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... sentences for study - Condensation - Loose , balanced , and periodic sentences -Parallel structure - Repetition - Sound versus sense . IMPROVING THE VOICE . CHAPTER IX The " American " voice - Organic differences - Breathing - Volume ...
... sentences for study - Condensation - Loose , balanced , and periodic sentences -Parallel structure - Repetition - Sound versus sense . IMPROVING THE VOICE . CHAPTER IX The " American " voice - Organic differences - Breathing - Volume ...
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... sentences of the paragraphs . Read carefully when you find a passage of value . Take notes , preferably on small cards , so that later when you are making the plan of your talk , you can arrange and rearrange these details without ...
... sentences of the paragraphs . Read carefully when you find a passage of value . Take notes , preferably on small cards , so that later when you are making the plan of your talk , you can arrange and rearrange these details without ...
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... sentence moves them . They often entertain and instruct audiences , but their lack of design , their rambling and verbosity , is fatal to emphasis and action . The listener is attracted by one good thing after another , but fails to get ...
... sentence moves them . They often entertain and instruct audiences , but their lack of design , their rambling and verbosity , is fatal to emphasis and action . The listener is attracted by one good thing after another , but fails to get ...
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... sentence , a paragraph , a chapter . Some days the composition was rapid ; on others painfully slow , but perhaps those were necessary periods of incubation for the fluency and vigor that followed . Instead of resigning himself to moody ...
... sentence , a paragraph , a chapter . Some days the composition was rapid ; on others painfully slow , but perhaps those were necessary periods of incubation for the fluency and vigor that followed . Instead of resigning himself to moody ...
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William George Hoffman. expressed in single words , in phrases or in complete sentences . is advisable , however , to ... sentence structure , connections , transitional words and phrases , although these may often be profitably omitted ...
William George Hoffman. expressed in single words , in phrases or in complete sentences . is advisable , however , to ... sentence structure , connections , transitional words and phrases , although these may often be profitably omitted ...
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Page 245 - For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe: You call me misbeliever, cut-throat, dog, And spit upon my Jewish gaberdine, And all for use of that which is mine own. Well then, it now appears, you need my help; Go to, then; you come to me, and you say, Shylock, we would have moneys...
Page 74 - Fear death? — to feel the fog in my throat, The mist in my face, When the snows begin, and the blasts denote I am nearing the place, The power of the night, the press of the storm, The post of the foe; Where he stands, the Arch Fear in a visible form, Yet the strong man must go...
Page 166 - Seven years, my lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties, of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it at last to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour.
Page 74 - I tell thee thou'rt defied! And if thou saidst I am not peer To any lord in Scotland here, Lowland or Highland, far or near, Lord Angus, thou hast lied!
Page 240 - Iron bells! What a world of solemn thought their monody compels! In the silence of the night, How we shiver with affright At the melancholy menace of their tone! For every sound that floats From the rust within their throats Is a groan. And the people - ah, the people They that dwell up in the steeple...
Page 245 - Remember March, the ides of March remember : Did not great Julius bleed for justice sake ? What villain touch'd his body, that did stab, And not for justice ? What ! shall one of us, That struck the foremost man of all this world But for supporting robbers, shall we now...
Page 166 - Is not a Patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help...
Page 236 - O well for the sailor lad, That he sings in his boat on the bay! And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill; But O for the touch of a vanish'd hand, And the sound of a voice that is still...
Page 188 - Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus ; but use all gently ; for in the very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say, whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
Page 239 - Hear the sledges with the bells Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night! While the stars that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight...