Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880 edition. Excerpt: ... 'Grave' example for very 'slow time' and very 'long pauses.' 2. "It must 11 be so. 1 Plato, thou reasonest well! Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing 111 after immortality 1 Or whence this secret dread 111 and inward horror 111 Of falling into nought? 1 Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction? 'T is the Divinity that stirs within us: 'T is Heaven itself 111 that points out an hereafter, And intimates Eternity 11 to man. Eternity!--1111 thou pleasing, --11 dreadful thought!" 1111 'Pathetic' example for 'slow' standard time. 3. "Alas! my noble boy! 111 that thou shouldst die! 111 Thou, 11 who wert made so beautifully fair! 111 That death should settle in thy glorious eye, And leave his 11 stillness 111 in thy clustering hair! 11 How could he mark thee for the silent tomb, (1 My proud boy, Absalom!" SLIDES. In perfectly natural speech, the voice rises or falls on eaeL, unemphatic syllable through the interval of one tone only, but on the accented syllable of an emphatic word it rises or falls MORE THAN ONE TONE. This last is called the inflection or 'slide' of the voice. The 'slides' are thus a part of emphasis, and as they give the right direction and limit to 'force' and 'time, ' they are the crowning part of perfect emphasis. When contrasted ideas, of equal importance, are coupled, nothing but the contrasted slides can give the proper distinctive emphasis. The slides also furnish to elocution its most ample and varied lights and shades of emotional expression. These slides are 'rising, ' marked thus ( ' ); or 'falling, ' marked thus ( ' ); or both of these blended, in the 'rising' circumflex, and the 'falling' circumflex, marked respectively thus (v) and thus...
