Exercises in Rhetorical Reading: With a Series of Introductory Lessons, Particularly Designed to Familiarize Readers with the Pauses and Other Marks in General Use, and Lead Them to the Practice of Modulation and Inflection of the VoiceA.S. Barnes & Company, 1849 - 432 sider |
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Side 15
... wish to become good readers ; and it cannot be too much recommended to them . Such a pronunciation gives weight and dignity to the subject . It is a great assistance to the voice , by the pauses and rests which it allows the reader more ...
... wish to become good readers ; and it cannot be too much recommended to them . Such a pronunciation gives weight and dignity to the subject . It is a great assistance to the voice , by the pauses and rests which it allows the reader more ...
Side 22
... wish to see a minute and ingenious investi- gation of the nature of these inflections , and the rules by which they are governed , may consult Walker's Elements of Elocution . " MANNER OF READING VERSE . " When we are reading verse ...
... wish to see a minute and ingenious investi- gation of the nature of these inflections , and the rules by which they are governed , may consult Walker's Elements of Elocution . " MANNER OF READING VERSE . " When we are reading verse ...
Side 51
... sudden stop . or change of the subject . EXAMPLES . 267. If you will give me your attention , I will show you - but stop , I do not know that you wish to see . 268. Alas ! that folly and falsehood should be so INTRODUCTORY LESSONS . 51.
... sudden stop . or change of the subject . EXAMPLES . 267. If you will give me your attention , I will show you - but stop , I do not know that you wish to see . 268. Alas ! that folly and falsehood should be so INTRODUCTORY LESSONS . 51.
Side 95
... wish no one to hear , except the person to whom we speak ; and is almost , but not quite , a whisper . Each one of these keys or pitches of the voice has different degrees of loudness ; and it is important that the pupil should exercise ...
... wish no one to hear , except the person to whom we speak ; and is almost , but not quite , a whisper . Each one of these keys or pitches of the voice has different degrees of loudness ; and it is important that the pupil should exercise ...
Side 120
... wishes a fuller development of the subject , is referred to Dr. Barber's Grammar of Elocution- -or to Dr. Rush's work , already mentioned , on the Philosophy of the Human Voice , Section 49th , entitled " the Rhythmus of Speech . " An ...
... wishes a fuller development of the subject , is referred to Dr. Barber's Grammar of Elocution- -or to Dr. Rush's work , already mentioned , on the Philosophy of the Human Voice , Section 49th , entitled " the Rhythmus of Speech . " An ...
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Side 78 - If you have tears, prepare to shed them now. You all do know this mantle: I remember The first time ever Caesar put it on; 'Twas on a summer's evening in his tent, That day he overcame the Nervii. Look! in this place ran Cassius...
Side 78 - tis his will : Let but the commons hear this testament, (Which, pardon me, I do not mean to read) And they would go and kiss dead Caesar's wounds, And dip their napkins in his sacred blood ; Yea, beg a hair of him for memory, And, dying, mention it within their wills, Bequeathing it, as a rich legacy, Unto their issue.
Side 319 - This many summers in a sea of glory, But far beyond my depth: my high-blown pride At length broke under me and now has left me, Weary and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me.
Side 232 - Nor you, ye proud, impute to these the fault, ' If memory o'er their tomb no trophies raise, Where through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault The pealing anthem swells the note of praise.
Side 117 - Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time, Calm or convulsed — in breeze or gale or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark heaving, boundless, endless, and sublime — The image of eternity — the throne Of the Invisible ; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made ; each zone Obeys thee ; thou goest forth, dread fathomless alone.
Side 96 - Strike — till the last armed foe expires; Strike — for your altars and your fires; Strike — for the green graves of your sires, God — and your native land!
Side 322 - And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve: After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep. After that he was seen of James; then of all the apostles. And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time.
Side 370 - And he said unto him, Thy brother is come; and thy father hath killed the fatted calf, because he hath received him safe and sound.
Side 57 - 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?
Side 182 - To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in heaven. As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale and midway leaves the storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are...