A Rhetorical Grammar: In which 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 Modifications, and how They May be Applied to Different Species of Sentences and the Several Figures of Rhetoric : to which are Added Outlines of Composition, Or Plain Rules for Writing Orations and Speaking Them in Public |
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... actions , that , without the advantages of such an expiation and atonement as Christianity has revealed to us , it is impossible that he should be cleared before his sovereign Judge , or that he should be able to stand in his sight ...
... actions , that , without the advantages of such an expiation and atonement as Christianity has revealed to us , it is impossible that he should be cleared before his sovereign Judge , or that he should be able to stand in his sight ...
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... actions , or elegant enjoyments ; the greater part of our time passes in compliance with necèssities , in the per- formance of daily duties , in the removal of small inconvéniences , in the pro- curement of petty pleasures . Johnson . A ...
... actions , or elegant enjoyments ; the greater part of our time passes in compliance with necèssities , in the per- formance of daily duties , in the removal of small inconvéniences , in the pro- curement of petty pleasures . Johnson . A ...
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... action , would be degraded and ob- scured by a garb appropriated to the gross employments of rustics or mechán- ics , so the most heroic sentiments will lose their efficacy , and the most splendid ideas drop their magnificence , if they ...
... action , would be degraded and ob- scured by a garb appropriated to the gross employments of rustics or mechán- ics , so the most heroic sentiments will lose their efficacy , and the most splendid ideas drop their magnificence , if they ...
Page 133
... actions . Spectator , No. 104 . Here the sense extends to other before it begins to form , and , consequently , the voice must be carried on with little variation till that word is pronounced with the rising inflection and long pause ...
... actions . Spectator , No. 104 . Here the sense extends to other before it begins to form , and , consequently , the voice must be carried on with little variation till that word is pronounced with the rising inflection and long pause ...
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... action . Others are apt to attribute them to some false end or intention , and others purpose- ly misrepresent or put a wrong interpretation on them . Spect . No. 255 . Though the first part of this passage is marked with a period in ...
... action . Others are apt to attribute them to some false end or intention , and others purpose- ly misrepresent or put a wrong interpretation on them . Spect . No. 255 . Though the first part of this passage is marked with a period in ...
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ablative absolute accent admit Anacoenosis arguments asyndeton attention beauty begins Cæsar cæsura called character Cicero circumflex Clodius comma common composition considered Demosthenes depends diphthong discourse distinct distinguished Elements of Elocution emphasis emphatic words endeavour example express falling inflection figure following sentence force former give higher tone honour Ibid idea inflection of voice instance interrogation interrogative words Julius Cæsar kind language latter likewise long pause loose sentence loud lower tone manner Mark Antony marked meaning Milo mind monotone nature necessary object observed orator ornament Paradise Lost particular passage passion perceive perfect sense period person phatical Pompey pronounced pronunciation proper punctuation question Quintilian reader reading reason requires rhetoric rising inflection rule says semicolon short pause slide sound speaker speaking Spect Spectator style syllable tence thing tion tone of voice variety verb verse virtue vowels whole writing
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Page 226 - 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 hallowed haunt.
Page 176 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen ; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Page 43 - O thou that, with surpassing glory crowned, Look'st from thy sole dominion like the god Of this new World — at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminished heads — to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 Sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy Sphere...
Page 172 - While from the bounded level of our mind Short views we take, nor see the lengths behind : But more...
Page 244 - Annual for me, the grape, the rose renew The juice nectareous, and the balmy dew; For me, the mine a thousand treasures brings; For me, health gushes from a thousand springs; Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise; My foot-stool earth, my canopy the skies.
Page 176 - All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good: And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right.
Page 177 - 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 169 - Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky With hideous ruin and combustion down To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In adamantine* chains and penal fire, Who durst defy the Omnipotent to arms.
Page 242 - So cowardly ; and, but for these vile guns, He would himself have been a soldier.
Page 243 - tis true, this god did shake : His coward lips did from their colour fly, And that same eye whose bend doth awe the world Did lose his lustre : I did hear him groan : Ay, and that tongue of his that bade the Romans Mark him and write his speeches in their books, Alas, it cried ' Give me some drink, Titinius,