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, Also an Essay on Reading Works of Taste |
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Page ix
... fhall lay before my readers , in a plain didac- tic form , fuch Rules refpecting Elocution , as appear beft adapted to form a correct and graceful speaker . RULE I. " Let your Articulation be diftinct and deliberate . A GOOD ...
... fhall lay before my readers , in a plain didac- tic form , fuch Rules refpecting Elocution , as appear beft adapted to form a correct and graceful speaker . RULE I. " Let your Articulation be diftinct and deliberate . A GOOD ...
Page xii
... fhall be heard or not , depends more upon the diftin & tnefs and force with which he utters his words , than upon the height of the key in which he speaks . WITHIN a certain compass of notes , above or below which articulation would be ...
... fhall be heard or not , depends more upon the diftin & tnefs and force with which he utters his words , than upon the height of the key in which he speaks . WITHIN a certain compass of notes , above or below which articulation would be ...
Page xxv
... fhall therefore only lay down the following general precept : obferve the manner in which the feveral paffions and feelings are expreffed in real life ; and when you attempt to exprefs any paffion , infpire your- felf with that ...
... fhall therefore only lay down the following general precept : obferve the manner in which the feveral paffions and feelings are expreffed in real life ; and when you attempt to exprefs any paffion , infpire your- felf with that ...
Page 5
... fhall meet with more reproaches , than all his virtues , praife : fuch is the force of ill - will , and ill- nature . IT is harder to avoid cenfure than to gain applaufe ; for this may be done by one great or wife action in an age : but ...
... fhall meet with more reproaches , than all his virtues , praife : fuch is the force of ill - will , and ill- nature . IT is harder to avoid cenfure than to gain applaufe ; for this may be done by one great or wife action in an age : but ...
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... fhall fall by little and little . A RICH man beginning to fall is held up of his friends ; but a poor man being down is thruft away by his friends : when a rich man is fallen , he hath many helpers ; he speak- eth things not to be ...
... fhall fall by little and little . A RICH man beginning to fall is held up of his friends ; but a poor man being down is thruft away by his friends : when a rich man is fallen , he hath many helpers ; he speak- eth things not to be ...
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