Lessons in Elocution, Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse: For the Improvement of Youth in Reading and SpeakingEzra Collier, 1825 - 372 стор. |
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... follow in their proper places . RULE II . Let your PRONUNCIATION be Bold and Forcible . AN insipid flatness and languor is almost the universal fault in reading , and even public speakers often suffer their words to drop from their lips ...
... follow in their proper places . RULE II . Let your PRONUNCIATION be Bold and Forcible . AN insipid flatness and languor is almost the universal fault in reading , and even public speakers often suffer their words to drop from their lips ...
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... follow his own understanding and feelings . The most common faults respecting emphasis are laying so strong an emphasis on one word as to leave no power of giving a particular force to other words , which though not equally , are in a ...
... follow his own understanding and feelings . The most common faults respecting emphasis are laying so strong an emphasis on one word as to leave no power of giving a particular force to other words , which though not equally , are in a ...
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... follow , or enabling the speaker to alter the tone or height of the voice ; sometimes to make a very considerable pause , where the grammatical construction requires none at all . In doing this , however , it is necessary that in the ...
... follow , or enabling the speaker to alter the tone or height of the voice ; sometimes to make a very considerable pause , where the grammatical construction requires none at all . In doing this , however , it is necessary that in the ...
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... follow the great original itself , or the best copies you meet with , always however , " with this special observance , that you overstep not the modesty of nature . " In the application of these rules to practice , or order to acquire ...
... follow the great original itself , or the best copies you meet with , always however , " with this special observance , that you overstep not the modesty of nature . " In the application of these rules to practice , or order to acquire ...
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... follow me ; I will lead you into the possession of pleasure , and out of the reach of pain , and remove you from all the noise and dis- quietude of business . The affairs of either peace or war , shall have no power to disturb you ...
... follow me ; I will lead you into the possession of pleasure , and out of the reach of pain , and remove you from all the noise and dis- quietude of business . The affairs of either peace or war , shall have no power to disturb you ...
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Сторінка 186 - Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Сторінка 330 - And you, good yeomen, Whose limbs were made in England, show us here The mettle of your pasture; let us swear That you are worth your breeding, which I doubt not; For there is none of you so mean and base, ) That hath not noble lustre in your eyes. I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, Straining upon the start. The game's afoot! Follow your spirit, and upon this charge Cry, "God for Harry! England and Saint George!
Сторінка 333 - Who is here so base that would be a bondman ? If any, speak, for him have I offended. Who is here so rude that would not be a Roman? If any, speak, for him have I offended. Who is here so...
Сторінка 337 - 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...
Сторінка 322 - Was parmaceti for an inward bruise ; And that it was great pity, so it was, This villanous salt-petre should be digg'd Out of the bowels of the harmless earth, Which many a good tall fellow had destroy'd So cowardly ; and but for these vile guns, He would himself have been a soldier.
Сторінка 190 - And decks the goddess with the glittering spoil. This casket India's glowing gems unlocks, And all Arabia breathes from yonder box. The tortoise here and elephant unite, Transform'd to combs, the speckled and the white. Here files of pins extend their shining rows, Puffs, powders, patches, bibles, billets-doux.
Сторінка 222 - To hear the lark begin his flight And singing startle the dull night From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise; Then to come, in spite of sorrow, And at my window bid good-morrow Through the sweetbriar, or the vine, Or the twisted eglantine : While the cock with lively din Scatters the rear of darkness thin, And to the stack, or the barn-door, Stoutly struts his dames before...
Сторінка 213 - Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply: And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who, to dumb Forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er...
Сторінка 324 - Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast Seal up the ship-boy's eyes, and rock his brains In cradle of the rude imperious surge ; And in the visitation of the winds, "Who take the ruffian billows by the top, Curling their monstrous heads, and hanging them With deaf'ning clamours in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly * death itself awakes...
Сторінка 223 - And ever, against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out 140 With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony ; That Orpheus...