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
... must be mufical , let the words be fet to mufic in re- citative , that these melodious speakers may no longer lie ... must always appear confused and xxvi . AN ESSAY ON.
... must be mufical , let the words be fet to mufic in re- citative , that these melodious speakers may no longer lie ... must always appear confused and xxvi . AN ESSAY ON.
Page xxvii
... must always appear confused and obfcure , and often be misunderstood ; and the spirit and energy of the piece must be wholly loft . IN executing this part of the office of a speaker , it will by no means be fufficient to attend to the ...
... must always appear confused and obfcure , and often be misunderstood ; and the spirit and energy of the piece must be wholly loft . IN executing this part of the office of a speaker , it will by no means be fufficient to attend to the ...
Page xxix
... must be able to keep it from falling , and to raise it with all the variation which the fenfe requires . The beft method of correcting a uniform cadence , is fre- quently to read felect fentences , in which the ftyle is pointed , and ...
... must be able to keep it from falling , and to raise it with all the variation which the fenfe requires . The beft method of correcting a uniform cadence , is fre- quently to read felect fentences , in which the ftyle is pointed , and ...
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... , which excludes all fuperfluous formality . INGRATITUDE is a crime fo fhameful , that the man was never yet foud , who would acknowledge himfelf guilty of it . TRUTH TRUTH is born with us : and we must do SELECT SENTENCES . ( Book I.
... , which excludes all fuperfluous formality . INGRATITUDE is a crime fo fhameful , that the man was never yet foud , who would acknowledge himfelf guilty of it . TRUTH TRUTH is born with us : and we must do SELECT SENTENCES . ( Book I.
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... must do violence to nature , to shake off our veracity . THERE cannot be a greater treachery , than first to raise a confidence , and then deceive it . By others ' faults , wife men correct their own . No man hath a thorough tafte of ...
... must do violence to nature , to shake off our veracity . THERE cannot be a greater treachery , than first to raise a confidence , and then deceive it . By others ' faults , wife men correct their own . No man hath a thorough tafte of ...
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