A Practical Manual of Elocution: Embracing Voice and Gesture : Designed for Schools, Academies and Colleges, as Well as for Private LearnersSorin & Ball, 1845 - 331 páginas |
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... the present day . The work is progressive in its character , and numer- ously illustrated with figures so arranged that it might properly be called a self- instructor . We hope that there are num - mies 4 CALDWELL'S MANUAL OF ELOCUTION .
... the present day . The work is progressive in its character , and numer- ously illustrated with figures so arranged that it might properly be called a self- instructor . We hope that there are num - mies 4 CALDWELL'S MANUAL OF ELOCUTION .
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... characters have no separate sound appropri- ated to them , as c and x ; while others represent several sounds . Thus a often represents four , and sometimes a fifth ; and the other vowels , each two or more . There * Where the same ...
... characters have no separate sound appropri- ated to them , as c and x ; while others represent several sounds . Thus a often represents four , and sometimes a fifth ; and the other vowels , each two or more . There * Where the same ...
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... character to re- present them , as ou , oo , oi and oo among the vowels , and ng , th , sh , & c . , among the ... characters . And when these fundamental sounds are once fairly mastered , we shall hereafter see that they can be turned ...
... character to re- present them , as ou , oo , oi and oo among the vowels , and ng , th , sh , & c . , among the ... characters . And when these fundamental sounds are once fairly mastered , we shall hereafter see that they can be turned ...
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... * These may be called sub - tonics , with reference to the vowels , all of which possess the character of tonics in a higher degree . On the foregoing Tables we shall make only the follow- 34 MANUAL OF ELOCUTION . Consonants 3.
... * These may be called sub - tonics , with reference to the vowels , all of which possess the character of tonics in a higher degree . On the foregoing Tables we shall make only the follow- 34 MANUAL OF ELOCUTION . Consonants 3.
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... characters employed in our language do not , except in a few cases , of themselves indicate the exact sound to be given to them in the words in which they occur . This must be learned from Dictionaries , and by observing the best usage ...
... characters employed in our language do not , except in a few cases , of themselves indicate the exact sound to be given to them in the words in which they occur . This must be learned from Dictionaries , and by observing the best usage ...
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Página 144 - And let those that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them : for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the mean time, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered: that's villainous; and . shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.
Página 174 - Caesar carelessly but nod on him. He had a fever when he was in Spain ; And, when the fit was on him, I did mark How he did shake...
Página 131 - The gay will laugh When thou art gone, the solemn brood of care Plod on, and each one, as before, will chase His favorite phantom ; yet all these shall leave Their mirth and their employments, and shall come And make their bed with thee.
Página 110 - Perhaps thou gavest me, though unfelt, a kiss ; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss ; Ah, that maternal smile, it answers yes ! I heard the bell tolled on thy burial day, I saw the hearse that bore thee slow away, And, turning from my nursery window, drew A long, long sigh, and wept a last adieu ! But was it such ? It was.
Página 129 - HAIL, holy Light, offspring of Heaven first-born! Or of the Eternal coeternal beam May I express thee unblamed? since God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity — dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate!
Página 165 - 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 honours For so much trash as may be grasped thus ? — I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, Than such a Roman.
Página 112 - You say you are a better soldier: Let it appear so; make your vaunting true, And it shall please me well. For mine own part, I shall be glad to learn of noble men. Cas. You wrong me every way, you wrong me, Brutus; I said, an elder soldier, not a better: Did I say better?
Página 210 - 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 Heavens and Earth Rose out of Chaos...
Página 150 - This fellow's of exceeding honesty, And knows all qualities, with a learned spirit, Of human dealings. If I do prove her haggard, Though that her jesses were my dear heart-strings, I 'ld whistle her off and let her down the wind, To prey at fortune.
Página 174 - I cannot tell what you and other men Think of this life, but, for my single self, I had as lief not be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself.