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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... sense , and a cul- tivated taste , are the only requisites to form a good public speaker . But it is true in the art of speaking . as well as in the art of living . that general precepts are of little use till they are unfolded and ...
... sense , and a cul- tivated taste , are the only requisites to form a good public speaker . But it is true in the art of speaking . as well as in the art of living . that general precepts are of little use till they are unfolded and ...
Page vii
... sense and just speaking would require . Almost all persons , who have not studied the art of speaking , have a habit of uttering their words - so rapidly , that this latter exer- cise ought generally to be made use of for a conside ...
... sense and just speaking would require . Almost all persons , who have not studied the art of speaking , have a habit of uttering their words - so rapidly , that this latter exer- cise ought generally to be made use of for a conside ...
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... sense must always 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 ...
... sense must always 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 ...
Page xvi
... sense which requires the last sound to be ele vated or emphatical an easy fall , sufficient to shew that the sense is finished , will be .. proper And in pathetic pieces , especially those of the plaintive , tender , er solemn kind ...
... sense which requires the last sound to be ele vated or emphatical an easy fall , sufficient to shew that the sense is finished , will be .. proper And in pathetic pieces , especially those of the plaintive , tender , er solemn kind ...
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... Sense 9 On Study .. 10 On Satirical Wit .. 21. Hamlet's Instructions to Players Lord Chesterfield , 71 12. The present condition of Man vindicated 13. On the Order of Nature Pratt , 73 Bacon , 74 Sterne 75 Shakspeare , ¶ .. Pope , 18 ...
... Sense 9 On Study .. 10 On Satirical Wit .. 21. Hamlet's Instructions to Players Lord Chesterfield , 71 12. The present condition of Man vindicated 13. On the Order of Nature Pratt , 73 Bacon , 74 Sterne 75 Shakspeare , ¶ .. Pope , 18 ...
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