Russell's American Elocutionist: The American Elocutionist; Comprising 'Lessons in Enunciation,' 'Exercises in Elocution,' and 'Rudiments of Gesture' ...Jenks and Palmer, 1845 - 380 pages |
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accented action appropriate arises articulation attention beauty becomes blank verse burning deck cadence character circumflex clause close commencing common common metre connexion declamation delivery diphthong distinct effect elocution emotion emphasis emphatic English language enunciation error example exemplified exer exercise expression falchion falling inflection fault feeling feet foot force forcible gesture give grace grave habit hand heart heaven iambic iambus Ireland king language latter learner lesson liberty light lord manner meaning mechanical mind moderate movement natural never o'er observed orthoepy passage pause Pecksniff peculiar phatic piece pitch poetic poetry position practice preceding produced pronounced pronunciation prose pupils reading requires rising inflection rule School sense sentence sentiment slide slow sound South Carolina speaker speaking speech spondee stanza strain style syllables teacher tence thee thou thought tion tone Trochaic trochee true unaccented utterance verse voice waves words
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Page 181 - 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.
Page 182 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale, She all night long her amorous descant sung...
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Page 187 - Ye winds, that have made me your sport, Convey to this desolate shore Some cordial endearing report Of a land I shall visit no more. My friends, do they now and then send A wish or a thought after me ? O tell me I yet have a friend, Though a friend I am never to see.
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Page 194 - The bell strikes one. We take no note of time, But from its loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the, knell of my departed hours : Where are they?
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