Elements of Elocution: In which the Principles of Reading and Speaking are Investigated ... with Directions for Strengthening and Modulating the Voice ... to which is Added a Complete System of the Passions, Showing how They Affect the Countenance, Tone of Voice, and Gesture of the Body : Exemplified by a Copious Selection of the Most Striking Passages of Shakespeare : the Whole Illustrated by Copper-plates Explaining the Nature of Accent, Emphasis, Inflection, and CadenceD. Mallory & Company, 1810 - 379 頁 |
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第 43 頁
... mind to sink into that negligence and remissness , which are apt to accompany our more sensual delights . — Spec- tator , No. 411 . In the first of these sentences we find the conjunc tion that modifies or restrains the meaning of the ...
... mind to sink into that negligence and remissness , which are apt to accompany our more sensual delights . — Spec- tator , No. 411 . In the first of these sentences we find the conjunc tion that modifies or restrains the meaning of the ...
第 46 頁
... mind . A period may be direct , and its parts as necessari- ly connected , where only the first conjunction is ex- pressed . EXAMPLE . As in my speculations I have endeavoured to extinguish passion and prejudice , I am still desirous of ...
... mind . A period may be direct , and its parts as necessari- ly connected , where only the first conjunction is ex- pressed . EXAMPLE . As in my speculations I have endeavoured to extinguish passion and prejudice , I am still desirous of ...
第 55 頁
... mind , to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune ; Or to take arms against a sea of troubles , And by opposing end them ? Shakespeare . If it were necessary for breathing to pause any where in this passage , we should find a ...
... mind , to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune ; Or to take arms against a sea of troubles , And by opposing end them ? Shakespeare . If it were necessary for breathing to pause any where in this passage , we should find a ...
第 59 頁
... mind may contemplate for a moment separately from the adverb which modifies it ; and as this adverb is accompanied by others , they form a class more united by similitude with each other than with the verb they modify ; and distin ...
... mind may contemplate for a moment separately from the adverb which modifies it ; and as this adverb is accompanied by others , they form a class more united by similitude with each other than with the verb they modify ; and distin ...
第 60 頁
... mind no object to rest on ; and so intimately are they always connected , that , though the modified word comes first , and by this means affords the mind a momentary pause , yet . no pause is admitted between the modified and the ...
... mind no object to rest on ; and so intimately are they always connected , that , though the modified word comes first , and by this means affords the mind a momentary pause , yet . no pause is admitted between the modified and the ...
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第 324 頁 - The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids that weave their thread with bones, Do use to chant it ; it is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age.
第 338 頁 - Seems, madam ! nay, it is ; I know not seems. 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black...
第 324 頁 - If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it: that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.
第 324 頁 - I'd have you do it ever: when you sing, I'd have you buy and sell so; so give alms; Pray so ; and, for the ordering your affairs, To sing them too : When you do dance, I wish you A wave o...
第 266 頁 - OF Man's First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death into the World, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat, Sing Heav'nly Muse, that on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That Shepherd, who first taught the chosen Seed, In the Beginning how the Heav'ns and Earth Rose out of Chaos...
第 351 頁 - I'll leave you till night: you are welcome to Elsinore. Ros. Good my lord ! [Exeunt Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Ham. Ay, so, God be wi' you : — Now I am alone. O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I ! Is it not monstrous, that this player here, But in a fiction, in a dream of passion, Could force his soul so to his own conceit...
第 337 頁 - I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano ; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine a sad one.
第 295 頁 - I had a thing to say, — but let it go : The sun is in the heaven, and the proud day, Attended with the pleasures of the world, Is all too wanton, and too full of gawds, To give me audience : — If the midnight bell Did, with his iron tongue and brazen mouth, Sound on into the drowsy race of night...
第 362 頁 - Julius bleed for justice' sake? What villain touch'd his body, that did stab, And not for justice? What, shall one of us, That struck the foremost man of all this world, But for supporting robbers; shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes? And sell the mighty space of our large...
第 338 頁 - My mother had a maid call'd Barbara : She was in love ; and he she lov'd prov'd mad, And did forsake her : she had a song of " willow ;" An old thing 'twas, but it express'd her fortune, And she died singing it...