A Rhetorical Grammar: In which the Common Improprieties in Reading and Speaking are Detected, and the True Sources of Elegant Pronunciation are Pointed Out ... To which are Added, Outlines of Composition, Or, Plain Rules for Writing Orations, and Speaking Them in Public ...J. Johnson ... J. Walker ... G. Wilkie, and J. Robinson ... and G. Robinson ... and T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1807 - 373 من الصفحات |
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... mark to the eye some of those modifications of tone and inflexion , which form the essence of a good enunciation . Pauses , dashes , and notes of interrogation , exclamation , and parenthesis , are but so many attempts to fa- cilitate ...
... mark to the eye some of those modifications of tone and inflexion , which form the essence of a good enunciation . Pauses , dashes , and notes of interrogation , exclamation , and parenthesis , are but so many attempts to fa- cilitate ...
الصفحة 8
... mark of elegant pronun- ciation . For the sound of unaccented a , of e before r , and i when it has the diphthongal sound like eye , see Critical Pronouncing Dic- tionary , in the principles prefixed , at Nos 92 , 98 , 114 , 115 & c ...
... mark of elegant pronun- ciation . For the sound of unaccented a , of e before r , and i when it has the diphthongal sound like eye , see Critical Pronouncing Dic- tionary , in the principles prefixed , at Nos 92 , 98 , 114 , 115 & c ...
الصفحة 11
... mark a speaker as either coarse or elegant ; as he adopts or neglects it . ແ This sound is taken notice of by Steele in his English Grammar , p . 49 , so long ago as the reign of queen Anne : but he ascribes it to the consonant's being ...
... mark a speaker as either coarse or elegant ; as he adopts or neglects it . ແ This sound is taken notice of by Steele in his English Grammar , p . 49 , so long ago as the reign of queen Anne : but he ascribes it to the consonant's being ...
الصفحة 17
... marks a striking singularity of what is called the cockney pro- nunciation , or the pronunciation of the common people of London ; so that the true sound of this letter seems to lie in the medium between these extremes . But first it ...
... marks a striking singularity of what is called the cockney pro- nunciation , or the pronunciation of the common people of London ; so that the true sound of this letter seems to lie in the medium between these extremes . But first it ...
الصفحة 40
... mark the sense of the sentence , but give it a variety and beauty which recommends it to the ear ; for in speak- ing , as in other arts , the useful and the agree- able are almost always found to coincide , and every real embellishment ...
... mark the sense of the sentence , but give it a variety and beauty which recommends it to the ear ; for in speak- ing , as in other arts , the useful and the agree- able are almost always found to coincide , and every real embellishment ...
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