The Art of Elocution: From the Simple Articulation of the Elemental Sounds of Language, Up to the Highest Tone of Expression in Speech, Attainable by the Human Voice |
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... meaning , and leave nature and habit to suggest the utterance : and for this plan " he lays claim to some originality of his own " ( Part IV . c . i , §1 ) ; though he says , ( c . ii . , § 2 , ) that " it is not enough that the reader ...
... meaning , and leave nature and habit to suggest the utterance : and for this plan " he lays claim to some originality of his own " ( Part IV . c . i , §1 ) ; though he says , ( c . ii . , § 2 , ) that " it is not enough that the reader ...
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... meaning requires apposition of inflection , -and that , to make antithetical inflections and emphasis on words having apposition of meaning , is such a total subversion of every rule of Elocution and common sense , as to excite wonder ...
... meaning requires apposition of inflection , -and that , to make antithetical inflections and emphasis on words having apposition of meaning , is such a total subversion of every rule of Elocution and common sense , as to excite wonder ...
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... meaning , ) an exercise of the judgment unaided by any art or system of rules ; such an exercise as we must necessarily employ in numberless cases of daily occurrence ; in which , having no established principles to guide us , no line ...
... meaning , ) an exercise of the judgment unaided by any art or system of rules ; such an exercise as we must necessarily employ in numberless cases of daily occurrence ; in which , having no established principles to guide us , no line ...
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... meaning , —are not heard at all ; or , if even heard , are deprived of all force , by the listless manner in which they fall from the mouth . This is , of all things , to be avoided . The last words of a sentence are as impor- tant as ...
... meaning , —are not heard at all ; or , if even heard , are deprived of all force , by the listless manner in which they fall from the mouth . This is , of all things , to be avoided . The last words of a sentence are as impor- tant as ...
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... . Inflection marks and denotes meaning , or , the actual condition of the sense ; suspension of voice ac- companies suspension of sense , while it is in the course of formation ; and the full close of the 82 ART OF ELOCUTION .
... . Inflection marks and denotes meaning , or , the actual condition of the sense ; suspension of voice ac- companies suspension of sense , while it is in the course of formation ; and the full close of the 82 ART OF ELOCUTION .
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accelerando 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 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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Page 324 - I cannot tell what you and other men Think of this life, but, for my single self, I had as lief not be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself.
Page 300 - He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress...
Page 325 - Why should that name be sounded more than yours ? Write them together, yours is as fair a name; Sound them, it doth become the mouth as well; Weigh them, it is as heavy; conjure with 'em, "Brutus" will start a spirit as soon as "Caesar.
Page 291 - mong Graemes of the Netherby clan ; Forsters, Fenwicks, and Musgraves, they rode and they ran : There was racing and chasing on Cannobie Lee, But the lost bride of Netherby ne'er did they see. So daring in love, and so dauntless in war, Have ye e'er heard of gallant like young Lochinvar?
Page 339 - O, now you weep ; and, I perceive, you feel The dint of pity : these are gracious drops ; Kind souls ! What, weep you, when you but behold Our Caesar's vesture wounded ? Look you here. Here is himself, marr'd, as you see.
Page 326 - Signior Antonio, many a time and oft In the Rialto you have rated me About my monies, and my usances : Still have I borne it with a patient shrug ; For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe...
Page 175 - That which is now a horse, even with a thought The rack dislimns, and makes it indistinct, As water is in water.
Page 335 - O Cassius, you are yoked with a lamb That carries anger, as the flint bears fire; Who, much enforced, shows a hasty spark, And straight is cold again.
Page 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...
Page 352 - tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them ? To die : to sleep ; No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache, and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to ?—'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep...