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Page xiv
Follow Nature, is certainly the fundamental law of Oratory, without a regard to
which, all other rules will only produce affected declamation, not just elo- . cution.
And some accurate observers, judging perhaps, from a few unlucky specimens of
...
Follow Nature, is certainly the fundamental law of Oratory, without a regard to
which, all other rules will only produce affected declamation, not just elo- . cution.
And some accurate observers, judging perhaps, from a few unlucky specimens of
...
Page xv
What are rules or lessons for acquiring this or any other art, but the observations
of others, colle&ted into a narrow compass, and digested in a natural order, for
the direction of the unexperienced and unpračtised learner And what is there in ...
What are rules or lessons for acquiring this or any other art, but the observations
of others, colle&ted into a narrow compass, and digested in a natural order, for
the direction of the unexperienced and unpračtised learner And what is there in ...
Page xix
Different species of speaking require different heights of voice. Nature instructs
us to relate a story, to support an argument, to command a servant, to utter
exclamation of anger or rage, and to pour forth lamentations and sorrows, not
only with ...
Different species of speaking require different heights of voice. Nature instructs
us to relate a story, to support an argument, to command a servant, to utter
exclamation of anger or rage, and to pour forth lamentations and sorrows, not
only with ...
Page xxi
These faults, and all others of the same nature, must be correóted in the
pronunciation of a gentleman who is supposed to have seen too much of the
world, to retain the peculiarities of the distrićt in which he was born. B ; RULE
R U L E V.
These faults, and all others of the same nature, must be correóted in the
pronunciation of a gentleman who is supposed to have seen too much of the
world, to retain the peculiarities of the distrićt in which he was born. B ; RULE
R U L E V.
Page xxii
In accenting words, the general custom and a good ear are the best guides: only
it may be observed that accent should be regulated, not by any arbitrary rules of
quantity, but by the number and nature of the simple sounds. R U L E VI. In every
...
In accenting words, the general custom and a good ear are the best guides: only
it may be observed that accent should be regulated, not by any arbitrary rules of
quantity, but by the number and nature of the simple sounds. R U L E VI. In every
...
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| Title | 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, ... |
| Author | William Enfield |
| Publisher | A. Millar, W. Law, and R. Cater, 1794 |
| Original from | The British Library |
| Digitized | 23 Nov 2016 |
| Length | 405 pages |
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