An Essay on Elocution: With Elucidatory Passages from Various Authors to which are Added Remarks on Reading Prose and Verse, with Suggestions to Instructors of the ArtWeare C. Little, 1860 - 300 頁 |
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... voice pro- gressively with the subject , until you come to its cluse , Examples . " The cloud - capt towers , the gorgeous palaces , The solemn temple- " PLAY OF THE Textner . " Sudden the heart Of this young , conquering , ESSAY ON ...
... voice pro- gressively with the subject , until you come to its cluse , Examples . " The cloud - capt towers , the gorgeous palaces , The solemn temple- " PLAY OF THE Textner . " Sudden the heart Of this young , conquering , ESSAY ON ...
第 12 頁
... Voice . Perhaps this may be a proper place to remark upon one of the most persuasive ornaments of reading and speaking , which is modulation . All the variations of the human voice spring from five inflections . The first of which ...
... Voice . Perhaps this may be a proper place to remark upon one of the most persuasive ornaments of reading and speaking , which is modulation . All the variations of the human voice spring from five inflections . The first of which ...
第 13 頁
... voice . Monotone being the first , we will suppose the smooth , level way , and as we cannot always have smooth level ways , we will suppose our next change to be an acclivity , which we will call the rising inflection . When we shall ...
... voice . Monotone being the first , we will suppose the smooth , level way , and as we cannot always have smooth level ways , we will suppose our next change to be an acclivity , which we will call the rising inflection . When we shall ...
第 14 頁
... voice immediately before the passage , or part of a sentence , by which you mean to make what is in oratory called your point . When you stop , let it be with an elevation of voice , which will leave the sense broken and incomplete ...
... voice immediately before the passage , or part of a sentence , by which you mean to make what is in oratory called your point . When you stop , let it be with an elevation of voice , which will leave the sense broken and incomplete ...
第 15 頁
... voice than the general subject . The reader or speaker , should slightly suspend his voice im- mediately before the parenthesis , and take up the same " tone at its close . Examples . " This moon , which rose last night , ( round as my ...
... voice than the general subject . The reader or speaker , should slightly suspend his voice im- mediately before the parenthesis , and take up the same " tone at its close . Examples . " This moon , which rose last night , ( round as my ...
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第 119 頁 - It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace — but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish ? What would they have ? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery ? Forbid it, Almighty God ! I know not what course others may take;...
第 150 頁 - When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept; Ambition should be made of sterner stuff. Yet Brutus says he was ambitious, And Brutus is an honorable man.
第 237 頁 - Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden flower grows wild ; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change, his place.
第 150 頁 - Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; •> I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil, that men do, lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones; \ So let it be with Caesar.
第 72 頁 - Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast.
第 17 頁 - In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men, fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face ; the hair of my flesh stood up. It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying, "Shall mortal man be more just than God?
第 131 頁 - Northern and Southern; Atlantic and Western; whence designing men may endeavor to excite a belief that there is a real difference of local interests and views. One of the expedients of Party to acquire influence, within particular districts, is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other Districts. You cannot shield yourselves too much against the jealousies and heart burnings which spring from these misrepresentations. They tend to render Alien to each other those who ought to be bound together...
第 270 頁 - twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street; On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the glowing Hours with flying feet.— But hark!
第 273 頁 - I STOOD in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs ; A palace and a prison on each hand : I saw from out the wave her structures rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand : A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dying Glory smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land Look'd to the winged Lion's marble piles, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles...
第 128 頁 - ... a cordial, habitual and immovable attachment to it ; accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the palladium of your political safety and prosperity ; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety ; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned ; and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our country from the rest, or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various...