The Speaker: Or, Miscellaneous Pieces, Selected from the Best English Writers: And Disposed Under Proper Heads, with a View to Facilitate the Improvement of Youth in Reading and Speaking : to which is Prefixed an Essay on ElocutionJ. Johnson, 1782 - 405 pages |
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Page vi
... the feveral perceptions , emotions and paffions of the human mind , and to distinguish these from the mere effect of arbitrary custom or false tafte ; to to discover and correct those tones , and habits of vi AN ESSAY ON AY ON.
... the feveral perceptions , emotions and paffions of the human mind , and to distinguish these from the mere effect of arbitrary custom or false tafte ; to to discover and correct those tones , and habits of vi AN ESSAY ON AY ON.
Page viii
... these respect the founding of the confonants . Some cannot pro- nounce the letter l , and others the fimple founds . x , s , th , fb ; others generally omit the afpirate b . These faults may be corrected , by reading fen- tences , fo ...
... these respect the founding of the confonants . Some cannot pro- nounce the letter l , and others the fimple founds . x , s , th , fb ; others generally omit the afpirate b . These faults may be corrected , by reading fen- tences , fo ...
Page x
... these rules with perfeverance , till you have ac- quired ftrength and energy of fpeech . BUT in obferving this rule , beware of running into the extreme of vociferation . We find this fault chiefly among thofe , who , in contempt and ...
... these rules with perfeverance , till you have ac- quired ftrength and energy of fpeech . BUT in obferving this rule , beware of running into the extreme of vociferation . We find this fault chiefly among thofe , who , in contempt and ...
Page xi
... These are the fpeakers ,, who , in Shakespear's phrafe , " offend the judicious hearer to the foul , by tearing a paffion to rags , to very tatters , to split the ears of the groundlings . " Cicero compares fuch speakers to cripples who ...
... These are the fpeakers ,, who , in Shakespear's phrafe , " offend the judicious hearer to the foul , by tearing a paffion to rags , to very tatters , to split the ears of the groundlings . " Cicero compares fuch speakers to cripples who ...
Page xv
... These faults , and all others of the fame nature , must be corrected in the pronunciation of a gen- tleman , who is fuppofed to have seen too much of the world , to retain the peculiarities of the diftrict in which he was born . RULE V ...
... These faults , and all others of the fame nature , must be corrected in the pronunciation of a gen- tleman , who is fuppofed to have seen too much of the world , to retain the peculiarities of the diftrict in which he was born . RULE V ...
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