The public school speaker and reader, ed. by J.E. CarpenterJoseph Edwards Carpenter 1869 |
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... never to be drawn but at a full stop or period . " It has been before observed that the use of these pauses is for the greater ease and facility of the speaker . The absurdity of this injunction must be therefore most apparent , since ...
... never to be drawn but at a full stop or period . " It has been before observed that the use of these pauses is for the greater ease and facility of the speaker . The absurdity of this injunction must be therefore most apparent , since ...
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... never be suffered to incline to the body ; nor should the hands assume a rigid and constrained appear- ance in the disposition of the fingers , by being held open and flat , as if about to administer a sound " box on the ear , " or ...
... never be suffered to incline to the body ; nor should the hands assume a rigid and constrained appear- ance in the disposition of the fingers , by being held open and flat , as if about to administer a sound " box on the ear , " or ...
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... never be strongly accented in reading or reciting verse . 4. Elisions , so frequently found in our earlier poets , must seldom or never be attended to in reading verse - thus in " gen'rous " the dropped " e " must be sounded as in ...
... never be strongly accented in reading or reciting verse . 4. Elisions , so frequently found in our earlier poets , must seldom or never be attended to in reading verse - thus in " gen'rous " the dropped " e " must be sounded as in ...
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... Never read in public a piece with which you are previously un- acquainted : you must , in order to give the proper emphasis to the lines before you , be acquainted with what is to follow . At least one perusal of the piece you may be ...
... Never read in public a piece with which you are previously un- acquainted : you must , in order to give the proper emphasis to the lines before you , be acquainted with what is to follow . At least one perusal of the piece you may be ...
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... never attend to it ; we never make it a subject of thought , but as it has to do with our animal sensations ; we look upon all by which it speaks to us more clearly than to brutes , upon all which bears witness to the intention of the ...
... never attend to it ; we never make it a subject of thought , but as it has to do with our animal sensations ; we look upon all by which it speaks to us more clearly than to brutes , upon all which bears witness to the intention of the ...
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