A class-book of elocutionJohnstone and Hunter, 1853 - 360 páginas |
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... whole science of elocution one more frequently violated , and , consequently , that serves as a better test of the reader . The practice generally is , like the old “ use and wont " of the monotonous school - boy , to assign the fall ...
... whole science of elocution one more frequently violated , and , consequently , that serves as a better test of the reader . The practice generally is , like the old “ use and wont " of the monotonous school - boy , to assign the fall ...
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... whole system of modulation , that the great purpose of the rising slide is to express either opposition or suspension . It is seldom used either in ordinary life or in the systems of elocution , where contrast is not implied or where ...
... whole system of modulation , that the great purpose of the rising slide is to express either opposition or suspension . It is seldom used either in ordinary life or in the systems of elocution , where contrast is not implied or where ...
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... whole . An author may be just in his senti- ments , lively in his figures , and clear in his expression ; yet may have no claim to be admitted into the rank of finished writers . The several members must be so agreeably united , as ...
... whole . An author may be just in his senti- ments , lively in his figures , and clear in his expression ; yet may have no claim to be admitted into the rank of finished writers . The several members must be so agreeably united , as ...
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... without thée is sweet . " So also in the Suspension- " Suppósing the whole body of the earth were a great ball or máss of the fìnest sánd , and that a síngle gràin or párticle of this sand should 32 PRINCIPLES AND EXERCISES .
... without thée is sweet . " So also in the Suspension- " Suppósing the whole body of the earth were a great ball or máss of the fìnest sánd , and that a síngle gràin or párticle of this sand should 32 PRINCIPLES AND EXERCISES .
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... whole màss of sand were thus annihilated , at the rate of óne sànd in a thousand years ; which of these twō cáses would you māke yoūr choice ? " In all such sentences , though there is a continual recurrence to the rising inflection on ...
... whole màss of sand were thus annihilated , at the rate of óne sànd in a thousand years ; which of these twō cáses would you māke yoūr choice ? " In all such sentences , though there is a continual recurrence to the rising inflection on ...
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Página 45 - Honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on ? how then ? Can honour set to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound ? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then ? No. What is honour? A word. What is in that word, honour? What is that honour? Air. A trim reckoning ! — Who hath it? He that died o
Página 283 - Lands intersected by a narrow frith Abhor each other. Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one.
Página 330 - Seems, madam! nay, it is; I know not seems. 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black, Nor windy suspiration of forc'd breath, No, nor the fruitful river in the eye.
Página 114 - The depth saith, It is not in me; and the sea saith, It is not with me. It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof.
Página 265 - Is it far away in some region old, Where the rivers wander o'er sands of gold ? Where the burning rays of the ruby shine, And the diamond lights up the secret mine, And the pearl gleams forth from the coral strand — Is it there, sweet mother, that better land ? Not there ; not there, my child.
Página 217 - ON Linden, when the sun was low, All bloodless lay the untrodden snow, And dark as winter was the flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly. But Linden saw another sight, When the drum beat at dead of night, Commanding fires of death to light The darkness of her scenery.
Página 275 - Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow...
Página 94 - tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them ? — To die — to sleep — No more ; and, by a sleep, to say we end The heartache, and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to — 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die — to sleep ; — To sleep ! perchance to dream : — ay, there's the rub ; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal...
Página 208 - There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar...
Página 299 - Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.