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 |
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Page vi
... eafy method by which this accomplishment may be acquired . FOLLOW NATURE , is certainly the fundamental law of Oratory , without a regard to which , all o- ther rules will only produce affected declamation , not juft elocution . And ...
... eafy method by which this accomplishment may be acquired . FOLLOW NATURE , is certainly the fundamental law of Oratory , without a regard to which , all o- ther rules will only produce affected declamation , not juft elocution . And ...
Page xiv
... eafy to fix upon any standard , by which the propriety of pronunciation is to be determined . Mere men of learning , in at- tempting to make the etymology of words the rule of pronunciation , often pronounce words in a manner , which ...
... eafy to fix upon any standard , by which the propriety of pronunciation is to be determined . Mere men of learning , in at- tempting to make the etymology of words the rule of pronunciation , often pronounce words in a manner , which ...
Page xix
... eafy variations of the voice , as far as they a- rife from , or are confiftent with juft fpeaking , are deferving of attention . But to fubftitute one un- meaning tune , in the room of all the proprieties and graces of good elocution ...
... eafy variations of the voice , as far as they a- rife from , or are confiftent with juft fpeaking , are deferving of attention . But to fubftitute one un- meaning tune , in the room of all the proprieties and graces of good elocution ...
Page xxiii
... eafy fall , fufficient to fhow that the fenfe is finished , will be proper . And in pathetic pieces , efpe- cially thofe of the plaintive , tender , or folemn kind , the tone of the paffion will often require a ftill lower cadence of ...
... eafy fall , fufficient to fhow that the fenfe is finished , will be proper . And in pathetic pieces , efpe- cially thofe of the plaintive , tender , or folemn kind , the tone of the paffion will often require a ftill lower cadence of ...
Page xxvi
... eafy , and proceeding by flow steps to fuch as are more difficult . In the choice of thefe , the prac- titioner should pay a particular attention to his prevailing defects , whether they regard articu- lation , command of voice ...
... eafy , and proceeding by flow steps to fuch as are more difficult . In the choice of thefe , the prac- titioner should pay a particular attention to his prevailing defects , whether they regard articu- lation , command of voice ...
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