The Art of Delivering Written Language: Or, An Essay on Reading. In which the Subject is Treated Philosophically as Well as with a View to Practice |
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Page 33 - OF Man's firft difobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whofe mortal tafte Brought death into the world, and all our woe.
Page 142 - Cadences, the quantity of the above-named variations from natural speech, pronunciation, and some other less material particulars, are directed by Taste and Custom: — and (lastly) where affectation of every sort is to be dreaded as the greatest blemish, and where Ease, Masterliness, and Genuine Grace are considered as principal beauties, and the proper substitutes for the inferior degree of warmth and energy, which the delivery of written language ought always to discover, when compared with the...
Page 34 - Suppofing, in reference to the above well-known lines, that originally other beings, befides men, had difobeyed the commands of the Almighty, and that the circumftance were well known to us, there would fall an emphafis upon the word man's in the firft line^ and. hence it would be read thus ; 'Of man's firft difobedience, and the fruit, &c.
Page 7 - ... of his memory. It follows then, in proof of our initial proposition, that, if we are directed by nature and propriety, the manner of our delivery in reading ought to be inferior in warmth and energy to what we...
Page 39 - ... alike, either as to place or quantity. Nay fome fcarce ufe any at all, and others will not fcruple to carry it much beyond any thing we have a precedent for in common difcourfe, and even now and then throw it upon words fo very trifling in themfelves, that it is evident they do it with no other view, than for the fake of the variety it gives to the modulation.^— This practice, like the introduction of difcords...
Page 89 - ... mountain's craggy forehead torn, A rock's round fragment flies, with fury borne (Which from the stubborn stone a torrent rends), Precipitate the...
Page 141 - SIGNS OF THE EMOTIONS ARE IN quality THE SAME AS THEY WOULD FLOW SPONTANEOUSLY FROM NATURE, BUT ABATED SOMETHING IN quantity, AND THOSE MOST, WHICH ARE IN THEMSELVES OF THE DISAGREEABLE KIND : WHERE THE EMPHASIS OF FORCE, ORNAMENTAL CADENCES, THE QUANTITY OF THE ABOVE-NAMED VARIATIONS FROM NATURAL SPEECH, AND SOME OTHER LESS MATERIAL PARTICULARS, ARE DIRECTED BY TASTE AND CUSTOM; AND (LASTLY) WHERE AFFECTATION OF EVERY SORT IS TO BE DREADED AS THE GREATEST BLEMISH, AND WHERE EASE, MASTERLINESS AND...
Page 140 - Reading is THE ART OF DELIVERING WRITTEN LANGUAGE WITH propriety, force, AND elegance. WHERE (AS IN SPEAKING) THE PRONUNCIATION OF THE WORDS IS COPIED AFTER THE POLITE AND LEARNED OF OUR COUNTRY, AND THE EM" PHASIS OF SENSE, THE PAUSES, AND SIGNIFICANT CADENCES ARE DETERMINED.
Page 90 - ... itfelf to the eye, thereby giving the communications of the heart a double advantage over thofe of the underftanding, and us a double chance to preferve fo ineftimable a bleffing.
Page 38 - Get wealth and power, if possible, with grace; If not — by any means get wealth and place.