The Art of Elocution, Or, Logical and Musical Reading and Declamation: With an Appendix, Containing a Copious Practice in Oratorical, Poetical, and Dramatic Reading and Recitation ; the Whole Forming a Complete Speaker, Well Adapted to Private Pupils, Classes, and the Use of Schools |
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... delivery cannot but be felt in se- curing the ready attention and favor of the audience . To him who desires to make a figure in the Pulpit , in the Senate , or at the Bar , a good delivery , a nervous and elegant style of Elocution ...
... delivery cannot but be felt in se- curing the ready attention and favor of the audience . To him who desires to make a figure in the Pulpit , in the Senate , or at the Bar , a good delivery , a nervous and elegant style of Elocution ...
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... delivery , as to the force of argument or the eloquence of diction . And how is this power and grace of delivery to be ac- quired ? -for acquired it must be - it is born with no man : it is indeed to this part of oratory that the maxim ...
... delivery , as to the force of argument or the eloquence of diction . And how is this power and grace of delivery to be ac- quired ? -for acquired it must be - it is born with no man : it is indeed to this part of oratory that the maxim ...
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... deliver it as if he were reporting another's sentiments , which were both fully understood and felt in all their force by the reporter . " Admitted ; this is the very object of Elocution : and how is it to be attained ? He tells us ...
... deliver it as if he were reporting another's sentiments , which were both fully understood and felt in all their force by the reporter . " Admitted ; this is the very object of Elocution : and how is it to be attained ? He tells us ...
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... deliver it with an utter absence of understand- ing and feeling . " And why ? Clearly for the want of a system , which by rules and principles of art shall render such a contradiction next to impossible . The right reverend and learned ...
... deliver it with an utter absence of understand- ing and feeling . " And why ? Clearly for the want of a system , which by rules and principles of art shall render such a contradiction next to impossible . The right reverend and learned ...
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... delivery ; and would , in the same degree , manifest an offensive affectation . " Now , the very object of a system of Elocution , such as the right reverend Doctor so strenuously condemns , is to give , by practice on just principles ...
... delivery ; and would , in the same degree , manifest an offensive affectation . " Now , the very object of a system of Elocution , such as the right reverend Doctor so strenuously condemns , is to give , by practice on just principles ...
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