbids the downward accent at such a place , because , though the portion of the sentence there terminating , may not seem to have a gramma- tical dependence on what follows , yet it has a dependence for ...
Page 67
... sometimes on account of virtue we should be exposed to evils , which is sometimes the case , ( though men are much more frequent- ly involved by their vices in evil , and that in a more shameful wáy , ) virtue can teach us , if not to ...
... sometimes on account of virtue we should be exposed to evils , which is sometimes the case , ( though men are much more frequent- ly involved by their vices in evil , and that in a more shameful wáy , ) virtue can teach us , if not to ...
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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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