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... principal rea- son of the neglect ; but there is another which has , no doubt , considerable influence : it is the idea that sys- tematic instruction in Elocution is likely to induce an artificial and unnatural manner . Let us examine ...
... principal rea- son of the neglect ; but there is another which has , no doubt , considerable influence : it is the idea that sys- tematic instruction in Elocution is likely to induce an artificial and unnatural manner . Let us examine ...
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... principal constructive part , or immediately prece- ding the modifying member ? Again , A few sighs , ejaculated in an hour like this , are but a poor atonement for a life spent in vicious pursuits . In this sentence we naturally ...
... principal constructive part , or immediately prece- ding the modifying member ? Again , A few sighs , ejaculated in an hour like this , are but a poor atonement for a life spent in vicious pursuits . In this sentence we naturally ...
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... principal pause ; but it will be acknowledged by every judicious ear that if a short pause be made at gross , and another at refined , the sense is con- veyed more forcibly and distinctly . V. After the word which forms the principal ...
... principal pause ; but it will be acknowledged by every judicious ear that if a short pause be made at gross , and another at refined , the sense is con- veyed more forcibly and distinctly . V. After the word which forms the principal ...
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... principal pauses which good reading requires , in addition to many which are usually indicated by the points in grammar . But it must not be supposed that these are all which are necessary . The form and structure of sentences , and the ...
... principal pauses which good reading requires , in addition to many which are usually indicated by the points in grammar . But it must not be supposed that these are all which are necessary . The form and structure of sentences , and the ...
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... mind , but mind . It is mind , not mind . In which sentences the inflection on mind in the affirmative member , is that which is sought for . Having thus ascertained the nature of the two principal inflections C 3 INFLECTION . 33.
... mind , but mind . It is mind , not mind . In which sentences the inflection on mind in the affirmative member , is that which is sought for . Having thus ascertained the nature of the two principal inflections C 3 INFLECTION . 33.
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
accident of speech acquire action ÆNEID antithesis audience beginning cadence Cæsar cæsura called circumflex clause commencing series common common metre compound series Concluding Crotchet degree delivery discourse distinction Elocution emphasis of force emphasis of sense emphatic word endeavour English example expressed Fair Penitent falling inflection flection following lines following passage following sentence give GOWER STREET graces Grammar Greek heavy syllable human voice Interlinear Translation language Latin latter LL.D loud manner marked melody ment metre mind musical scale nature necessary observed organic emphasis passion perceive phasis phatic pitch pleasures poetry PROFESSOR pronounced pronunciation prose quantity Quaver reader reading and speaking require the rising rhythmus rising inflection rule simple series soft sound speaker spoken style syllabic emphasis taste tence thee thing thou hast tion triple triple metre variety verb verse XENOPHON
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Seite 162 - What man dare, I dare: Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear, The arm'd rhinoceros, or the Hyrcan tiger; Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves Shall never tremble...
Seite 114 - Let it pry through the portage of the head Like the brass cannon; let the brow o'erwhelm it As fearfully as doth a galled rock O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean.
Seite 123 - Go to now, ye that say, To-day or to-morrow we will go into such a city and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain : whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life ? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
Seite 148 - His lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed : Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury.
Seite 110 - And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye ' Or how wilt thou (Say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye : and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
Seite 45 - His spear, — to equal which, the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand...
Seite 148 - Then he which had received the one talent came and said, Lord, I knew thee that thou art an hard man, reaping where thou hast not sown, and gathering where thou hast not strawed : and I was afraid, and went and hid thy talent in the earth : lo, there thou hast that is thine.
Seite 42 - But can we believe a thinking being that is in a perpetual progress of improvements, and travelling on from perfection to perfection, after having just looked abroad into the works of its Creator, and made a few discoveries of his infinite goodness, wisdom, and power, must perish at her first setting out, and in the very beginning of her inquiries ? A man, considered in his present state, seems only sent into the world to propagate his kind.
Seite 113 - AWAKE, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city : for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean. Shake thyself from the dust ; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem : loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion.
Seite 115 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.