A Grammar of Elocution: Containing the Principles of the Arts of Reading and Speaking; Illustrated by Appropriate Exercises and Examples ...A. H. Maltby, 1830 - 344 pages |
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... thought it would be useful . To what has been thus obtained , and is here acknowledg- ed , I have added whatever my own observation and industry have enabled me to collect . Above all , I have endeavored to adapt the whole to the ...
... thought it would be useful . To what has been thus obtained , and is here acknowledg- ed , I have added whatever my own observation and industry have enabled me to collect . Above all , I have endeavored to adapt the whole to the ...
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... Temper - GOLDSMITH , 288 Summer Evening's Meditations - Barbauld , 293 Plunket's Speech , 300 • Execution of the Earl of Argyle , 304 Thoughts in a place of worship , 308 Dog and Water Lily , 310 The Deluge , 312 CONTENTS . 11.
... Temper - GOLDSMITH , 288 Summer Evening's Meditations - Barbauld , 293 Plunket's Speech , 300 • Execution of the Earl of Argyle , 304 Thoughts in a place of worship , 308 Dog and Water Lily , 310 The Deluge , 312 CONTENTS . 11.
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... thought by the indolent somewhat irksome ; but the diligent student may assure himself that more is not required than he will find substantially useful in familiarizing his ear with the real sounds of his language , in giving him an ...
... thought by the indolent somewhat irksome ; but the diligent student may assure himself that more is not required than he will find substantially useful in familiarizing his ear with the real sounds of his language , in giving him an ...
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... thought . Things are described as they are in themselves , not as related to us as beings susceptible of emotion . In those parts which are restricted to such description , and in which no word has emphatic import above another , the ...
... thought . Things are described as they are in themselves , not as related to us as beings susceptible of emotion . In those parts which are restricted to such description , and in which no word has emphatic import above another , the ...
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... thought in their artificial clau- ses , and threatened destruction to the flowing harmony and expansive energy of English prose . The following is a striking example of the formal con- struction we have alluded to . " Homer was the ...
... thought in their artificial clau- ses , and threatened destruction to the flowing harmony and expansive energy of English prose . The following is a striking example of the formal con- struction we have alluded to . " Homer was the ...
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accented articulation aspiration Brutus cadence Cæsar called ceive cern concrete consonants degree delivery described discourse discrete downward slide earth effect elementary sounds Elocution Elocutionist emphasis emphatic employed equal wave example exercise expression eyes falling ditone falling slide fifth force forcible fore give Harfleur hath heard heart heaven high note Human Voice intervals light long quantity Lord loud marked marked radical measure median stress ments monotony natural nerally o'er octave pauses percussion persons plaintive practice pronounced pronunciation prosody public speaking quire racter radical pitch radical stress reading rise and fall rising ditone rising slide semitone sentence short simple melody soul speak speaker speech student sylla syllables TABLE OF CONSONANT TABLE OF VOWEL thee thine thing third thou art thought tion tone tremor unto utterance vanish vocal voice vowel elements vowel sounds words Δ Δ Δ
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