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Page 36
... Round " or labialized variety ; so that the Alphabet of Visible Speech contains thirty - six simple vowels . The number is extended by diacritic signs to no fewer than One Hundred and Eighty possible shades of vowel quality for which a ...
... Round " or labialized variety ; so that the Alphabet of Visible Speech contains thirty - six simple vowels . The number is extended by diacritic signs to no fewer than One Hundred and Eighty possible shades of vowel quality for which a ...
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... Round " vowel of Visible Speech . 96. Vowel 10 nearly as 6 ; as in all , want , thought , honest , law , & c . The sound is the " Low Mixed Wide Round " vowel of Visible Speech . 97. Vowel 12 , as a monophthong , ( see par . 65. ) 98 ...
... Round " vowel of Visible Speech . 96. Vowel 10 nearly as 6 ; as in all , want , thought , honest , law , & c . The sound is the " Low Mixed Wide Round " vowel of Visible Speech . 97. Vowel 12 , as a monophthong , ( see par . 65. ) 98 ...
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... round the lobby . Don't run along the wrong labyrinth . His right leg lagged in the race . Don't run a- long the lane in the rain . Lucy likes light literature . Let me recollect a little . A little tittle . A little ninny . A little ...
... round the lobby . Don't run along the wrong labyrinth . His right leg lagged in the race . Don't run a- long the lane in the rain . Lucy likes light literature . Let me recollect a little . A little tittle . A little ninny . A little ...
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... rounded transitions of natural inflexion . The following summary of the expressiveness of the various vocal movements will assist in giving to the exercises that quality of conversational effect which is , above all , to be cultivated ...
... rounded transitions of natural inflexion . The following summary of the expressiveness of the various vocal movements will assist in giving to the exercises that quality of conversational effect which is , above all , to be cultivated ...
Page 88
... round about - With clouds - steeped in the rainbow's richest dyes ; So fair , - so full of light - and living glory , - That with the ancient Persian , - one - might deem Him - god- of all - he looks upon below.— His setting- ushers in ...
... round about - With clouds - steeped in the rainbow's richest dyes ; So fair , - so full of light - and living glory , - That with the ancient Persian , - one - might deem Him - god- of all - he looks upon below.— His setting- ushers in ...
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accented syllable action adverbs antithesis articulation assertive body brave breath Brutus Cæsar Christian clause dead death denoted Diphthong doth earth effect Elocution emphasis emphatic exercise expressive fear feel fool force gesture give glottis grammatical grief hand happy hath heart heaven honour house of York idea imitative implied interrogative king labial larynx letters light lingual lips look marked mind mode modulation monophthong motion motley fool mouth nature never night notation noun o'er P. J. Bailey passion pauses phatic pitch poor predicate principle pronounced pronunciation rising sense sentence separate Shakespeare smile soft palate sorrow soul speak speaker spirit subordinate syllable tears tence thee thine things thou thought tion tones tongue unaccented unemphatic utterance verb Visible Speech vocal voice vowel sound W. E. Aytoun weep wind words wretched
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Page 190 - Let's choose executors, and talk of wills : And yet not so, — for what can we bequeath, Save our deposed bodies to the ground ? Our lands, our lives, and all are Bolingbroke's, And nothing can we call our own, but death; And that small model of the barren earth, Which serves as paste and cover to our bones.
Page 180 - Let's dry our eyes: and thus far hear me, Cromwell; And, when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And sleep in dull cold marble, where no mention Of me more must be heard of, say, I taught thee...
Page 190 - All murder'd ; for within the hollow crown, That rounds the mortal temples of a king, Keeps Death his court, and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp...
Page 189 - It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes : 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest ; it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown ; His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings ; But mercy is above this sceptred sway, It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God's When mercy seasons justice.
Page 196 - In the corrupted currents of this world Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice; And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law...
Page 149 - Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him ; But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him ! But half of our heavy task was done When the clock struck the hour for retiring, And we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was sullenly firing.
Page 125 - He who ascends to mountain-tops, shall find The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds and snow ; He who surpasses or subdues mankind, Must look down on the hate of those below. Though high above the sun of glory glow, And far beneath the earth and ocean spread, Round him are icy rocks, and loudly blow Contending tempests on his naked head, And thus reward the toils which to those summits led.
Page 222 - O, young Lochinvar is come out of the west, Through all the wide Border his steed was the best ; And save his good broad-sword he weapon had none, He rode all unarmed, and he rode all alone. So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war, There never was knight like the young Lochinvar.
Page 146 - By the struggling moonbeam's misty light And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet nor in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him.
Page 166 - Remember March, the ides of March remember : Did not great Julius bleed for justice sake ? What villain touch'd his body, that did stab, And not for justice ? What ! shall one of us, That struck the foremost man of all this world But for supporting robbers, shall we now...