The Speaker; Or, Miscellaneous Pieces: Selected from the Very 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 ElocutionW. Borrowdale, 1808 - 412 páginas |
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... Whilft principals , ungrac'd like lacquies wait : In ways first trodden by himself excels , And ftands alone in indeclinables ; Conjunction , prepofition , adverb join To stamp new vigour B 8 ELOCUTION 17 On Verfification.
... Whilft principals , ungrac'd like lacquies wait : In ways first trodden by himself excels , And ftands alone in indeclinables ; Conjunction , prepofition , adverb join To stamp new vigour B 8 ELOCUTION 17 On Verfification.
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... himself in the ufe of the language . All endeavours , therefore , to make men Orators by describing to them in words the manner in which their voice , countenance , and hands are to be employed , in expreffing the passions , must in my ...
... himself in the ufe of the language . All endeavours , therefore , to make men Orators by describing to them in words the manner in which their voice , countenance , and hands are to be employed , in expreffing the passions , must in my ...
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... himself with reading and speaking with an immediate view to the correcting of his fundamental faults , before he aims at any thing higher . This may be irksome and difagreeable ; it may require much patience and refolu- tion ; but it is ...
... himself with reading and speaking with an immediate view to the correcting of his fundamental faults , before he aims at any thing higher . This may be irksome and difagreeable ; it may require much patience and refolu- tion ; but it is ...
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... himself , when he appears before the public , to confider the business he has to per- form in any other light , than as a trial of skill , and a difplay of oratory . Hence it is that the character of an orator has of late often been ...
... himself , when he appears before the public , to confider the business he has to per- form in any other light , than as a trial of skill , and a difplay of oratory . Hence it is that the character of an orator has of late often been ...
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... himself forth to public view under the character of a fpouter , and to parade it in the ears of the vulgar with all the pomp of artificial eloquence , though the unfkilful may gaze and applaud , the judicious cannot but be grieved and ...
... himself forth to public view under the character of a fpouter , and to parade it in the ears of the vulgar with all the pomp of artificial eloquence , though the unfkilful may gaze and applaud , the judicious cannot but be grieved and ...
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