The English Reader Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best Writers ...: With a Few Preliminary Observations on the Principles of Good Reading |
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... VOICE ; DISTINCTNESS ; SLOWNESS ; PROPRIETY OF PRO- NUNCIATION ; EMPHASIS ; TONES ; PAUSES ; and MODE OF READING VERSE , SECTION I. Proper Loudness of Voice . THE first attention of every person who reads to others , doubtless , must be ...
... VOICE ; DISTINCTNESS ; SLOWNESS ; PROPRIETY OF PRO- NUNCIATION ; EMPHASIS ; TONES ; PAUSES ; and MODE OF READING VERSE , SECTION I. Proper Loudness of Voice . THE first attention of every person who reads to others , doubtless , must be ...
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... voice before we have done . We shall fatigue ourselves , and read with pain ; and whenever a person speaks with pain to himself , he is always heard with pain by his audience . Let us therefore give the voice full strength and swell of ...
... voice before we have done . We shall fatigue ourselves , and read with pain ; and whenever a person speaks with pain to himself , he is always heard with pain by his audience . Let us therefore give the voice full strength and swell of ...
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... voice is allowed to fall . It may easily be gathered at the intervals of the period , when the voice is suspended only for a moment ; and , by this management , one may always have a sufficient stock for carrying on the longest sentence ...
... voice is allowed to fall . It may easily be gathered at the intervals of the period , when the voice is suspended only for a moment ; and , by this management , one may always have a sufficient stock for carrying on the longest sentence ...
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of future felicity | 80 |
Cicero against Verres | 91 |
An address to young persons | 100 |
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