The Practice of Elocution, Or A Course of Exercises for Acquiring the Several Requisites of a Good DeliveryJ. Richardson, 1826 - 213 páginas |
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Página iv
... pupil finds a conve- nience in it , and even a bright one , whose mind is awake to the business of the page , is unable to break through the habit which has been gradually fixing itself , promoted as it is by the contagion of example ...
... pupil finds a conve- nience in it , and even a bright one , whose mind is awake to the business of the page , is unable to break through the habit which has been gradually fixing itself , promoted as it is by the contagion of example ...
Página vi
... pupil the stores of other minds -the master spirits of our species and make him think and feel as they have thought and felt : and the best proof he can give of the reality of every impression , is the delivery of their language with ...
... pupil the stores of other minds -the master spirits of our species and make him think and feel as they have thought and felt : and the best proof he can give of the reality of every impression , is the delivery of their language with ...
Página vii
... It is not enough for the purpose to make the pupil occasionally learn and repeat by heart selected passages of prose or poetry , unless he is taught at the same time the ob- ject of the exercise - unless he knows what habits PREFACE . vii.
... It is not enough for the purpose to make the pupil occasionally learn and repeat by heart selected passages of prose or poetry , unless he is taught at the same time the ob- ject of the exercise - unless he knows what habits PREFACE . vii.
Página viii
... pupils , it might be expedient to go through it again and again , yet a single lesson a week under a competent instructor during an advanced period of education , would abundantly answer the purpose . CONTENTS . INTRODUCTION ...
... pupils , it might be expedient to go through it again and again , yet a single lesson a week under a competent instructor during an advanced period of education , would abundantly answer the purpose . CONTENTS . INTRODUCTION ...
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... pupil , are 1. AN EXACT AND FIRM ARTICULATION . 2. A FULL UTTERANCE AND PROPER USE OF THE ACCENTS OR INFLECTIONS OF THE VOICE ES- SENTIAL TO JUST MODULATION . 3. A VARIED AND SUITABLE EXPRESSION . The first of these constitutes a ...
... pupil , are 1. AN EXACT AND FIRM ARTICULATION . 2. A FULL UTTERANCE AND PROPER USE OF THE ACCENTS OR INFLECTIONS OF THE VOICE ES- SENTIAL TO JUST MODULATION . 3. A VARIED AND SUITABLE EXPRESSION . The first of these constitutes a ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Abraham Slender Anger ARGUMENTATIVE MANNER beauty blood breath Cæsar called clause clouds cohobate Conclusive Accents consonant coward Delight denote Disjunctive Accents downward accent dread ELOCUTION emphatic accent emphatic modulation extempo Exultation fair Falstaff father feeling Fenton force give hand happiness heard heart heaven honour Indignation Interrogative Words Justice Shallow letter live looks màn mány mark mastiff meaning MEDITATIVE MANNER merely modulative mind Modulative Accents Narrative manner nature o'er Open vowels palatal passions Pity plain modulation PLAINTIVE EXPRESSION Plaintive manner pleasures pride Prince Henry pronounced pupil rate of utterance reader reading relaxes rises Scorn sentence SHAKSPEARE shut sounds slides Solemnity soul speak speaker Spithridates Suspensive and Conclusive sweet syllable tale of tale tences thee thing thou thought Tom Long tone triphthong unaccented syllables upward Vehemence VEHEMENT EXPRESSION virtue voice VOICE CONSONANTS words youth
Pasajes populares
Página 85 - And will, no doubt, with reasons answer you. I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts : I am no orator, as Brutus is ; But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man...
Página 82 - When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening
Página 196 - With eyes severe and beard of formal cut, Full of wise saws and modern instances; And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon.
Página 116 - The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places : how are the mighty fallen ! Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon ; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.
Página 82 - 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, tree, fruit, and flower...
Página 93 - Why has not man a microscopic eye ? For this plain reason, man is not a fly.
Página 80 - And there came a traveller unto the rich man, and he spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd, to dress for the wayfaring man that was come unto him; but took the poor man's lamb, and dressed it for the man that was come to him.
Página 182 - I call upon the honour of your lordships to reverence the dignity of your ancestors, and to maintain your own. I call upon the spirit and humanity of my country to vindicate the national character.
Página 60 - See, what a grace was seated on this brow; Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself; An eye like Mars, to threaten and command; A station like the herald Mercury, New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill; A combination, and a form, indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man : This was your husband.
Página 116 - Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided ; they were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions.