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... close of a sentence . The following lines may be practised as an exercise in articulation , especially in the production of open vowel sounds , the words being spoken with the full force of the voice , and generally a pause being made ...
... close of a sentence . The following lines may be practised as an exercise in articulation , especially in the production of open vowel sounds , the words being spoken with the full force of the voice , and generally a pause being made ...
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... close When the girls are weaving baskets , And the lads are shaping bows ; When the goodman mends his armour , And trims his helmet's plume ; When the goodwife's shuttle merrily Goes flashing through the loom ; With weeping and with ...
... close When the girls are weaving baskets , And the lads are shaping bows ; When the goodman mends his armour , And trims his helmet's plume ; When the goodwife's shuttle merrily Goes flashing through the loom ; With weeping and with ...
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... close ; Something attempted , something done , Has earned a night's repose . Thanks , thanks to thee , my worthy friend , For the lesson thou hast taught ! Thus at the flaming forge of Life Our fortunes must be wrought ! Thus on its ...
... close ; Something attempted , something done , Has earned a night's repose . Thanks , thanks to thee , my worthy friend , For the lesson thou hast taught ! Thus at the flaming forge of Life Our fortunes must be wrought ! Thus on its ...
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... close of day , sedate as the face of things . However my social hours are enlivened with innocent pleasantry , let the evening , in her sober habit , toll the bell to serious consideration . Every meddling and intrusive avocation is ...
... close of day , sedate as the face of things . However my social hours are enlivened with innocent pleasantry , let the evening , in her sober habit , toll the bell to serious consideration . Every meddling and intrusive avocation is ...
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... the sentence to an emphatic close upon the last of " divine . " In this way all the opposition in the sense will be brought out clearly by the voice . Take also Rochester's lines : - " Here lies our 56 Outlines of the Art of Elocution .
... the sentence to an emphatic close upon the last of " divine . " In this way all the opposition in the sense will be brought out clearly by the voice . Take also Rochester's lines : - " Here lies our 56 Outlines of the Art of Elocution .
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accented syllable adjectives ALDERSGATE STREET Alliteration Amphibrach antithesis argument arms Articulation audience beautiful blank verse breath Brutus Cęsar cęsura character circumflex inflection clauses climax consonants delight doth earth effect Elocution emphasis emphatic English Erin Erin go bragh Excelsior expression eyes fall feet following lines following sentences foot force friends gesture give glory grammatical hand hath heard heart heaven Henry of Navarre honourable idea implied meanings important king larynx light loud modulation movement nature Nelly Gray never night o'er open vowel oratory passion pause pharynx phatic poetry pronunciation rendered rhetorical rhyme rhythm rise Rome rule sense Shakespeare singing SOLILOQUY soul speaker speaking specimens speech spirit spoken stars stress sweet thee things thou thought three syllables thunder tone tongue trochaic Trochee unaccented syllables upward inflection variety verse vocal voice vowel sounds wild words
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Page 63 - Ring out the grief that saps the mind, For those that here we see no more : Ring out the feud of rich and poor, Ring in redress to all mankind. Ring out a slowly dying cause, And ancient forms of party strife: Ring in the nobler modes of life, With sweeter manners, purer laws.
Page 52 - Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery ! Our chains are forged. Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston ! The war is inevitable ; and let it come ! I repeat it, sir, let it come ! It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, peace, peace ! — but there is no peace.
Page 42 - Keen as are the arrows Of that silver sphere, Whose intense lamp narrows In the white dawn clear Until we hardly see, we feel that it is there.
Page 69 - 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.
Page 25 - Now strike the golden lyre again : A louder yet, and yet a louder strain ! Break his bands of sleep asunder And rouse him like a rattling peal of thunder. Hark, hark ! the horrid sound Has raised up his head : As awaked from the dead And amazed he stares around. Revenge, revenge...
Page 71 - But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man, That love my friend ; and that they know full well That gave me public leave to speak of him : For I have neither wit,* nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech, To stir men's blood : I only speak right on...
Page 70 - 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...
Page 61 - Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much ; Who, born for the Universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.
Page 27 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labors, and the words move slow: Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Page 76 - Thou too, hoar Mount! with thy sky-pointing peaks, Oft from whose feet the avalanche, unheard, Shoots downward, glittering through the pure serene Into the depth of clouds, that veil thy breast— Thou too again, stupendous Mountain! thou That as I raise my head, awhile bowed low In adoration, upward from thy base Slow travelling with dim eyes suffused with tears...