A Grammar of Elocution: Containing the Principles of the Arts of Reading and Speaking; Illustrated by Appropriate Exercises and Examples ...A. H. Maltby, 1830 - 344 pages |
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accented articulation aspiration Brutus cadence Cæsar called ceive cern concrete consonants degree delivery described diatonic scale discourse discrete downward slide earth effect elementary sounds Elocution Elocutionist emphasis emphatic employed equal wave example exercise expression eyes falling ditone falling slide fifth force forcible give Harfleur hath heard heart heaven high note Human Voice intervals light long quantity Lord loud marked marked radical measure median stress ments monotony natural nerally o'er octave pauses percussion persons plaintive practice pronounced pronunciation prosody public speaking quire racter radical pitch radical stress reading rise and fall rising ditone rising slide semitone sentence short soul speak speaker speech student sylla syllables TABLE OF CONSONANT TABLE OF VOWEL thee thine thing third thou art thought tion tone tremor unto utterance vanish vocal voice vowel elements vowel sounds words Δ Δ Δ ΙΔ
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Bibliographic information
| Title | A Grammar of Elocution: Containing the Principles of the Arts of Reading and Speaking; Illustrated by Appropriate Exercises and Examples ... |
| Author | Jonathan Barber |
| Publisher | A. H. Maltby, 1830 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 23 Feb 2007 |
| Length | 344 pages |
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