Literary Class Book; Or, Readings in English Literature: To which is Prefixed an Introductory Treatise on the Art of Reading and the Principles of ElocutionSullivan, 1861 - 504 pages |
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... head and stand still , with your face towards the person who hears you . 2. Take great care to pronounce every word , and every syllable articulately , that is , fully and distinctly . In order to do this , you must open your mouth ...
... head and stand still , with your face towards the person who hears you . 2. Take great care to pronounce every word , and every syllable articulately , that is , fully and distinctly . In order to do this , you must open your mouth ...
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... head of " General Emphasis . " The following are examples : — What men could do Is done already : heaven and earth will witness , If Rome must fall , that we are innocent . There was a time then , my fellow - citizens , when the Lace ...
... head of " General Emphasis . " The following are examples : — What men could do Is done already : heaven and earth will witness , If Rome must fall , that we are innocent . There was a time then , my fellow - citizens , when the Lace ...
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... head are superfluous . * The view that we have taken of the nature of em- phasis renders it unnecessary for us to enter into the subject of what is called Emphatic Inflection . The great rule for GOOD READING will lead us in every case ...
... head are superfluous . * The view that we have taken of the nature of em- phasis renders it unnecessary for us to enter into the subject of what is called Emphatic Inflection . The great rule for GOOD READING will lead us in every case ...
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... HEAD . Are you coming ' ? Do you hear ' ? Is he there ' ? Can a man take fire in his bosom and his clothes not be burnt ' ? Can one go upon hot coals and his feet not be burnt ' ? * This rule is founded on the natural perception of ...
... HEAD . Are you coming ' ? Do you hear ' ? Is he there ' ? Can a man take fire in his bosom and his clothes not be burnt ' ? Can one go upon hot coals and his feet not be burnt ' ? * This rule is founded on the natural perception of ...
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... head to foot` . Then saw you not his face ' ? Oh yes ' , my lord . What , looked he frowningly ' ? A countenance more in sorrow ' than in anger . Pale ' ? Nay , very pale . ( d . ) Will you go ' or stay ? Will you go to - day ' or to ...
... head to foot` . Then saw you not his face ' ? Oh yes ' , my lord . What , looked he frowningly ' ? A countenance more in sorrow ' than in anger . Pale ' ? Nay , very pale . ( d . ) Will you go ' or stay ? Will you go to - day ' or to ...
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accent arms beauty behold Beotia blood Bolus Brutus Cæsar Caius Verres called Cicero Circumflex Contempt Courage cried death delight demnation dread earth Elocution emphasis emphatic words enemies Euboea express eyes falling inflection fame father fear feel fool force friends give glory grief hand happiness hath hear heard heart heaven honour hope Horror human human voice Jugurtha Julius Cæsar kind king labour liberty live look lord Macbeth mankind manner means Micipsa mind motley fool nature never night o'er observations ourselves passion pause person phatic pity pleasure poor praise pronounce pronunciation proper Quintilian reader rising inflection Roman Roman senate rule Scythians sense sentence smile soul sound speak speaker spirit syllables tears tell thee thing thou thought tion tone truth Twas uncle Toby utter virtue voice youth
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Page 436 - O, it offends me to the soul, to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings...
Page 389 - Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee; Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not. Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's, and truth's; then if thou fall'st, O Cromwell, Thou fall'st a blessed martyr!
Page 497 - There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gather'd then Her Beauty and her Chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men; A thousand hearts beat happily; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes look'd love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage bell; But hush!
Page 331 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtile; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
Page 220 - Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast- weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Page 71 - He, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower. His form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured ; as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Page 460 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods...
Page 496 - And monarchs tremble in their capitals, The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord of thee, and arbiter of war: These are thy toys, and, as the snowy flake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar.
Page 387 - This many summers in a sea of glory; But far beyond my depth : my high-blown pride At length broke under me ; and now has left me, Weary, and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me.
Page 387 - Farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness ! This is the state of man ; to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him : The third day comes a frost, a killing frost ; And,— when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a ripening, — nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.