The Speaker: Or, Miscellaneous Pieces, Selected from the Best English Writers, and Disposed Under Proper Heads, with a View to Facilitate the Improvement of Youth in Reading and Speaking. To which is Prefixed an Essay on Elocution. By W. Enfield, ...A. Millar, W. Law, and R. Cater, 1794 - 405 pages |
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Page xxvi
... kind of reading , which has fo little merit confidered as mufic , and none at all confidered as fpeaking , fhould be so studioufly prac- tifed by many fpeakers , and fo much admired by many hearers . Can a method of reading , which is ...
... kind of reading , which has fo little merit confidered as mufic , and none at all confidered as fpeaking , fhould be so studioufly prac- tifed by many fpeakers , and fo much admired by many hearers . Can a method of reading , which is ...
Page xxviii
... be elevated or emphatical , an eafy fall , fufficient to fhew that the fenfe is finished , will be proper . And în pathetic pieces , efpecially thofe of the plaintive , tender , tender , or folemn kind , the tone of the Xxviii AN ESSAY ON.
... be elevated or emphatical , an eafy fall , fufficient to fhew that the fenfe is finished , will be proper . And în pathetic pieces , efpecially thofe of the plaintive , tender , tender , or folemn kind , the tone of the Xxviii AN ESSAY ON.
Page xxix
... kind , the tone of the paffion will often require a still lower cadence of the voice . But before a speaker can be able to fall his voice with pro- priety and judgment at the close of a sentence , he must be able to keep it from falling ...
... kind , the tone of the paffion will often require a still lower cadence of the voice . But before a speaker can be able to fall his voice with pro- priety and judgment at the close of a sentence , he must be able to keep it from falling ...
Page xxx
... kind of feeling ufually accompanies our words , and this , whatever it be , hath its proper external ex-- preffion . Expreffion hath indeed been fo little fta- died in public fpeaking , that we seem almost to have forgotten the language ...
... kind of feeling ufually accompanies our words , and this , whatever it be , hath its proper external ex-- preffion . Expreffion hath indeed been fo little fta- died in public fpeaking , that we seem almost to have forgotten the language ...
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... kind . SHINING characters are not always the most agreeable ones . The mild radiance of an emerald , is by no means lefs pleafing than the glare of the ruby . To be at once a rake , and to glory in the character , dif- covers at the ...
... kind . SHINING characters are not always the most agreeable ones . The mild radiance of an emerald , is by no means lefs pleafing than the glare of the ruby . To be at once a rake , and to glory in the character , dif- covers at the ...
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