An Essay on Elocution: With Elucidatory Passages from Various Authors to which are Added Remarks on Reading Prose and Verse, with Suggestions to Instructors of the ArtW. C. Little, 1856 - 300 páginas |
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... figure in rhetoric , which rises in force and dignity of expression with the sense , and is pro- ductive of much grandeur and effect . The rule for reading or speaking a climax , is to raise the voice pro- gressively with the subject ...
... figure in rhetoric , which rises in force and dignity of expression with the sense , and is pro- ductive of much grandeur and effect . The rule for reading or speaking a climax , is to raise the voice pro- gressively with the subject ...
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... figure , the reverse of the Climax , frequently imparts force , beauty , and pathos to language . It should be read or spoken by commencing the subject in the middle tone of voice , then subduedly and progressive- ly letting it fall ...
... figure , the reverse of the Climax , frequently imparts force , beauty , and pathos to language . It should be read or spoken by commencing the subject in the middle tone of voice , then subduedly and progressive- ly letting it fall ...
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... figure , rather used to impart variety than elegance to composition , should be read or spoken in a quicker and a lower tone of voice than the general subject . The reader or speaker , should slightly suspend his voice im- mediately ...
... figure , rather used to impart variety than elegance to composition , should be read or spoken in a quicker and a lower tone of voice than the general subject . The reader or speaker , should slightly suspend his voice im- mediately ...
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... figure gives force to meaning , and variety to utterance , and should be read or spoken with a particular stress on the words in op- position . Examples . " Had you rather Cæsar were living , and die all slaves , than that Cæsar were ...
... figure gives force to meaning , and variety to utterance , and should be read or spoken with a particular stress on the words in op- position . Examples . " Had you rather Cæsar were living , and die all slaves , than that Cæsar were ...
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... figure which numbers up the perfections or defects of persons or things , or which brings under one head the several parts of an argument , and , like the concentration of artillery in battle , when brought to act upon any given point ...
... figure which numbers up the perfections or defects of persons or things , or which brings under one head the several parts of an argument , and , like the concentration of artillery in battle , when brought to act upon any given point ...
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Página 74 - 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. Give not that which is holy unto
Página 152 - wounds, poor poor dumb Here is himself—marr'd as you see. by traitors. mouths, And bid them speak for me. But, were I Brutus, And Brutus Antony, there were an Antony Would ruffle up your spirits, and put a tongue In every wound of Caesar, that should move The stones of Rome to rise and mutiny.
Página 237 - each art, reprov'd each dull delay, Allur'd to brighter worlds and led the way. Beside the bed where parting life was laid, And sorrow, guilt, and pain, by turns dismay'd, The reverend champion stood, at his control, Despair and anguish fled the struggling soul; Comfort came down the trembling wretch to raise, And
Página 151 - fell. O what a fall was there, my countrymen ! Then I and you and all of us fell down; Whilst bloody treason flourished over us. The dint of pity ! These are gracious drops. O, now you weep; and I perceive you feel Kind souls ! What, weep you when you but behold Our Caesar's vesture wounded ? Look
Página 73 - than meat, and the body than raiment ? Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly father fecdeth them. Are ye not much better than they? Which of you by taking thought, can add one cubit unto his stature ? And why take ye thought for
Página 72 - you, They have their reward. But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head and wash thy face ; that thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy Father which is in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly. The light of the body is the eve: if therefore thine eye be single, thy
Página 280 - form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time, Calm orconvuls'd—in breeze, or gale, or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark heaving;—boundless, endless, and sublime—- The image of Eternity—the throne Of the invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Página 12 - For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God ; I will sit, also, upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north; I will ascend above the heights of
Página 43 - He stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow; his ways are everlasting. The mountains saw thee, and they trembled; the overflowing of the water passed by; the deep uttered his voice, and lifted up his hands on high.
Página 34 - With thee conversing I forget all time, All seasons, and their change; all please alike. Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb,