"Unaccented" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... return is simply a relaxation or a subsidence, and belongs, therefore, to the department of rest. Discourse itself, it will be observed, has its pauses, seasons of repose thickly interspersed in the action of speech; and besides these has its accented and unaccented syllables, emphatic and unemphatic words,—illustrating thus in itself the law which it here affirms. History is full of the same thing; the tides of faith and feeling now ascend and now subside, through all the ages, in ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 7, No. 43, May, 1861 • Various
... In listening to a clock it is impossible to think of the ticks singly, or otherwise than in groups of two: an accented beat and an unaccented; although the beats are of equal strength and duration. This principle of dual balance is derived from the rhythmic pulsation of the human heart and, as we shall see, runs through ...
— Music: An Art and a Language • Walter Raymond Spalding
... an unaccented voice from the little light—the light said to be the impersonation of Pierce; indeed, it was of kindred with the shadow in that singular romance by Hawthorn, called the life of Pierce! And the voice said:—'I ...
— The Adventures of My Cousin Smooth • Timothy Templeton
... in music consists of a regularly recurring series of accented sounds, unaccented sounds, and rests, expressed in rhythmic gymnastics by movements and inhibitions of movements. Individuals who are rhythmically uncertain generally have a muscular system which is irregularly responsive to mental stimuli; the response may be too rapid or too slow; in either case ...
— The Eurhythmics of Jaques-Dalcroze • Emile Jaques-Dalcroze
... common faults in Articulation. Omitting an unaccented vocal, dropping the final sound, sounding incorrectly an unaccented vowel, and ...
— 1001 Questions and Answers on Orthography and Reading • B. A. Hathaway |
