"Elocutionary Manual.": The Principles of Elocution, with Exercises and Notations, for Pronunciation, Intonation, Emphasis, Gesture and Emotional ExpressionJ. P. Burbank, 1878 - 243 pages |
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... less developed -- arising from struc- tural differences in the organs of speech , from temperament , or from habit . - the result of previous training or of previous neglect . These fixed idiosyncrasies and tendencies , mingled with the ...
... less developed -- arising from struc- tural differences in the organs of speech , from temperament , or from habit . - the result of previous training or of previous neglect . These fixed idiosyncrasies and tendencies , mingled with the ...
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... less necessary are at the same time sunk into a comparative obscurity ! " * How awkwardly ambiguous is the reading of those who have no principle to guide them in the selection of emphasis , —the distribution of the light and shade of ...
... less necessary are at the same time sunk into a comparative obscurity ! " * How awkwardly ambiguous is the reading of those who have no principle to guide them in the selection of emphasis , —the distribution of the light and shade of ...
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... less separable than those you join ; And , which imports the same , not to combine Such words together as do not relate So closely as the words you separate . " The subject of Antithesis and the relation of antithesis to em- phasis , is ...
... less separable than those you join ; And , which imports the same , not to combine Such words together as do not relate So closely as the words you separate . " The subject of Antithesis and the relation of antithesis to em- phasis , is ...
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... less true in Elocution than in physics , that the brightest light casts the deep- est shadow . The light of emphasis on any word throws a shade of subordination on all allied words , the darker and more con- cealing in proportion to the ...
... less true in Elocution than in physics , that the brightest light casts the deep- est shadow . The light of emphasis on any word throws a shade of subordination on all allied words , the darker and more con- cealing in proportion to the ...
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... gaird , sair- geant , & c . So. Vowel 8 , as No. 4 ; as in err , serve , person , * This is less a colloquial than an oratorical and especially a Pulpit Scotticism . term , & c .; pronounced ĕhrr , sehrve , 46 VOWEL SCOTTICISMS .
... gaird , sair- geant , & c . So. Vowel 8 , as No. 4 ; as in err , serve , person , * This is less a colloquial than an oratorical and especially a Pulpit Scotticism . term , & c .; pronounced ĕhrr , sehrve , 46 VOWEL SCOTTICISMS .
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Page 190 - Let's choose executors, and talk of wills : And yet not so, — for what can we bequeath, Save our deposed bodies to the ground ? Our lands, our lives, and all are Bolingbroke's, And nothing can we call our own, but death; And that small model of the barren earth, Which serves as paste and cover to our bones.
Page 180 - Let's dry our eyes: and thus far hear me, Cromwell; And, when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And sleep in dull cold marble, where no mention Of me more must be heard of, say, I taught thee...
Page 190 - All murder'd ; for within the hollow crown, That rounds the mortal temples of a king, Keeps Death his court, and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp...
Page 189 - It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes : 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest ; it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown ; His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings ; But mercy is above this sceptred sway, It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God's When mercy seasons justice.
Page 196 - 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...
Page 149 - Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him ; But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him ! But half of our heavy task was done When the clock struck the hour for retiring, And we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was sullenly firing.
Page 125 - He who ascends to mountain-tops, shall find The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds and snow ; He who surpasses or subdues mankind, Must look down on the hate of those below. Though high above the sun of glory glow, And far beneath the earth and ocean spread, Round him are icy rocks, and loudly blow Contending tempests on his naked head, And thus reward the toils which to those summits led.
Page 222 - O, young Lochinvar is come out of the west, Through all the wide Border his steed was the best ; And save his good broad-sword he weapon had none, He rode all unarmed, and he rode all alone. So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war, There never was knight like the young Lochinvar.
Page 146 - 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.
Page 166 - 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...