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... falling of the voice totally regardless of the nature or feeling of the subject delivered , and this careless unanimated whining manner , uncorrected , becomes a habit not easily eradicated . Now , we have to consider what are the ...
... falling of the voice totally regardless of the nature or feeling of the subject delivered , and this careless unanimated whining manner , uncorrected , becomes a habit not easily eradicated . Now , we have to consider what are the ...
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... not exist ; for in reading , the utterance should be so regulated as to fall on the ears of the auditors as though we were conveying to them the sentiments of the author - as if they were On Inflection . 11 On Inflection.
... not exist ; for in reading , the utterance should be so regulated as to fall on the ears of the auditors as though we were conveying to them the sentiments of the author - as if they were On Inflection . 11 On Inflection.
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... falls or slides downwards , and the last when both the rising and falling inflection is combined in the same word , or even in more than one , as is sometimes the case ; but when the voice continues on the same note , it is then said to ...
... falls or slides downwards , and the last when both the rising and falling inflection is combined in the same word , or even in more than one , as is sometimes the case ; but when the voice continues on the same note , it is then said to ...
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... falling , and to it also belongs the " full pause , " answering to the period or full stop , as before mentioned . But here it ... fall listlessly or feebly on the ear , so as to strain the attention of the auditor , or reduce him to the ...
... falling , and to it also belongs the " full pause , " answering to the period or full stop , as before mentioned . But here it ... fall listlessly or feebly on the ear , so as to strain the attention of the auditor , or reduce him to the ...
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... fall from it to a higher or lower key , it ought , with few exceptions , to be the one we should adopt when not excited by any particular passion - as , for instance , in calm narration , descriptive statement , or moral re- flection ...
... fall from it to a higher or lower key , it ought , with few exceptions , to be the one we should adopt when not excited by any particular passion - as , for instance , in calm narration , descriptive statement , or moral re- flection ...
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Popular passages
Page 400 - 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 313 - Though justice be thy plea, consider this — That, in the course of justice, none of us Should see salvation; we do pray for mercy; And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy.
Page 402 - Why should that name be sounded more than yours? Write them together, yours is as fair a name ; Sound them, it doth become the mouth as well ; Weigh them, it is as heavy ; conjure with them, Brutus will start a spirit as soon as Caesar.
Page 406 - I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deform'd, unfinish'd, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them; Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace, Have no delight to pass away the time, Unless to spy my shadow in the sun And descant on mine own deformity: And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover. To entertain these fair well-spoken days, I am determined...
Page 397 - Romans, countrymen, and lovers! hear me for my cause ; and be silent that you may hear : believe me for mine honour; and have respect to mine honour, that you may believe: censure me in your wisdom; and awake your senses that you may the better judge. If there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of Caesar's, to him I say, that Brutus' love to Caesar was no less than his.
Page 123 - Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights and live laborious days: But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears And slits the thin-spun life.
Page 402 - 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. I was born free as Caesar ; so were you : We both have fed as well, and we can both Endure the winter's cold as well as he : For once, upon a raw and gusty day, The troubled Tiber chafing with her shores, Caesar said to me ' Dar'st thou, Cassius, now Leap in with me into this angry flood, And swim to yonder point ? ' Upon the word, Accoutred as I...
Page 203 - Hear the sledges with the bells — Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night! While the stars that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight...
Page 430 - Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer Swung by seraphim whose foot-falls tinkled on the tufted floor. "Wretch," I cried, "thy God hath lent thee — by these angels he hath sent thee Respite — respite and nepenthe from thy memories of Lenore! Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe, and forget this lost Lenore!
Page 429 - surely that is something at my window lattice; Let me see, then, what thereat is, and this mystery explore: Let my heart be still a moment, and this mystery explore: Tis the wind and nothing more.