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 SpeakingJ. Johnson, 1805 - 396 страници |
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... FOLLOW NATURE , is certainly the fundamental law of Oratory , without regard to which , all other rules will only produce affected declamation , not just elocution . And fome accurate obfervers , judging , perhaps , from a few unlucky ...
... FOLLOW NATURE , is certainly the fundamental law of Oratory , without regard to which , all other rules will only produce affected declamation , not just elocution . And fome accurate obfervers , judging , perhaps , from a few unlucky ...
Страница xi
... follow in their proper places . RULE II . Let your Pronunciation be bold and forcible . AN infipid flatnefs and languor is almoft a univerfal fault in reading . Even public fpeakers often fuffer their words to drop from their lips with ...
... follow in their proper places . RULE II . Let your Pronunciation be bold and forcible . AN infipid flatnefs and languor is almoft a univerfal fault in reading . Even public fpeakers often fuffer their words to drop from their lips with ...
Страница xviii
... trial , that , except where they may be neceffary as a guide to the fenfe , not leaving the reader at full liberty to follow his own awn understanding and feelings , they rather mislead than affift xviii ESSAY ON ESSAY on Elocution.
... trial , that , except where they may be neceffary as a guide to the fenfe , not leaving the reader at full liberty to follow his own awn understanding and feelings , they rather mislead than affift xviii ESSAY ON ESSAY on Elocution.
Страница xxi
... follow , or enabling the fpeaker to alter the tone or height of the voice , fometimes to make a very confiderable paufe , where the grammatical conftruction requires none at all . In doing this , however , it is neceffary that , upon ...
... follow , or enabling the fpeaker to alter the tone or height of the voice , fometimes to make a very confiderable paufe , where the grammatical conftruction requires none at all . In doing this , however , it is neceffary that , upon ...
Страница xxii
... follows . For example : Finally , brethren , whatfoever things are true , whatsoever things are honeft , whatsoever things are juft , whatsoever things are pure , whatsoever things are lovely , whatfoever things are of good report ; if ...
... follows . For example : Finally , brethren , whatfoever things are true , whatsoever things are honeft , whatsoever things are juft , whatsoever things are pure , whatsoever things are lovely , whatfoever things are of good report ; if ...
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