The Practice of Elocution, Or A Course of Exercises for Acquiring the Several Requisites of a Good DeliveryJ. Richardson, 1826 - 213 pages |
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... common defects of utterance will generally be found . The consonant letters afford but little assistance toward ... common or dental s , as in seal , mace , hiss . 5. The common or dental z , as in zeal , maze , his . 6. The palatal s ...
... common defects of utterance will generally be found . The consonant letters afford but little assistance toward ... common or dental s , as in seal , mace , hiss . 5. The common or dental z , as in zeal , maze , his . 6. The palatal s ...
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... common or dental n , as in no , gnaw , sign , 15. The palatal n , as in ring , bank , hanger , anger . 16. r , in its two varieties ; viz . The rough or consonant r , as in ray , around . The smooth or vowel r , as in mar , virtue . 17 ...
... common or dental n , as in no , gnaw , sign , 15. The palatal n , as in ring , bank , hanger , anger . 16. r , in its two varieties ; viz . The rough or consonant r , as in ray , around . The smooth or vowel r , as in mar , virtue . 17 ...
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... common or dental sounds of those letters . Yet perhaps where s and z assume the palatal sounds , they were once dental , with only such changes of the breath into the voice sound as the last exercise exhibited . The change into the ...
... common or dental sounds of those letters . Yet perhaps where s and z assume the palatal sounds , they were once dental , with only such changes of the breath into the voice sound as the last exercise exhibited . The change into the ...
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... common fault of unculti- vated speakers , to employ the dental n , where good custom re- quires the palatal n ; and it not unfrequently happens that they who try to pronounce this consonant accurately , go beyond the mark , and , misled ...
... common fault of unculti- vated speakers , to employ the dental n , where good custom re- quires the palatal n ; and it not unfrequently happens that they who try to pronounce this consonant accurately , go beyond the mark , and , misled ...
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Benjamin Humphrey Smart. mark , and , misled by orthography , actually add the common g to the palatal n , converting king , song , young , & c . into king - g , song - g , young - g , & c . At the same time it must be remarked , that ...
Benjamin Humphrey Smart. mark , and , misled by orthography , actually add the common g to the palatal n , converting king , song , young , & c . into king - g , song - g , young - g , & c . At the same time it must be remarked , that ...
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Anger ARGUMENTATIVE MANNER beauty blood BREATH CONSONANTS Caius Verres called CHair match clause clouds cohobate common Conclusive Accents Contempt death decemvirs Delight denote downward accent Dread Elocution emphatic accent exercises Exultation fair Falstaff father fear feeling Fenton Firmness follow force friends give Grief hand happiness heard heart heaven honour Indignation Interrogative Words italic justice Justice Shallow king letter light looks Lord meaning MEDITATIVE MANNER merely modulative mind mingled modulation Narrative manner nature o'er Open vowels ophthalmy palatal passions Pity PLAINTIVE EXPRESSION Plaintive manner pleasures pride Prince Henry pronounced pupil rate of utterance reader relaxes rises Scorn sentence SHAKSPEARE shut sounds smiling soul speak speaker Suspensive and Conclusive sweet syllables theatres of blood thee thing thou thought tion tone tongue trembling triphthong unaccented syllables upward Vehemence VEHEMENT EXPRESSION virtue VOICE CONSONANTS words youth