 | John Walker - 1804 - 330 pages
...voice downwards. This inflexion seems generally to be used in ironical reproach ; as on the word ye« in the following example : " So then you are the author...these inflexions we add the distinction of a phrase inte accentual portions, as Prosperity | gains friends [ and adversity | tries them, | and pronounce... | |
 | John Walker - 1830 - 200 pages
...CloJius ; all our V other calamities were tolerable, but no one can patiently bear the death of Clodius." The falling circumflex begins with the rising inflexion,...mischief that has befallen me." If to these inflexions \ve add the distinction of a phrase into accentual portions, as Prosperity | gains friends | and adversity... | |
 | John Walker, William Trollope - 1833 - 194 pages
...in ironical reproach : as on the word you in the following example : " So then you are the autho • of this conspiracy against me ? It is to you that...portions, as Prosperity | gains friends | and adversity | tr)2s them and pronounce friends like an unaccented syllable of gains; and like an unaccented syllable... | |
 | Rev. Samuel Wood - 1833 - 224 pages
...circumflex to express bitter reproach. /-> So then you are the author of this conspiracy against t~\ me. It is to you that I am indebted for all the mischief that has befallen me. One or other of the circumflexes is very commonly used when a speaker takes up his own words and puts... | |
 | Hugh Doherty - 1841 - 254 pages
...INFLECTIONS, and the circumflex and half-circumflex inflections, IMPRESSIVE INFLECTIONS. Examples. So then you are the author of this conspiracy against...is to you that I am indebted for all the mischief which has befallen me. ^•^ .-^ Brave peers of England! pillars of the State! To you Duke Humphry... | |
 | Alexander Melville Bell - 1849 - 356 pages
...which finishes the inflexion adds to this an expression of positiveness and conviction. Thus : — " So, then, you are the author of this conspiracy against me ? It is to you I am indebted for all the mischief that has befallenme." APPLICATION OF THE INFLEXIONS. Governing the... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - 1850 - 292 pages
...passion, avarice, and pride ! 354. Most courteous tyrants! Romans! rare patterns of humanity ! 355. So, then, you are the author of this conspiracy against me ? It is to ydu, then, that I am indebted for all the mischief that has befallen me. 356. I kn&w you, sir — I... | |
 | William Draper Swan - 1851 - 442 pages
...requires the tones of mockery, sarcasm, or irony, the circumflex should be used ; as, So, then, ydu are the author of this conspiracy against me ? It...indebted for all the mischief that has befallen me. Madam, you have my father much offended. RULE XI. In solemn and sublime passages, the monotone should... | |
 | Charles John Plumptre - 1870 - 236 pages
...scorn, contempt, innuendo, or retort, should have the emphatic circumflex on the important words. " So, then, you are the author of this conspiracy against...is to you that I am indebted for all the mischief which has befallen me." The foregoing seem to me the chief rules for the use of those peculiar swelling... | |
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The falling circumflex begins with the rising inflexion, and ends with the falling upon the same syllable, and seems to •twist the voice downwards. This inflexion seems generally to be used in ironical reproach ; as on the word you in the following... 