The Practical Elocutionist: Or the Principles of Elocution ...Robert S. Davis, 1850 - 58 pages |
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The Practical Elocutionist: Or the Principles of Elocution Henry Bartlett Maglathlin No preview available - 2016 |
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Academy accent adapted articulation aspirated Boston cæsura called circumflex Define denoted elements ellipsis elocution elocutionary analysis emotions emphasis Energetic examined Exercises expression falling inflection feeling Fisk's Greek force of utterance formed full breath Grammar Greenleaf's Arithmetic HARVARD COLLEGE high pitch High School Horror ILLUSTRATIONS intervening phrase kind klst last syllable learners length of pauses loudness low pitch MAGLATHLIN Mental Arithmetic metic moderate monotone MOSES WOOLSON mouth movement musical scale National Arithmetic National Speaker orotund Pathos peculiar PHILLIPS ACADEMY Plaintive Practical Elocutionist Principal pronunciation pupil pure tone rate of utterance reading and speaking Relative Pronouns rhetorical rising inflection rnst Rule eighth Rule fifth Rule fourth Rule second Rule seventh Rule sixth Rule third School Committee Solemnity sound stop mark stress Sublimity SUBTONICS AND ATONICS Sudden Fear syllable syllables ending teachers teeth thou thought tion tongue tonics twist upper fore-teeth Vehement vocal voice Waterville whispered York
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Page 51 - I hate him for he is a Christian : But more, for that, in low simplicity, He lends out money gratis, and brings down The rate of usance here with us in Venice. If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.
Page 37 - For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth ; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.
Page 58 - 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.
Page 55 - When what to my wondering eyes should appear But a miniature sleigh and eight tiny reindeer. With a little, old driver so lively and quick I knew in a moment it must be St. Nick ; More rapid than eagles his coursers they came And he whistled, and shouted, and called them by name.
Page 46 - Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory; We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory.
Page 38 - When night, with wings of starry gloom, O'ershadows all the earth and skies, Like some dark beauteous bird, whose plume Is sparkling with unnumbered eyes : That sacred gloom, those fires divine, So grand, so countless, Lord, are Thine.
Page 51 - Forsake me not thus, Adam! witness, Heaven, What love sincere, and reverence in my heart, I bear thee, and unweeting have offended, Unhappily deceived ! Thy suppliant, I beg, and clasp thy knees ; bereave me not, Whereon I live, thy gentle looks, thy aid, Thy counsel, in this uttermost distress My only strength and stay ; forlorn of thee, Whither shall I betake me, where subsist...
Page 41 - In vain for him th' officious wife prepares The fire fair-blazing and the vestment warm; In vain his little children, peeping out Into the mingling storm, demand their sire, With tears of artless innocence. Alas! Nor wife nor children more shall he behold, Nor friends nor sacred home: on every nerve The deadly Winter seizes, shuts up sense, And, o'er his inmost vitals creeping cold, Lays him along the snows a stiffened corse, Stretched out and bleaching in the northern blast.
Page 53 - O visions blest ! Though worthless our conceptions all of Thee, Yet shall Thy shadowed image fill our breast, And waft its homage to Thy Deity. God ! thus alone my lowly thoughts can soar ; Thus seek Thy presence — Being wise and good ! 'Midst Thy vast works admire, obey, adore ; And when the tongue is eloquent no more, The soul shall speak in tears of gratitude.
Page 29 - It is pleasant to be virtuous and good; because that is to excel many others: it is pleasant to grow better; because that is to excel ourselves: it is pleasant to command our appetites and passions, and to keep them in due order, within the bounds of reason and religion; because this is empire: nay, it is pleasant even to mortify and subdue our lusts; because that is victory.