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 Taste |
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Acquire compass and variety in the height of your voice . The 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 ...
Acquire compass and variety in the height of your voice . The 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 ...
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Within a certain compass of notes , ahove or below which articulation would be difficult , propriety of speaking requires variety in the height , as well as in the strength and tone of the voice . Different kinds of speaking require ...
Within a certain compass of notes , ahove or below which articulation would be difficult , propriety of speaking requires variety in the height , as well as in the strength and tone of the voice . Different kinds of speaking require ...
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Without this , it is impossible to give those inflections and variations to the voice , which Nature requires ; and it is for want of this previous study , inore perhaps than from any other cause , that we so oftev bear persons read ...
Without this , it is impossible to give those inflections and variations to the voice , which Nature requires ; and it is for want of this previous study , inore perhaps than from any other cause , that we so oftev bear persons read ...
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... or affectation , than of real taste ; but , to whatever cause it may be ascribed , it is certainly unfavourable to true oratory : Agreeable inflections and easy variations of the voice , as far as they arise from , or are consistent ...
... or affectation , than of real taste ; but , to whatever cause it may be ascribed , it is certainly unfavourable to true oratory : Agreeable inflections and easy variations of the voice , as far as they arise from , or are consistent ...
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In doing this , however , it is necessary , that , upon the word immediately preceding the pause , the voice be suspended in such a manner as to intimate to the hearer , that the sense is not completed . The power of suspending the ...
In doing this , however , it is necessary , that , upon the word immediately preceding the pause , the voice be suspended in such a manner as to intimate to the hearer , that the sense is not completed . The power of suspending the ...
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