Practical Elocution: Containing Illustrations of the Principles of Reading and Public Speaking. Also a Selection of the Best Pieces from Ancient and Modern Authors, Accompanied by Explanatory Notes. The Whole Adapted to the Purposes of Improvement in Reading and Oratory |
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... middle key , with slow time , and long quantity . Elocution requires that it be so read or recited as to call up all the internal feelings which anima- ted the author at the time he wrote it , in the minds of both reader and hearer ...
... middle key , with slow time , and long quantity . Elocution requires that it be so read or recited as to call up all the internal feelings which anima- ted the author at the time he wrote it , in the minds of both reader and hearer ...
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... key , and quick time . MILTON'S APOSTROPHE TO LIGHT . 1. Hail , holy light , offspring of Heaven first - born , Or ... middle darkness borne , With other 82 SELECT PIECES A Description of the Person of Jesus Christ The Blind Preacher do ...
... key , and quick time . MILTON'S APOSTROPHE TO LIGHT . 1. Hail , holy light , offspring of Heaven first - born , Or ... middle darkness borne , With other 82 SELECT PIECES A Description of the Person of Jesus Christ The Blind Preacher do ...
Page 87
... middle key , a combination of quantity and emphasis , and an earnest and animated manner . St. Paul was greatly distinguished for frankness . In 2 Corinthians , xii . 16 , he says : " But be it so , I did not burden you : nevertheless ...
... middle key , a combination of quantity and emphasis , and an earnest and animated manner . St. Paul was greatly distinguished for frankness . In 2 Corinthians , xii . 16 , he says : " But be it so , I did not burden you : nevertheless ...
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... middle key . DAVID'S LAMENTATION OVER SAUL AND JONATHAN . 1. The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places : how are the mighty fallen ! Tell it not in Gath , publish it not in the streets of Askelon ; lest the daughters of the Phi ...
... middle key . DAVID'S LAMENTATION OVER SAUL AND JONATHAN . 1. The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places : how are the mighty fallen ! Tell it not in Gath , publish it not in the streets of Askelon ; lest the daughters of the Phi ...
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... mid air : 13. So frowned the mighty combatants , that hell Grew darker at their frown : so match'd they stood ; For never but ... key , Risen , and with hideous outcry rush'd between . - Milton . In the above extract from " Paradise Lost ...
... mid air : 13. So frowned the mighty combatants , that hell Grew darker at their frown : so match'd they stood ; For never but ... key , Risen , and with hideous outcry rush'd between . - Milton . In the above extract from " Paradise Lost ...
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