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... syllables that have no accent , and ought therefore to be uttered as quickly as consistent with distinct articu lation ; or prolonging the sound of the accented syllables beyond their due proportion of time . " SECTION II . OF ...
... syllables that have no accent , and ought therefore to be uttered as quickly as consistent with distinct articu lation ; or prolonging the sound of the accented syllables beyond their due proportion of time . " SECTION II . OF ...
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... syllable of words ending in ent , ar , ant , ence and ance , as in - government , auricular , inhabitant , evidence , igno- rance . Indeed bad habits of articulating the vowels are liable to deform in utterance almost every word and ...
... syllable of words ending in ent , ar , ant , ence and ance , as in - government , auricular , inhabitant , evidence , igno- rance . Indeed bad habits of articulating the vowels are liable to deform in utterance almost every word and ...
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... syllable from the organs of speech unfinished , or to hasten the rate of utterance beyond that of the utmost ... syllables are considered as long or short , according to the time given them in utterance . When , however , time is ...
... syllable from the organs of speech unfinished , or to hasten the rate of utterance beyond that of the utmost ... syllables are considered as long or short , according to the time given them in utterance . When , however , time is ...
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... syllables capable of quantity is of infinite im- portance to the effect of delivery , at the same time that it may ... syllables . If however , even in this situ- ation , the short vowel is preceded by a tonic consonant , it is ...
... syllables capable of quantity is of infinite im- portance to the effect of delivery , at the same time that it may ... syllables . If however , even in this situ- ation , the short vowel is preceded by a tonic consonant , it is ...
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... syllable forcibly ut- tered . We shall therefore propose some exercises which , * The exercises proposed in the next section on Stress are equally well adapted to the improvement of the voice , as regards Quantity . while they ...
... syllable forcibly ut- tered . We shall therefore propose some exercises which , * The exercises proposed in the next section on Stress are equally well adapted to the improvement of the voice , as regards Quantity . while they ...
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Page 144 - And let those that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them : for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the mean time, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered: that's villainous; and . shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.
Page 174 - Caesar carelessly but nod on him. He had a fever when he was in Spain ; And, when the fit was on him, I did mark How he did shake...
Page 174 - 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.
Page 131 - The gay will laugh When thou art gone, the solemn brood of care Plod on, and each one, as before, will chase His favorite phantom ; yet all these shall leave Their mirth and their employments, and shall come And make their bed with thee.
Page 130 - Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests: in all time, Calm or convulsed — in breeze, or gale, or storm. Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark-heaving; — boundless, endless, and sublime; The image of eternity, the throne Of the Invisible: even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Page 110 - Perhaps thou gavest me, though unfelt, a kiss ; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss ; Ah, that maternal smile, it answers yes ! I heard the bell tolled on thy burial day, I saw the hearse that bore thee slow away, And, turning from my nursery window, drew A long, long sigh, and wept a last adieu ! But was it such ? It was.
Page 130 - And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?
Page 165 - Julius bleed for justice sake • What villain touched his body, that did stab, And not for justice ? What, shall one of us, That struck the foremost man of all this world, But for supporting robbers — shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes? And sell the mighty space of our large honors For so much trash, as may be grasped thus ? I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, Than such a Roman.
Page 143 - Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines.
Page 129 - HAIL, holy Light, offspring of Heaven first-born! Or of the Eternal coeternal beam May I express thee unblamed? since God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity — dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate!