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 are Prefixed Two Essays, I. On Elocution, II. On Reading Works of TasteF.C. and J. Rivington, 1815 - 346 páginas |
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... voice . TH HE monotony so much complained of in public speakers is chiefly owing to the neglect of this rule . They commonly content themselves with one certain key , which they employ on all occasions , and upon every subject : or if ...
... voice . TH HE monotony so much complained of in public speakers is chiefly owing to the neglect of this rule . They commonly content themselves with one certain key , which they employ on all occasions , and upon every subject : or if ...
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... voice . Different kinds of speaking require different heights of voice . Nature instructs us to relate a story , to support an argument , to command a servant , to utter excla- mations of rage or anger , and to pour forth lamentations ...
... voice . Different kinds of speaking require different heights of voice . Nature instructs us to relate a story , to support an argument , to command a servant , to utter excla- mations of rage or anger , and to pour forth lamentations ...
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... voice , which Nature requires ; and it is for want of this previous study , more perhaps than from any other cause , that we so often hear persons read with an improper emphasis , or with no emphasis at all ; that is , with a stupid ...
... voice , which Nature requires ; and it is for want of this previous study , more perhaps than from any other cause , that we so often hear persons read with an improper emphasis , or with no emphasis at all ; that is , with a stupid ...
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... voice , as far as they arise from , or are consistent with , just speaking , may deserve attention . But to substitute one unmeaning tune in the room of all the proprieties and graces of elocution , and then to applaud this manner under ...
... voice , as far as they arise from , or are consistent with , just speaking , may deserve attention . But to substitute one unmeaning tune in the room of all the proprieties and graces of elocution , and then to applaud this manner under ...
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... voice be sus- pended in such a manner as to intimate to the hearer , that the sense is not completed . The power of suspending the voice at pleasure is one of the most useful attainments in the art of speaking : it enables the ...
... voice be sus- pended in such a manner as to intimate to the hearer , that the sense is not completed . The power of suspending the voice at pleasure is one of the most useful attainments in the art of speaking : it enables the ...
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