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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Página xxi
... to follow , or enabling the speaker to alter the tone or height of the voice , fometimes to make a very confiderable pause , where the grammatical conftruction conftruction requires none at all . In doing this , ELOCUTION . xxi.
... to follow , or enabling the speaker to alter the tone or height of the voice , fometimes to make a very confiderable pause , where the grammatical conftruction conftruction requires none at all . In doing this , ELOCUTION . xxi.
Página xxii
... voice be kept up in fuch a manner as to intimate to the hearer that the fenfe is not compleated . Mr. GARRICK , often obferved this rule with great fuccefs . This particular excellence Mr. Sterne has de- scribed in his usual sprightly ...
... voice be kept up in fuch a manner as to intimate to the hearer that the fenfe is not compleated . Mr. GARRICK , often obferved this rule with great fuccefs . This particular excellence Mr. Sterne has de- scribed in his usual sprightly ...
Página xxiii
... voice . But before a speaker can be able to fall his voice with pro- priety and judgment at the clofe of a fentence , he must be able to keep it from falling , and to raise it with all the variation which the fenfe requires . The best ...
... voice . But before a speaker can be able to fall his voice with pro- priety and judgment at the clofe of a fentence , he must be able to keep it from falling , and to raise it with all the variation which the fenfe requires . The best ...
Página xxv
... voice , and just emphafis , he is able to add the various expreffions of emotion and paffion . To enumerate thefe expreffions , and defcribe them in all their variations is impracticable . Attempts have been made with some success to ...
... voice , and just emphafis , he is able to add the various expreffions of emotion and paffion . To enumerate thefe expreffions , and defcribe them in all their variations is impracticable . Attempts have been made with some success to ...
Página xxvi
... voice , emphasis , or cadence : and he should content himself with reading and fpeaking with an immediate view to the correct- ing of his fundamental faults , before he aims at any thing higher . This may be irksome and dif- agreeable ...
... voice , emphasis , or cadence : and he should content himself with reading and fpeaking with an immediate view to the correct- ing of his fundamental faults , before he aims at any thing higher . This may be irksome and dif- agreeable ...
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