A help to elocution and eloquence Containing three essays. I. On reading and declamation, wherein the Principles of both are laid down under the several Heads of Emphasis, Climax, Modulation, Pauses, Breaks, Transitions, Cadences, and Gesture. II. On the marks and characters of the different passions and affections of the mind. III. On composition, tending to explain and illustrate the Beauties of fine Writing, and the Principles on which they depend. Designed to form the Minds of Youth to a true Taste in Reading; to enable them to judge of the Beauties of Writing from their own Observation; and to ground them in an elegant Manner of Composition. To which is added, a very large collection of examples, in Prose and Verse, selected from the Best Authors, for the Exercise of the Scholar in Reading and Declaiming. For the use of schools
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| Language: | English |
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London
printed for John Bell, (successor to Mr. Bathoe) near Exter Exchange, in the Strand ; C. Etherington, W. Tesseyman, J. Todd and H. Sotheran, and D. Peck, booksellers in York
1770, 1770
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| Collection: | Eighteenth Century Collections Online / ECCO - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Item Description: | English Short Title Catalog, T73174. - F4 is a cancel. - Reproduction of original from British Library. - Signatures *B-*D have been inserted between B4 and B5 |
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| Physical Description: | Online-Ressource (viii,19,[2],22-56,[1],22-323,[1]p) 12° |