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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... language , and correct manner of reading and speaking , we would warmly recommend this work . " - Crystal Fount . " The directions in Mr. Vandenhoff's book are so simple , so easy of comprehension , and may be so readily practised ...
... language , and correct manner of reading and speaking , we would warmly recommend this work . " - Crystal Fount . " The directions in Mr. Vandenhoff's book are so simple , so easy of comprehension , and may be so readily practised ...
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... language ; and gladly takes this opportunity of offering his humble tribute to the masterly analysis of the voice , its functions and capabilities , contain- ed in that philosophical and eloquent work . He takes this occasion also to ...
... language ; and gladly takes this opportunity of offering his humble tribute to the masterly analysis of the voice , its functions and capabilities , contain- ed in that philosophical and eloquent work . He takes this occasion also to ...
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... language of its prose writers and poets , cannot be too assiduously cultivated by a lady : the accomplishment is peculiarly feminine , and its possession is a distinctive mark of high breeding and good education . If the Author's ...
... language of its prose writers and poets , cannot be too assiduously cultivated by a lady : the accomplishment is peculiarly feminine , and its possession is a distinctive mark of high breeding and good education . If the Author's ...
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... language , up to the highest expression of which the human voice is capa- ble in speech . Of the importance , if not ... language as its grammatical accuracy . And though any language , however meagre and however mean , and any utterance ...
... language , up to the highest expression of which the human voice is capa- ble in speech . Of the importance , if not ... language as its grammatical accuracy . And though any language , however meagre and however mean , and any utterance ...
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... language . How many a good story is marred in the telling : how many a good sermon is lost in the preaching : how many a good speech , excellent in matter , argument , arrangement , language , falls listless on the ear , from the ...
... language . How many a good story is marred in the telling : how many a good sermon is lost in the preaching : how many a good speech , excellent in matter , argument , arrangement , language , falls listless on the ear , from the ...
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