The Speaker Or Miscellaneous Pieces Selected from the Best English Writers: Essay on Elocution and Directions for ReadingF. Louis, 1804 - 376 pages |
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... Heads , with a view to facilitate the improvement of YOUTH , IN READING AND SPEAKING . TO WICH IS PREFIXED AN ESSAY ON ELOCUTION and DIRECTIONS FOR READING . By W. ENFIELD , LL . D. -Oculos , paulum tellure moratos , Sustulit ad ...
... Heads , with a view to facilitate the improvement of YOUTH , IN READING AND SPEAKING . TO WICH IS PREFIXED AN ESSAY ON ELOCUTION and DIRECTIONS FOR READING . By W. ENFIELD , LL . D. -Oculos , paulum tellure moratos , Sustulit ad ...
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... head , is this general one : Observe in what manner the several emotions or passions are ex- pressed in real life , or by those who have with . great labour and taste acquired a power of imi- tating nature ; and accustom yourself either ...
... head , is this general one : Observe in what manner the several emotions or passions are ex- pressed in real life , or by those who have with . great labour and taste acquired a power of imi- tating nature ; and accustom yourself either ...
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... head which reading requires , are inconsistent with the freedom , ease , and va- riety of just elocution . But if this is too much to be expected , especially from Preachers , who have so much to compose , and are so often call- ed upon ...
... head which reading requires , are inconsistent with the freedom , ease , and va- riety of just elocution . But if this is too much to be expected , especially from Preachers , who have so much to compose , and are so often call- ed upon ...
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... and to parade it in the ears of the vulgar with all the pomp of artificial elo- * See Dean Swift's advice on this head , in his Letter to a young Clergyman . quence ; though the unskilful may gaze and ap- plaud ESSAY ON ELOCUTION . xxj.
... and to parade it in the ears of the vulgar with all the pomp of artificial elo- * See Dean Swift's advice on this head , in his Letter to a young Clergyman . quence ; though the unskilful may gaze and ap- plaud ESSAY ON ELOCUTION . xxj.
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... heads high , while they are empty ; but when full and swelled with grain , they begin to flag and droop . He who is truly polite , knows how to con- tradict with respect , and to please without adu- lation ; and is equally remote from ...
... heads high , while they are empty ; but when full and swelled with grain , they begin to flag and droop . He who is truly polite , knows how to con- tradict with respect , and to please without adu- lation ; and is equally remote from ...
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