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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... voice . HE monotony fo much complained of in THE public speakers , is chiefly owing to the neg- lect of this rule . They generally content them- felves with one certain key , which they employ on all occafions , and on every fubject ...
... voice . HE monotony fo much complained of in THE public speakers , is chiefly owing to the neg- lect of this rule . They generally content them- felves with one certain key , which they employ on all occafions , and on every fubject ...
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... voice . But it is an effential qualification of a good fpeaker , to be able to alter the height , as well as the ftrength and the tone of his voice , as occafion requires . Different fpecies of speaking require different heights of voice ...
... voice . But it is an effential qualification of a good fpeaker , to be able to alter the height , as well as the ftrength and the tone of his voice , as occafion requires . Different fpecies of speaking require different heights of voice ...
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... voice , as is fcarcely to be ac- quired by any other method . Having repeated this experiment till you can speak with ease at feveral heights of the voice ; read , as exercises on this rule , fuch compofitions as have a variety of ...
... voice , as is fcarcely to be ac- quired by any other method . Having repeated this experiment till you can speak with ease at feveral heights of the voice ; read , as exercises on this rule , fuch compofitions as have a variety of ...
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... varia- tions to the voice , which nature requires : and it is for want of this previous ftudy , more perhaps than from any other caufe that we so often hear fo perfons perfons read with an improper emphasis , or with no xvi AN ESSAY ON.
... varia- tions to the voice , which nature requires : and it is for want of this previous ftudy , more perhaps than from any other caufe that we so often hear fo perfons perfons read with an improper emphasis , or with no xvi AN ESSAY ON.
Página xix
... voice , as far as they a- rife from , or are confiftent with juft speaking , are deferving of attention . But to fubstitute one un- meaning tune , in the room of all the proprieties and graces of good elocution , and then to applaud ...
... voice , as far as they a- rife from , or are confiftent with juft speaking , are deferving of attention . But to fubstitute one un- meaning tune , in the room of all the proprieties and graces of good elocution , and then to applaud ...
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