An Essay on Elocution: Designed for the Use of Schools and Private LearnersPratt, Woodford & Company, 1852 - 357 páginas |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 100
Página 5
... nature , elevates man to his proper rank in the scale of being , and qualifies him to fulfil , with honour and usefulness , his various offices in life . But school - books , more especially , as they 1 * PREFACE . 5 20.
... nature , elevates man to his proper rank in the scale of being , and qualifies him to fulfil , with honour and usefulness , his various offices in life . But school - books , more especially , as they 1 * PREFACE . 5 20.
Página 16
... nature , as we are in expressing the senti- ments of others . By a misconception of the spirit and design of the author , readers and speakers often mar , and sometimes totally pervert , his meaning . Hence the importance of atten- tion ...
... nature , as we are in expressing the senti- ments of others . By a misconception of the spirit and design of the author , readers and speakers often mar , and sometimes totally pervert , his meaning . Hence the importance of atten- tion ...
Página 17
... nature , and character , and application of the principles of the science : but , at the same time , let the am- bitious student bear in mind , that , as by strict attention to principles and rules , and by long practice , with native ...
... nature , and character , and application of the principles of the science : but , at the same time , let the am- bitious student bear in mind , that , as by strict attention to principles and rules , and by long practice , with native ...
Página 19
... nature is put to the blush ; and the whole group of proprieties is sent jibbering down to chaos . To see a piece of elegant composition tattered and torn , and mutilated and mangled , by such a reader , is severer torture than to listen ...
... nature is put to the blush ; and the whole group of proprieties is sent jibbering down to chaos . To see a piece of elegant composition tattered and torn , and mutilated and mangled , by such a reader , is severer torture than to listen ...
Página 24
... nature in directing the operations of the vocal powers in the production of speech , in no one thing has she displayed greater wisdom than in that which relates to the simple elements called by Dr. Rush , the Radical and Vanishing ...
... nature in directing the operations of the vocal powers in the production of speech , in no one thing has she displayed greater wisdom than in that which relates to the simple elements called by Dr. Rush , the Radical and Vanishing ...
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Términos y frases comunes
accent adverb affected agreeable appear applied articulation attention beauty blank verse Brutus cæsuras called Caspar Cesar circumflex close dark death degree Demosthenes diphthongal direct distinct earth elementary sounds elocution emphasis emphatick force employed enunciation equal wave errour EXERCISES expressed eyes falling inflection final pause give given happy hath hearers heart heaven honour horse-fly human human voice i-de illustrate important learner letter Lochiel look Lord mân manner meaning ment mind modulation musick nature o'er observed orthoepy peculiar pitch poetick poetry principles pronouncing pronunciation proper protracted publick radical and vanish reader reading Remarks rhetorical pauses rising inflection Rule SECTION semitone Sennacherib sense sentence sentiments SIMPLE SERIES soul speak speaker spirit stress subtonick superiour syllable taste tence thee thing thou thought tion tone tonick elements uncle Toby unequal wave uttered variety verse voice vowel words