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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Page xii
... must de- ftroy all propriety and grace of utterance ; and to acquire a habit of reading , or fpeaking , upon every occafion , in a marner fuited to the nature of the subject , and the kind of discourse or writing to be delivered ...
... must de- ftroy all propriety and grace of utterance ; and to acquire a habit of reading , or fpeaking , upon every occafion , in a marner fuited to the nature of the subject , and the kind of discourse or writing to be delivered ...
Page xvii
... must have continual variations in the height of the voice . To acquire the power of changing the key on which you speak at pleasure , accuftom yourself to pitch your voice in different keys , from the lowest to the highest notes on ...
... must have continual variations in the height of the voice . To acquire the power of changing the key on which you speak at pleasure , accuftom yourself to pitch your voice in different keys , from the lowest to the highest notes on ...
Page xxii
... must be expreffed in reading , by a corre- fponding combination of emphases . The following inftances are of this kind : ANGER may glance into the breast of a wife man ; but refts only . in the bofom of fools . To err is human ; to ...
... must be expreffed in reading , by a corre- fponding combination of emphases . The following inftances are of this kind : ANGER may glance into the breast of a wife man ; but refts only . in the bofom of fools . To err is human ; to ...
Page xxvi
... must be loft , and the fenfe muft appear confused , and may even be mifreprefented in a manner moft abfurd and contradictory . There have been reciters , who have made Douglas fay to Lord Randolph * : We fought and conquer'd ere a sword ...
... must be loft , and the fenfe muft appear confused , and may even be mifreprefented in a manner moft abfurd and contradictory . There have been reciters , who have made Douglas fay to Lord Randolph * : We fought and conquer'd ere a sword ...
Page xxix
... must not be confounded with that fall of the voice , or cadence , with which many readers uniformly finish a sentence . Nothing can be more de- structive of all propriety and energy than this habit . The tones and heights at the close ...
... must not be confounded with that fall of the voice , or cadence , with which many readers uniformly finish a sentence . Nothing can be more de- structive of all propriety and energy than this habit . The tones and heights at the close ...
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