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. By William Enfield ... A New Edition, Corrected ...J. Johnson, 1782 - 405 páginas |
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... to lay be- fore my readers , in a plain didactic form , fuch rules refpecting elocution , as appear beft adapt- ed to form a correct and graceful Speaker . RULE a 4 RULE I. Let your Articulation be diftinct and deliberate . ELOCUTION . vii.
... to lay be- fore my readers , in a plain didactic form , fuch rules refpecting elocution , as appear beft adapt- ed to form a correct and graceful Speaker . RULE a 4 RULE I. Let your Articulation be diftinct and deliberate . ELOCUTION . vii.
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... appear neither to understand or feel what they fay themselves , nor to have any defire that it should be understood or felt by their audi-- ence . This is a fundamental fault : a speaker without energy , is a lifelefs ftatue . In order ...
... appear neither to understand or feel what they fay themselves , nor to have any defire that it should be understood or felt by their audi-- ence . This is a fundamental fault : a speaker without energy , is a lifelefs ftatue . In order ...
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... appear intelligible and perfpicuous . But for this purpose it is necef- fary , that the reader should be perfectly acquaint- ed with the exact conftruction and full meaning of every sentence which he recites . Without this it is ...
... appear intelligible and perfpicuous . But for this purpose it is necef- fary , that the reader should be perfectly acquaint- ed with the exact conftruction and full meaning of every sentence which he recites . Without this it is ...
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... appear confufed and obfcure , and often be misunderstood ; and the spirit and energy of the piece must be wholly loft . In executing this part of the office of a speaker , it will by no means be fufficient to attend to the points used ...
... appear confufed and obfcure , and often be misunderstood ; and the spirit and energy of the piece must be wholly loft . In executing this part of the office of a speaker , it will by no means be fufficient to attend to the points used ...
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... appear new to them . It happens to men of learning , as to ears of corn ; they fhoot up , and raife their heads high , while they are empty ; but when full , and fwelled with grain , they begin to flag and droop . He that is truly ...
... appear new to them . It happens to men of learning , as to ears of corn ; they fhoot up , and raife their heads high , while they are empty ; but when full , and fwelled with grain , they begin to flag and droop . He that is truly ...
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