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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... give you a false style ; but read and speak naturally , as if you understood and felt what you are reading and speaking ; nature and habit will show you how ; though , at the same time , however clearly you may understand , and however ...
... give you a false style ; but read and speak naturally , as if you understood and felt what you are reading and speaking ; nature and habit will show you how ; though , at the same time , however clearly you may understand , and however ...
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... gives the following passage , ( Mark , iv . , 21 ) : " Is a candle brought to be put under a bushel or under a bed ? " And he adds , " I have heard this so pro- nounced as to imply that there was no other alternative , and yet the ...
... gives the following passage , ( Mark , iv . , 21 ) : " Is a candle brought to be put under a bushel or under a bed ? " And he adds , " I have heard this so pro- nounced as to imply that there was no other alternative , and yet the ...
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... give , by practice on just principles , an habitual power of vocal intonation , inflection , and expression , suited to every condition of sense , every style of composition , every variety of feeling , every vicissitude of passion ...
... give , by practice on just principles , an habitual power of vocal intonation , inflection , and expression , suited to every condition of sense , every style of composition , every variety of feeling , every vicissitude of passion ...
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... give the coup de grace to his own position . ) " Now , by common sense is meant , I apprehend , ( when the term is used with any distinct meaning , ) an exercise of the judgment unaided by any art or system of rules ; such an exercise ...
... give the coup de grace to his own position . ) " Now , by common sense is meant , I apprehend , ( when the term is used with any distinct meaning , ) an exercise of the judgment unaided by any art or system of rules ; such an exercise ...
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... gives the preference to unassisted common sense only in those cases where he himself has nothing else to trust to , and invariably resorts to the rules of art wher- ever he possesses the knowledge of them , it is plain that man- kind ...
... gives the preference to unassisted common sense only in those cases where he himself has nothing else to trust to , and invariably resorts to the rules of art wher- ever he possesses the knowledge of them , it is plain that man- kind ...
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