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 |
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... such a faint and feeble utterance , that they appear , neither to understand or feel what they fay themfelves , nor to have any defire that it fhould be understood or felt by their audience . This is a fundamental fault : a fpeaker ...
... such a faint and feeble utterance , that they appear , neither to understand or feel what they fay themfelves , nor to have any defire that it fhould be understood or felt by their audience . This is a fundamental fault : a fpeaker ...
Page xvii
... such as relate dialogues ; obferving the height of voice which is proper to each , and endeavour- ing to change them as nature directs . IN but an unmeaning fucceffion of detached fyllables . Accent may ELOCUTION . xvii HARANGUES.
... such as relate dialogues ; obferving the height of voice which is proper to each , and endeavour- ing to change them as nature directs . IN but an unmeaning fucceffion of detached fyllables . Accent may ELOCUTION . xvii HARANGUES.
Page xxvii
... such a manner as to intimate to the hearer that the fenfe is not completed . The power of suspending the voice at pleasure , is one of the most useful attainments in the art of speaking : it enables the fpeaker to pause as long as he ...
... such a manner as to intimate to the hearer that the fenfe is not completed . The power of suspending the voice at pleasure , is one of the most useful attainments in the art of speaking : it enables the fpeaker to pause as long as he ...
Page liv
... such as are established by good authority ; that words be used in the fense which is commonly annexed to them , and that all heterogeneous mixtures of foreign or antiquated words be avoided . In the prefent ftate of modern languages ...
... such as are established by good authority ; that words be used in the fense which is commonly annexed to them , and that all heterogeneous mixtures of foreign or antiquated words be avoided . In the prefent ftate of modern languages ...
Page lvi
... such as Swift , Addifon , and Middleton , who difdained to confine their conceptions within the narrow inclosure of fuch ar- bitrary rules , took all the scope , in the structure of their periods , which the extent and concatenation of ...
... such as Swift , Addifon , and Middleton , who difdained to confine their conceptions within the narrow inclosure of fuch ar- bitrary rules , took all the scope , in the structure of their periods , which the extent and concatenation of ...
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