The Rhetorical Reader: Consisting of Instructions for Regulating the Voice, with a Rhetorical Notation, Illustrating Inflection, Emphasis, and Modulation, and a Course of Rhetorical Exercises : Designed for the Use of Academies and High-schoolsDayton and Newman, 1835 - 304 Seiten |
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... standing canon to the learner in elocution . In contending with any bad habit of voice , let him break up the sentence on which the difficulty occurs , and throw it , if possible , into the colloquial form . Let him observe in himself ...
... standing canon to the learner in elocution . In contending with any bad habit of voice , let him break up the sentence on which the difficulty occurs , and throw it , if possible , into the colloquial form . Let him observe in himself ...
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... stands opposed to the claims of custom or of harmony , these always give way to its supremacy . Now I presume that every one , who is at all accustomed to accurate observation on this subject , must be sensivie how very little this ...
... stands opposed to the claims of custom or of harmony , these always give way to its supremacy . Now I presume that every one , who is at all accustomed to accurate observation on this subject , must be sensivie how very little this ...
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... stands opposed to something in sense . The theory which supposes this , is too narrow to cor- respond with the philosophy of elocution . Emphasis is the soul of delivery , because it is the most discriminating mark of emotion . Contrast ...
... stands opposed to something in sense . The theory which supposes this , is too narrow to cor- respond with the philosophy of elocution . Emphasis is the soul of delivery , because it is the most discriminating mark of emotion . Contrast ...
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... stand it . One more question remains to be answered ; how shall we know when an emphatic word demands the rising , and when the falling inflection ? 66 If the reader has studied the RULES OF INFLECTION which begin at p . 29 , he can ...
... stand it . One more question remains to be answered ; how shall we know when an emphatic word demands the rising , and when the falling inflection ? 66 If the reader has studied the RULES OF INFLECTION which begin at p . 29 , he can ...
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... standing in close succession , we are in danger of diminishing the amount of meaning , expressed by the whole . The only rule that can be adopted is , so to adjust the stress and inflection of voice , on the different terms , as shall ...
... standing in close succession , we are in danger of diminishing the amount of meaning , expressed by the whole . The only rule that can be adopted is , so to adjust the stress and inflection of voice , on the different terms , as shall ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
accent angel answer antithetic arms behold blessings cadence circumflex close dark day of judgement dead death delivery denote distinction divíne dreadful earth elocution eloquence emotion emphasis emphatic series emphatic stress emphatic words eternal examples EXERCISE expressed falling inflection falling slide father fault fire flames gesture give habits happiness hast hath head hear heard heart heaven Hispaniola hope Jesus Julius Cæsar language live Lord loud mark Massillon meaning mind never night o'er open vowels pause phatic principle proper question reader requires the falling rhetorical right hand rising inflection rising slide Rolla rule say unto sense senseless things sentence sentiment servant shining instruments ship Sidon soul sound speak speaker spirit stand strong syllable tears tell tences thee thing thou thought throne thunder tion tones turn unem uttered vowel whole wings
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 80 - Is not this the carpenter's son ? is not his mother called Mary? and his brethren, James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas? And his sisters, are they not all with us?
Seite 130 - And he said, Come. And when Peter was come down out of the ship, he walked on the water, to go to Jesus. 30 But when he saw the wind boisterous, he was afraid ; and beginning to sink, he cried, saying, Lord, save me.
Seite 131 - But forasmuch as he had not to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made. The servant therefore fell down and worshipped him, saying, Lord, have patience with me, and I will pay thee all.
Seite 133 - The baptism of John, whence was it? from heaven, or of men? And they reasoned with themselves, saying, If we shall say, From heaven ; he will say unto us, Why did ye not then believe him? But if we shall say, Of men ; we fear the people ; for all hold John as a prophet. And they answered Jesus, and said, We cannot tell. And he said unto them, Neither tell I you by what authority I do these things.
Seite 130 - And when he had sent the multitudes away, he went up into a mountain apart to pray : and when the evening was come, he was there alone.
Seite 129 - And, like a man to double business bound, I stand in pause where I shall first begin, And both neglect. What if this cursed hand Were thicker than itself with brother's blood, Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens To wash it white as snow?
Seite 128 - By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet nor in shroud we wound him; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow; But we steadfastly gazed on the face of the dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow.
Seite 120 - And there was mounting in hot haste: the steed, The mustering squadron, and the clattering car, Went pouring forward with impetuous speed, And swiftly forming in the ranks of war...
Seite 288 - They tell us, sir, that we are weak — unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week — or the next year?
Seite 130 - In the corrupted currents of this world Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice, And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law; but 'tis not so above; There is no shuffling, there the action lies In his true nature, and we ourselves compell'd Even to the teeth and forehead of our faults To give in evidence.