The American Union Speaker: Containing Standard and Recent Selections in Prose and Poetry, for Recitation and Declamation, in Schools, Academies and Colleges : with Introductory Remarks on Elocution, and Explanatory Notes |
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... heard and understood , but it is a positive beauty of delivery , for the elementary sounds of speech , when properly uttered , are in themselves both agreeable and impres- sive . For the attainment of this desirable accomplishment ...
... heard and understood , but it is a positive beauty of delivery , for the elementary sounds of speech , when properly uttered , are in themselves both agreeable and impres- sive . For the attainment of this desirable accomplishment ...
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... heard these sounds given with distinctness by children five or six years of age . Indeed they should always be taught with the alphabet . The next step in articulation proceeds with the combinations of the elementary sounds . The most ...
... heard these sounds given with distinctness by children five or six years of age . Indeed they should always be taught with the alphabet . The next step in articulation proceeds with the combinations of the elementary sounds . The most ...
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... heard by more than thirty thousand auditors . It is said that the habit of speaking gave to the utterance of Garrick so wonderful an energy , that even his under - key was distinctly audible to ten thousand people . Dr. Porter sums up ...
... heard by more than thirty thousand auditors . It is said that the habit of speaking gave to the utterance of Garrick so wonderful an energy , that even his under - key was distinctly audible to ten thousand people . Dr. Porter sums up ...
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... ripe his hand addressed : But soon he saw the brisk , awakening viol , Whose sweet entrancing voice he loved the best . They would have thought , who heard the strain They saw , in Tempé's vale , her native maids xxii INTRODUCTORY REMARKS.
... ripe his hand addressed : But soon he saw the brisk , awakening viol , Whose sweet entrancing voice he loved the best . They would have thought , who heard the strain They saw , in Tempé's vale , her native maids xxii INTRODUCTORY REMARKS.
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... fineness o ' your ear for music — ye canna ca ' t sherp , for it's aye sae natʼral -- and flett it cud never be , gin you were even gi'en ower by the doctors . It's maist the - - only voice I ever heard , that I can ON DECLAMATION . xxiii.
... fineness o ' your ear for music — ye canna ca ' t sherp , for it's aye sae natʼral -- and flett it cud never be , gin you were even gi'en ower by the doctors . It's maist the - - only voice I ever heard , that I can ON DECLAMATION . xxiii.
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