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 Tastebooksellers, 1801 - 300 páginas |
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... nature , and as far as they prevail muft deftroy all propriety and grace of utterance ; and to acquire a habit of reading , or fpeaking , upon every occafion , in a manner fuited to the nature of the fubject , and the kind of discourse ...
... nature , and as far as they prevail muft deftroy all propriety and grace of utterance ; and to acquire a habit of reading , or fpeaking , upon every occafion , in a manner fuited to the nature of the fubject , and the kind of discourse ...
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... nature directs . " IN the fame compofition there may be frequent occa fion to alter the height of the voice , in paffing from one part to another , without any change of perfon . This is the cafe , for example , in Shakespeare's " All ...
... nature directs . " IN the fame compofition there may be frequent occa fion to alter the height of the voice , in paffing from one part to another , without any change of perfon . This is the cafe , for example , in Shakespeare's " All ...
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... nature , must be avoided in the pronunciation of a gentle- man , who is fuppofed to have seen too much of the world , to retain the peculiarities of the diftrict in which he was born . Pronounce every 4 RULE . V. * word confifting of ...
... nature , must be avoided in the pronunciation of a gentle- man , who is fuppofed to have seen too much of the world , to retain the peculiarities of the diftrict in which he was born . Pronounce every 4 RULE . V. * word confifting of ...
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... nature ; for Accent implies not an extenfion of time , but an increase of force . In the words , pity , enemy , the firft fyllables , though accented , are ftill fhort , fyllables may be long , which are not accented ; as appears in the ...
... nature ; for Accent implies not an extenfion of time , but an increase of force . In the words , pity , enemy , the firft fyllables , though accented , are ftill fhort , fyllables may be long , which are not accented ; as appears in the ...
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... natural , forcible , and varied EMPHASIS . THERE are in every fentence certain words , which have a greater share in ... nature requires ; and it is for want of this previous ftudy , more perhaps than from any other caufe , that we fo ...
... natural , forcible , and varied EMPHASIS . THERE are in every fentence certain words , which have a greater share in ... nature requires ; and it is for want of this previous ftudy , more perhaps than from any other caufe , that we fo ...
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