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 ElocutionSimms&McIntyre, 1811 - 644 pages |
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Page vi
... proceed to lay before my readers , in a plain didactic form such rules respecting elocu- tion , as appear best adapted to form a correct and graceful speaker . RULE -0000- RULE 1 . Let your Articulation be distinct and vi AN ESSAY ON.
... proceed to lay before my readers , in a plain didactic form such rules respecting elocu- tion , as appear best adapted to form a correct and graceful speaker . RULE -0000- RULE 1 . Let your Articulation be distinct and vi AN ESSAY ON.
Page viii
... appear neither to understand or feel what they say them- selves , nor to have any desire that it should be un- derstood or felt by their audience . This is a fun- damental fault : a speaker without energy , is a life- less statue . In ...
... appear neither to understand or feel what they say them- selves , nor to have any desire that it should be un- derstood or felt by their audience . This is a fun- damental fault : a speaker without energy , is a life- less statue . In ...
Page xii
... appear intelligible and perspicuous . But for this purpose it is necessary , that the reader should be per- fectly acquainted with the exact construction and full meaning of every sentence which he recites . Without this it is ...
... appear intelligible and perspicuous . But for this purpose it is necessary , that the reader should be per- fectly acquainted with the exact construction and full meaning of every sentence which he recites . Without this it is ...
Page xv
... appear confused and . obscure , and often be misunderstood ; and the spirit and energy of the piece must be wholly lost . } In executing this part of the office of a speaker , it will by no means be sufficient to attend to the points ...
... appear confused and . obscure , and often be misunderstood ; and the spirit and energy of the piece must be wholly lost . } In executing this part of the office of a speaker , it will by no means be sufficient to attend to the points ...
Page xix
... private , canno : easily persuade himself , when he appears before the public , B 3 3 to * See Dean Swift's advice on this head , in his Letter to a young Clergyman . T to consider the business he has to perform in any ELOCUTION . xix.
... private , canno : easily persuade himself , when he appears before the public , B 3 3 to * See Dean Swift's advice on this head , in his Letter to a young Clergyman . T to consider the business he has to perform in any ELOCUTION . xix.
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