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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... passage , is to fix the mind earnestly on the mearing , and leave nature and habit to suggest the utterance : and for this plan " he lays claim to some originality of his own " ( Part IV . c . i , §1 ) ; though he says , ( c . ii ...
... passage , is to fix the mind earnestly on the mearing , and leave nature and habit to suggest the utterance : and for this plan " he lays claim to some originality of his own " ( Part IV . c . i , §1 ) ; though he says , ( c . ii ...
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... 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 emphasis was laid on the ...
... 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 emphasis was laid on the ...
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... passage from the same preface is a di- rect answer to the right reverend Doctor's own objections to an artificial system of Elocution : " It has usually been assumed , however , in the case of the present subject , that a theory which ...
... passage from the same preface is a di- rect answer to the right reverend Doctor's own objections to an artificial system of Elocution : " It has usually been assumed , however , in the case of the present subject , that a theory which ...
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... guilty of such a series of follies ; in which every species of absurdity was accompanied by a specious gravity , which rendered it infinitely amusing , In this passage , unless the syllables ies and ious 44 ART OF ELOCUTION .
... guilty of such a series of follies ; in which every species of absurdity was accompanied by a specious gravity , which rendered it infinitely amusing , In this passage , unless the syllables ies and ious 44 ART OF ELOCUTION .
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... passage , unless the syllables ies and ious be correctly distinguished by the reader , in the words serious and series , species and specious , it must be quite evident that confusion and uncertainty will re- sult to the hearer . 2. The ...
... passage , unless the syllables ies and ious be correctly distinguished by the reader , in the words serious and series , species and specious , it must be quite evident that confusion and uncertainty will re- sult to the hearer . 2. The ...
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