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... Writer : And , indeed , it is al- lowed , these two Characters must enter into that of a compleat Orator . A Reader , however , need neither be a Writer nor an Actor , much lefs a finished Orator . By the Art of Reading , to which this ...
... Writer : And , indeed , it is al- lowed , these two Characters must enter into that of a compleat Orator . A Reader , however , need neither be a Writer nor an Actor , much lefs a finished Orator . By the Art of Reading , to which this ...
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... Writer his own ; which it is not the Business of a Reader to do . A Perfon may , by due Attention , become an excellent Reader , and yet have no other Qualification of an Actor whatever ; at the fame Time it is notorious , that some ...
... Writer his own ; which it is not the Business of a Reader to do . A Perfon may , by due Attention , become an excellent Reader , and yet have no other Qualification of an Actor whatever ; at the fame Time it is notorious , that some ...
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... Writer fuppofes . Is this altogether confiftent with Mr. Sheridan's re- ferring it to Time , and not to Tune ? Or with his two- fold Method of accenting Syllables , one of which confists in dwelling longer upon one Syllable than the ...
... Writer fuppofes . Is this altogether confiftent with Mr. Sheridan's re- ferring it to Time , and not to Tune ? Or with his two- fold Method of accenting Syllables , one of which confists in dwelling longer upon one Syllable than the ...
Contents
Obfervations on the Defects and Perfection | 1 |
The Analysis of SPEECH | 19 |
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