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Page xvi
... These are the speakers , who , in Shak- fpeare's phrase , " offend the judicious hearer to the foul , by tearing a paffion to rags , to very tatters , to split the ears of the groundlings . " Cicero compares fuch speakers to cripples ...
... These are the speakers , who , in Shak- fpeare's phrase , " offend the judicious hearer to the foul , by tearing a paffion to rags , to very tatters , to split the ears of the groundlings . " Cicero compares fuch speakers to cripples ...
Page xxii
... these 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 ...
... these 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 ...
Page xxv
... these melodious fpeakers may no longer lie open to the farcasm ; Do you read , or fing ? if you fing , you fing very ill . It is much to be wondered at , that a kind b of of reading , which has fo little merit confidered as ELOCUTION . KXV.
... these melodious fpeakers may no longer lie open to the farcasm ; Do you read , or fing ? if you fing , you fing very ill . It is much to be wondered at , that a kind b of of reading , which has fo little merit confidered as ELOCUTION . KXV.
Page xxvii
... these refting - places has perhaps been one cause of monotony , by leading the reader to an uni- form cadence at every full period . The primary use of points is to affift the reader in difcerning the grammati- cal construction ; and it ...
... these refting - places has perhaps been one cause of monotony , by leading the reader to an uni- form cadence at every full period . The primary use of points is to affift the reader in difcerning the grammati- cal construction ; and it ...
Page xxxi
... these the general air and gesture naturally accord . The use of this language is not confined to the more vehement paffions . Upon every fubject and occafion on which we speak , fome kind of feeling accompanies the words ; and this ...
... these the general air and gesture naturally accord . The use of this language is not confined to the more vehement paffions . Upon every fubject and occafion on which we speak , fome kind of feeling accompanies the words ; and this ...
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