A Rhetorical Grammar: In which the Common Improprieties in Reading and Speaking are Detected and the True Sources of Elegant Pronunciation are Pointed Out : With a Complete Analysis of the Voice, Showing Its Specific Modification, and how They May be Applied to Different Figures of Rhetoric, to which are Added Outline of Composition, Or Plain Rules for Writing Orations and Speaking Them in Public |
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... adopt them , especially to those advanced in life , that I was generally obliged to follow the old method , ( if it may be called so ) " read as I read , without any reason for it . " - But without pretending to the gift of prophecy , I ...
... adopt them , especially to those advanced in life , that I was generally obliged to follow the old method , ( if it may be called so ) " read as I read , without any reason for it . " - But without pretending to the gift of prophecy , I ...
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... adopt this vehicle ; and if this should happen , I hope it will be remembered , that an unassisted and unpatronised Englishman was the first who dis- covered and explained it . CONTENTS . INTRODUCTION . Observations on some of the ...
... adopt this vehicle ; and if this should happen , I hope it will be remembered , that an unassisted and unpatronised Englishman was the first who dis- covered and explained it . CONTENTS . INTRODUCTION . Observations on some of the ...
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... adopted in practice . The utility of them he is fully persuaded of by a thousand experiments ; but of this the public at large are undoubtedly the best judges . RHETORICAL GRAMMAR . THAT part of Rhetoric which relates to iv INTRODUCTION .
... adopted in practice . The utility of them he is fully persuaded of by a thousand experiments ; but of this the public at large are undoubtedly the best judges . RHETORICAL GRAMMAR . THAT part of Rhetoric which relates to iv INTRODUCTION .
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... adopt- ed , because , though the piece may have the name of a tragedy , the scene may be really co- medy . The only rule , therefore , that can be given , is a very indefinite one ; namely , that thy ought always to be pronounced so as ...
... adopt- ed , because , though the piece may have the name of a tragedy , the scene may be really co- medy . The only rule , therefore , that can be given , is a very indefinite one ; namely , that thy ought always to be pronounced so as ...
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... adopted ; but it is perhaps impos- sible to refuse them a place in spoken language , where the subject is common and familiar ; though even here they should be indulged as little as possible : but be this as it may , they cer- tainly ...
... adopted ; but it is perhaps impos- sible to refuse them a place in spoken language , where the subject is common and familiar ; though even here they should be indulged as little as possible : but be this as it may , they cer- tainly ...
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accent agreeable arguments arises Asyndeton attention beauty beginning blank verse Cæsar Cæsura called cause character Cicero circumflex Clodius common composition consider consonant couplet defendant Demosthenes discourse distinct distinguished Elocution emphasis emphatic words endeavour example express falling inflexion figure flexion following sentence force former give higher tone honour Ibid idea inflexion of voice instance interrogative interrogative words Julius Cæsar kind language latter likewise long pause lower tone manner mark meaning Milo mind monotone nature necessary nounced nunciation object observed orator ornament particular passage passion perly person phatic Polysyndeton Pompey principal pronounced pronunciation proper propriety prose punctuation question Quintilian quires racter reader reading reason requires Rhetoric riety rising inflexion Roman rule says slide sound speaker speaking Spect Spectator style syllable tence thing thou thought tion tone of voice unaccented variety verb verse virtue vowels whole writing
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Page 229 - God save him; No joyful tongue gave him his welcome home : But dust was thrown upon his sacred head ; Which with such gentle sorrow he shook off, — His face still combating with tears and smiles, The badges of his grief and patience ; — That had not God, for some strong purpose, steel'd The hearts of men, they must perforce have melted, And barbarism itself have pitied him.
Page 29 - O thou, that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion, like the god Of this new world; at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads ; to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 sun ! to tell thee how I hate thy beams...
Page 224 - And when the Sun begins to fling His flaring beams, me, Goddess, bring To arched walks of twilight groves, And shadows brown that Sylvan loves Of Pine, or monumental Oak, Where the rude Axe with heaved stroke, Was never heard the Nymphs to daunt, Or fright them from their hallow'd haunt.
Page 173 - When the proud steed shall know why man restrains His fiery course, or drives him o'er the plains ; When the dull ox, why now he breaks the clod, Is now a victim, and now Egypt's god : Then shall man's pride and dulness comprehend His actions', passions', being's use and end ; Why doing, suffering, check'd, impell'd; and why This hour a slave, the next a deity.
Page 230 - OF Man's First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death into the World, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat, Sing Heav'nly Muse...
Page 225 - Th' inferior priestess, at her altar's side, Trembling, begins the sacred rites of Pride. Unnumber'd treasures ope at once, and here The various offerings of the world appear ; From each she nicely culls with curious toil, And decks the goddess with the glittering spoil.
Page 158 - OF all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
Page 175 - Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear : Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Some village- Hampden, that, with dauntless breast, The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. Th...
Page 167 - And wisely curb'd proud man's pretending wit. As on the land while here the ocean gains, In other parts it leaves wide sandy plains ; Thus in the soul while memory prevails, The solid pow'r of understanding fails ; Where beams of warm imagination play, The memory's soft figures melt away.
Page 205 - 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.