The Practice of Elocution, Or A Course of Exercises for Acquiring the Several Requisites of a Good DeliveryJ. Richardson, 1826 - 213 pages |
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... pupil finds a conve- nience in it , and even a bright one , whose mind is awake to the business of the page , is unable to break through the habit which has been gradually fixing itself , promoted as it is by the contagion of example ...
... pupil finds a conve- nience in it , and even a bright one , whose mind is awake to the business of the page , is unable to break through the habit which has been gradually fixing itself , promoted as it is by the contagion of example ...
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... pupil the stores of other minds the master spirits of our species and make him think and feel as they have thought and felt : and the best proof he can give of the reality of every impression , is the delivery of their language with the ...
... pupil the stores of other minds the master spirits of our species and make him think and feel as they have thought and felt : and the best proof he can give of the reality of every impression , is the delivery of their language with the ...
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... It is not enough for the purpose to make the pupil occasionally learn and repeat by heart selected passages of prose or poetry , unless he is taught at the same time the ob- ject of the exercise unless he knows what habits are PREFACE .
... It is not enough for the purpose to make the pupil occasionally learn and repeat by heart selected passages of prose or poetry , unless he is taught at the same time the ob- ject of the exercise unless he knows what habits are PREFACE .
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... pupils , it might be expedient to go through it again and again , yet a single lesson a week under a competent instructor during an advanced period of education , would abundantly answer the purpose . INTRODUCTION .. CONTENTS . PAGE ...
... pupils , it might be expedient to go through it again and again , yet a single lesson a week under a competent instructor during an advanced period of education , would abundantly answer the purpose . INTRODUCTION .. CONTENTS . PAGE ...
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... pupil , are 1. AN EXACT AND FIRM ARTICULATION . 2. A FULL UTTERANCE AND PROPER USE OF THE ACCENTS OR INFLECTIONS OF ... pupil's attention INTRODUCTION.
... pupil , are 1. AN EXACT AND FIRM ARTICULATION . 2. A FULL UTTERANCE AND PROPER USE OF THE ACCENTS OR INFLECTIONS OF ... pupil's attention INTRODUCTION.
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Anger ARGUMENTATIVE MANNER beauty blood BREATH CONSONANTS Caius Verres called CHair match clause clouds cohobate common Conclusive Accents Contempt death decemvirs Delight denote downward accent Dread Elocution emphatic accent exercises Exultation fair Falstaff father fear feeling Fenton Firmness follow force friends give Grief hand happiness heard heart heaven honour Indignation Interrogative Words italic justice Justice Shallow king letter light looks Lord meaning MEDITATIVE MANNER merely modulative mind mingled modulation Narrative manner nature o'er Open vowels ophthalmy palatal passions Pity PLAINTIVE EXPRESSION Plaintive manner pleasures pride Prince Henry pronounced pupil rate of utterance reader relaxes rises Scorn sentence SHAKSPEARE shut sounds smiling soul speak speaker Suspensive and Conclusive sweet syllables theatres of blood thee thing thou thought tion tone tongue trembling triphthong unaccented syllables upward Vehemence VEHEMENT EXPRESSION virtue VOICE CONSONANTS words youth