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Side xii
... falling . Walker , whom all Elocutionists in this particular have followed , says , that interrogative sentences formed without the interrogative words , such as who , why , what , assume the former ; while those formed with these ...
... falling . Walker , whom all Elocutionists in this particular have followed , says , that interrogative sentences formed without the interrogative words , such as who , why , what , assume the former ; while those formed with these ...
Side xii
... falling side , and that not in consequence of commencing with any par- ticular part of speech . We also assert , that , whenever , or wherever , this rising inflection is used , it is , in the strictest sense of the term , a question ...
... falling side , and that not in consequence of commencing with any par- ticular part of speech . We also assert , that , whenever , or wherever , this rising inflection is used , it is , in the strictest sense of the term , a question ...
Side xii
... falling and at another the rising slide to sen- tences , between which , if we look merely at their external appearances , no difference is discernible ? Is she so capri- cious , so vague , and indefinite , so ignorant of the language ...
... falling and at another the rising slide to sen- tences , between which , if we look merely at their external appearances , no difference is discernible ? Is she so capri- cious , so vague , and indefinite , so ignorant of the language ...
Side xiv
... falling inflection . To illustrate which , we shall give a few sentences , or parts of sentences . The following simple sentence , man is a being , comes under the latter part . It is the answer to some question expressed or understood ...
... falling inflection . To illustrate which , we shall give a few sentences , or parts of sentences . The following simple sentence , man is a being , comes under the latter part . It is the answer to some question expressed or understood ...
Side xv
... falling slide . On the other hand , should we fix on it does not matter what part of the expression , the question will as positively take the opposite slide . Suppose we are anxious about the sinful part of the idea , sinful must be ...
... falling slide . On the other hand , should we fix on it does not matter what part of the expression , the question will as positively take the opposite slide . Suppose we are anxious about the sinful part of the idea , sinful must be ...
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answer arms beauty behold Blackwood's Magazine blessing Bolus bosom Brutus Cæsar Catholics character cried death Demosthenes despair downward slide earth Edinburgh Review Elocutionists eloquence emphatic equal ERIN GO BRAGH eternal extract eyes fair falling inflection father favour fear feel give glory grave hand happy hast hath hear heard heart heaven honour hope interrogative interrogative words Ivanhoe King Lady language Latin Latin language laws live Lochinvar look Lord Massillon master ment mind nature never night o'er observations once Orator passion peace person phatic poor praise prayer pride principles question racter Rebecca reign rising inflection rising slide Rowena rule sense sentences sigh Sir John Moore Socrates soul speak spirit sweet tears tell tences thee thing thou thought throne tion truth Twas uncle Toby virtue Walker words
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Side 205 - KNOW ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime? Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime...
Side 238 - Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they? Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since ; their shores obey The stranger, slave or savage ; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts — not so thou Unchangeable, save to thy wild waves
Side 245 - They say it was a shocking sight After the field was won; For many thousand bodies here Lay rotting in the sun; But things like that, you know, must be After a famous victory. "Great praise the Duke of Marlbro' won, And our good Prince Eugene.
Side 232 - The spirits of your fathers Shall start from every wave ! — For the deck it was their field of fame, And Ocean was their grave...
Side 218 - Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve in Beauty's circle proudly gay, The midnight brought the signal-sound of strife, The morn the marshalling in arms — the day Battle's magnificently stern array...
Side 283 - With a bare bodkin ? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of ? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all...
Side 253 - As awaked from the dead, And amazed he stares around. Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise ! See the snakes that they rear, How they hiss in their hair, And the sparkles that flash from their eyes!
Side 253 - Think, O think it worth enjoying! Lovely Thais sits beside thee, Take the good the gods provide thee!
Side 250 - I'll meet the raging of the skies, But not an angry father." The boat has left a stormy land, A stormy sea before her, — When, oh ! too strong for human hand. The tempest gathered o'er her.
Side 217 - There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her Beauty and her Chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men...