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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... voice . Different kinds of speaking require different heights of voice . Nature inftructs us to relate a ftory , to fupport an argument , to command a fervant , to utter exclamations of anger or rage , and to pour forth lamentations and ...
... voice . Different kinds of speaking require different heights of voice . Nature inftructs us to relate a ftory , to fupport an argument , to command a fervant , to utter exclamations of anger or rage , and to pour forth lamentations and ...
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... voice . " To acquire the power of changing the key on which you speak at pleasure , accuftom yourself to pitch your voice in different keys , from the lowest to the highest notes on which you can articulate diftinétly . Many of thefe ...
... voice . " To acquire the power of changing the key on which you speak at pleasure , accuftom yourself to pitch your voice in different keys , from the lowest to the highest notes on which you can articulate diftinétly . Many of thefe ...
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... voice , which nature requires ; and it is for want of this previous ftudy , more perhaps than from any other caufe , that we fo often hear perfons read with an improper emphasis , or with no emphafis at all , that is , with a ftupid ...
... voice , which nature requires ; and it is for want of this previous ftudy , more perhaps than from any other caufe , that we fo often hear perfons read with an improper emphasis , or with no emphafis at all , that is , with a ftupid ...
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... voice , as far as they arife from , or are confiftent with just speaking , may deferve attention . But to fubflitute one unmeaning tune in the room of all the proprieties and graces of elo- cution , and then to applaud this manner under ...
... voice , as far as they arife from , or are confiftent with just speaking , may deferve attention . But to fubflitute one unmeaning tune in the room of all the proprieties and graces of elo- cution , and then to applaud this manner under ...
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... voice , but in order to give the hearer a diftinct perception of the conftruction and meaning of each fentence , and a clear understanding of the whole . An uninterrupted rapidity of utterance is one of the worst faults in elocution . A ...
... voice , but in order to give the hearer a diftinct perception of the conftruction and meaning of each fentence , and a clear understanding of the whole . An uninterrupted rapidity of utterance is one of the worst faults in elocution . A ...
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