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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... .. ....... 83 CHAPTER III . EXERCISES IN SPEAKING , FOR THE PURPOSE OF ACQUIR- ING A VARIED AND SUITABLE EXPRESSION . Preliminary Remarks ........ 87 The Narrative , the Argumentative , and the Meditative manner CONTENTS . xi.
... .. ....... 83 CHAPTER III . EXERCISES IN SPEAKING , FOR THE PURPOSE OF ACQUIR- ING A VARIED AND SUITABLE EXPRESSION . Preliminary Remarks ........ 87 The Narrative , the Argumentative , and the Meditative manner CONTENTS . xi.
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Benjamin Humphrey Smart. The Narrative , the Argumentative , and the Meditative manner PAGE 88 SUBJECTS OF THE EXERCISES . NO . 1. Modesty and Assurance exemplified . Addison .... 2. The Golden Age . Thomson 89 90 3. Sincerity wiser than ...
Benjamin Humphrey Smart. The Narrative , the Argumentative , and the Meditative manner PAGE 88 SUBJECTS OF THE EXERCISES . NO . 1. Modesty and Assurance exemplified . Addison .... 2. The Golden Age . Thomson 89 90 3. Sincerity wiser than ...
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... manner for every species of discourse , and every change of passion . These , from their nature , admit not of an adequate description ... meditative manner ; the ve- hement manner ; the plaintive manner ; gaiety of manner 2 INTRODUCTION .
... manner for every species of discourse , and every change of passion . These , from their nature , admit not of an adequate description ... meditative manner ; the ve- hement manner ; the plaintive manner ; gaiety of manner 2 INTRODUCTION .
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... Meditative manner . Even where the subjects are not of a nature to call for any marked expression of feeling , a difference of manner should dis- tinguish narration or description from argument , and meditation from both . When we ...
... Meditative manner . Even where the subjects are not of a nature to call for any marked expression of feeling , a difference of manner should dis- tinguish narration or description from argument , and meditation from both . When we ...
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... manner is that which may be call- ed Meditative . This takes place when the speaker seems to follow , not to guide , the train of thought ; —that is to say , when he does not seek to convey information of which he is previously ...
... manner is that which may be call- ed Meditative . This takes place when the speaker seems to follow , not to guide , the train of thought ; —that is to say , when he does not seek to convey information of which he is previously ...
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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