The Elements of Reading and OratoryD. Appleton, 1850 - 356 sider |
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Side 31
... pauses , and so prepare the way to understand the classification and description of sentences on succeeding pages . Their special application , I deem it best to re- Berve until the subject of structure shall be under consideration . Pauses ...
... pauses , and so prepare the way to understand the classification and description of sentences on succeeding pages . Their special application , I deem it best to re- Berve until the subject of structure shall be under consideration . Pauses ...
Side 32
... pause , it suspends the voice , in unimpassioned reading or speaking , sufficiently long to draw breath : under the influence of emotion , its time is indefinite . NOTE I. By imperfect sense , I mean sense imperfect according to the ...
... pause , it suspends the voice , in unimpassioned reading or speaking , sufficiently long to draw breath : under the influence of emotion , its time is indefinite . NOTE I. By imperfect sense , I mean sense imperfect according to the ...
Side 34
... pause which , according to the rule , should be placed at the end of it . But if this makes perfect sense , so , for the same reason , does the next ; and the next ; until we reach the end ; each of them in succession rejecting the ...
... pause which , according to the rule , should be placed at the end of it . But if this makes perfect sense , so , for the same reason , does the next ; and the next ; until we reach the end ; each of them in succession rejecting the ...
Side 35
... pause is necessary after the subject , only , when it is under emphasis : a fact which has hitherto escaped the attention of writers on elocution . Place the emphasis on the verb or any succeeding word , and the pause disappears . This ...
... pause is necessary after the subject , only , when it is under emphasis : a fact which has hitherto escaped the attention of writers on elocution . Place the emphasis on the verb or any succeeding word , and the pause disappears . This ...
Side 36
Henry Mandeville. morning it is cut down in the evening ; " and a pause may be made with propriety before in , in each member of the sentence . It will be seen , hereafter , that the effect of emphasis is precisely the same , at such a ...
Henry Mandeville. morning it is cut down in the evening ; " and a pause may be made with propriety before in , in each member of the sentence . It will be seen , hereafter , that the effect of emphasis is precisely the same , at such a ...
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3d FORM accent alphabetical Art thou Balt beauty beginning black crows blessed Cæsar character Christ circumflex Classif colon comma compact sentence compound sentence connected correlative words expressed death decl definite interrogative delivered delivery diphthong double compact earth elocution emphasis emphatic words employed English language Examples exclamation exclamatory sentences falling slide father followed fragmentary give glory hand happy hath heard heart heaven honor imperfect sense indefinite indirect interrogative interrogative sentences kind land liberty look loose sentence Lord lower sweep mind mixed sentence nature o'er parenthesis partial close passions pause peace perfect close phatic preceding proposition punctuation relative pronouns Rule semi-interrogative semicolon Sent simple sentence single compact soul sound speak spirit syllable tence thee thing thought tion triphthong truth understood unto verbs virtue voice vowel
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Side 98 - Liberty first and Union afterwards'; but everywhere, spread all over in characters of living light, blazing on all its ample folds, as they float over the sea and over the land, and in every wind under the whole heavens, that other sentiment, dear to every true American heart, Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable...
Side 163 - The hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun,— the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between; The venerable woods— rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste,— Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man.
Side 338 - And the heavy night hung dark The hills and waters o'er, When a band of exiles moored their bark On the wild New England shore. Not as the conqueror comes, They, the true-hearted, came ; Not with the roll of the stirring drums, And the trumpet that sings of fame; Not as the flying come, In silence and in fear; They shook the depths of the desert gloom With their hymns of lofty cheer.
Side 35 - Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners...
Side 180 - With charm of earliest birds ; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew ; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers ; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild ; then silent night, With this her solemn bird, and this fair moon, And these the gems of heaven, her starry train...
Side 252 - For if the word spoken by angels was steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward ; how shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation ; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him...
Side 133 - Wednesday. Doth he feel it ? No. Doth he hear it? No. Is it insensible then ? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living ? No. Why ? Detraction will not suffer it : — therefore I'll none of it: Honour is a mere 'scutcheon, and so ends my catechism.
Side 116 - The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless spirit, speaking on the tongue, beaming from the eye, informing every feature, and urging the whole man onward, right onward to his object — this, this is eloquence ; or rather it is something greater and higher than all eloquence, it is action, noble, sublime, godlike action.
Side 183 - When thoughts Of the last bitter hour come like a blight Over thy spirit, and sad images Of the stern agony and shroud and pall And breathless darkness and the narrow house Make thee to shudder and grow sick at heart...
Side 260 - Nay, but O man, who art thou that repliest against God ? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus...