Lessons in Elocution: Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse, for the Improvement of Youth in Reading and Speaking |
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... falls ; the lips pale , the eyes are cast down , half shut , eyelids swelled and red or livid , tears trickling silent and unwiped ; with a total inattention to every thing that passes . Words , if any , few , and those dragged out ...
... falls ; the lips pale , the eyes are cast down , half shut , eyelids swelled and red or livid , tears trickling silent and unwiped ; with a total inattention to every thing that passes . Words , if any , few , and those dragged out ...
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... fall utterance to the several simple and complex sounds . The nature of these sounds , therefore , ought to be well un- derstood ; and mich pains should be taken to discover and correct those faults in articulation , which though often ...
... fall utterance to the several simple and complex sounds . The nature of these sounds , therefore , ought to be well un- derstood ; and mich pains should be taken to discover and correct those faults in articulation , which though often ...
Page 49
... fall liberty to follow his own understanding aud feelings . The most common faults respecting emphasis are laying so strong an emphasis on one word as to leave no power of giving a particular force to other words , which , though not ...
... fall liberty to follow his own understanding aud feelings . The most common faults respecting emphasis are laying so strong an emphasis on one word as to leave no power of giving a particular force to other words , which , though not ...
Page 51
... fall it at the end of a sentence . Interrogatives , where the speaker seems to expect an answer , should al- most always be elevated at the close , with a particular tone , to indicate that a estion is asked . Same sentences are so ...
... fall it at the end of a sentence . Interrogatives , where the speaker seems to expect an answer , should al- most always be elevated at the close , with a particular tone , to indicate that a estion is asked . Same sentences are so ...
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... fall headlong into vice . Examine well the counsel that favors your desires . The gratification of desire is sometimes the worst thing that can befal us . IV . TO be angry , is to punish myself for the fault of an- ether . A word ...
... fall headlong into vice . Examine well the counsel that favors your desires . The gratification of desire is sometimes the worst thing that can befal us . IV . TO be angry , is to punish myself for the fault of an- ether . A word ...
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