A Rhetorical Grammar: In which Improprieties in Reading and Speaking are Detected, and the True Sources of Elegant Pronunciation are Pointed Out : with a Complete Analysis of the Voice, Showing Its Specific Modifications, and how They May be Applied to Different Species of Sentences and the Several Figures of Rhetoric : to which are Added Outlines of Composition, Or Plain Rules for Writing Orations and Speaking Them in PublicCummings and Hilliard, 1822 - 383 頁 |
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第 1 到 5 筆結果，共 82 筆
第 vii 頁
... tion and sion 30 Pronouncing S indistinctly after ST ib . Pronouncing W for V , and inversely 31 Not sounding H after W 32 Not sounding H where it ought to be sounded , and inversely 33 Suppressing E where it should be pronounced , and ...
... tion and sion 30 Pronouncing S indistinctly after ST ib . Pronouncing W for V , and inversely 31 Not sounding H after W 32 Not sounding H where it ought to be sounded , and inversely 33 Suppressing E where it should be pronounced , and ...
第 xii 頁
... tion and action , and which may be called the soul of oratory , is , from its very nature , less capable of being communicated by writing , and has therefore been less improved by the joint labours of succeeding ages ; and thus , while ...
... tion and action , and which may be called the soul of oratory , is , from its very nature , less capable of being communicated by writing , and has therefore been less improved by the joint labours of succeeding ages ; and thus , while ...
第 xiii 頁
... tion of voice ; and an old writer , Charles Butler , of Magdalen college , Oxford , has in his English Gram- mar gone one step farther , and told us , that this spe- cies of interrogation not only requires an elevation but a different ...
... tion of voice ; and an old writer , Charles Butler , of Magdalen college , Oxford , has in his English Gram- mar gone one step farther , and told us , that this spe- cies of interrogation not only requires an elevation but a different ...
第 17 頁
... tion , has been so elaborately treated both by the an- cients and moderns , that I shall in some measure invert the common order , and at first chiefly confine myself to that branch of it , which relates to pronun- ciation and delivery ...
... tion , has been so elaborately treated both by the an- cients and moderns , that I shall in some measure invert the common order , and at first chiefly confine myself to that branch of it , which relates to pronun- ciation and delivery ...
第 24 頁
... tion of these consonants , when the accent comes before them , and the inverted diphthongs succeed . This is evident in the numerous terminations in tion , sion , cion ; and if we had words ending in dion , it is not to be doubted but ...
... tion of these consonants , when the accent comes before them , and the inverted diphthongs succeed . This is evident in the numerous terminations in tion , sion , cion ; and if we had words ending in dion , it is not to be doubted but ...
常見字詞
accent Anacoenosis appear arguments arise Aristotle asyndeton atheism attention beauty begins blank verse Cæsar cæsura called cause character Cicero circumflex Clodius comma common composition considered couplet Demosthenes depends diphthong discourse distinct distinguished Elements of Elocution emphasis emphatic words endeavour example express falling inflection figure following sentence force former give higher tone honour Ibid idea inflection of voice instance interrogation interrogative words Julius Cæsar kind language latter likewise long pause lower tone manner mark Mark Antony meaning Milo mind monotone nature necessary nounced object observed orator ornament Paradise Lost particular passage passion person phatical Pompey principal pronounced pronunciation proper prose punctuation question Quintilian reader reading reason requires rhetoric rising inflection Roman rule says slide sound speaker speaking Spect Spectator style tence thing tion tone of voice unaccented syllables variety verb verse virtue vowels whole writing
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第 222 頁 - And when the sun begins to fling His flaring beams, me, Goddess, bring To arched walks of twilight groves, And shadows brown that Sylvan loves Of pine, or monumental oak, Where the rude axe with heaved stroke Was never heard the Nymphs to daunt, Or fright them from their hallowed haunt.
第 172 頁 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen ; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
第 39 頁 - O thou that, with surpassing glory crowned, Look'st from thy sole dominion like the god Of this new World — at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminished heads — to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 Sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy Sphere...
第 168 頁 - While from the bounded level of our mind Short views we take, nor see the lengths behind : But more...
第 240 頁 - Annual for me, the grape, the rose renew The juice nectareous, and the balmy dew; For me, the mine a thousand treasures brings; For me, health gushes from a thousand springs; Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise; My foot-stool earth, my canopy the skies.
第 172 頁 - All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good: And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right.
第 173 頁 - When the proud steed shall know why man restrains His fiery course, or drives him o'er the plains ; When the dull ox, why now he breaks the clod, Is now a victim, and now Egypt's god : Then shall man's pride and dulness comprehend His actions', passions', being's use and end ; Why doing, suffering, check'd, impell'd; and why This hour a slave, the next a deity.
第 165 頁 - Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky With hideous ruin and combustion down To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In adamantine* chains and penal fire, Who durst defy the Omnipotent to arms.
第 238 頁 - So cowardly ; and, but for these vile guns, He would himself have been a soldier.
第 239 頁 - tis true, this god did shake : His coward lips did from their colour fly, And that same eye whose bend doth awe the world Did lose his lustre : I did hear him groan : Ay, and that tongue of his that bade the Romans Mark him and write his speeches in their books, Alas, it cried ' Give me some drink, Titinius,