The English Reader Or Pieces in Prose and Poetry Selected from the Best WritersLongmann and Rees, 1799 - 356 páginas |
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Página viii
... must endeavour to fill with his voice the space occupied by the company . This power of voice , it may be thought , is wholly a natural talent . It is , in a good meafure , the gift of nature ; but it may receive con- fiderable ...
... must endeavour to fill with his voice the space occupied by the company . This power of voice , it may be thought , is wholly a natural talent . It is , in a good meafure , the gift of nature ; but it may receive con- fiderable ...
Página ix
... must take the highest pitch of his voice , in order to be well heard in a large company . This is confounding two things which are different , loud- ness or strength of found , with the key or note on which we speak . There is a variety ...
... must take the highest pitch of his voice , in order to be well heard in a large company . This is confounding two things which are different , loud- ness or strength of found , with the key or note on which we speak . There is a variety ...
Página xi
... must render every fuch performance infipid and fatiguing . But the extreme of reading too faft is much more common ; and requires the more to be guarded againft , becaufe , when it has grown up into a habit , few errors are more ...
... must render every fuch performance infipid and fatiguing . But the extreme of reading too faft is much more common ; and requires the more to be guarded againft , becaufe , when it has grown up into a habit , few errors are more ...
Página xiii
... must be diftinguished by a particular tone of voice , as well as by a particular stress . On the right ma▾ nagement of the emphafis depends the life of pronunciation . If no emphafis be placed on any words , not only is dif courfe ...
... must be diftinguished by a particular tone of voice , as well as by a particular stress . On the right ma▾ nagement of the emphafis depends the life of pronunciation . If no emphafis be placed on any words , not only is dif courfe ...
Página xv
... must be determined entirely by the fenfe of the pafsage , and al- ways made alike : but as to the inferior emphasis , tafte alone feems to have the right of fixing its fituation and quantity . Among a number of perfons , who have had ...
... must be determined entirely by the fenfe of the pafsage , and al- ways made alike : but as to the inferior emphasis , tafte alone feems to have the right of fixing its fituation and quantity . Among a number of perfons , who have had ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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