ELEMENTS

OF

ELOCUTION.

८

J. M'Creery, Printer, Black-Horse-Court, London.

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OF

ELOCUTION:

(IN IN WHICH THE

PRINCIPLES OF READING AND SPEAKING

ARE INVESTIGATED;

AND SUCH

PAUSES, EMPHASIS, AND INFLEXIONS OF VOICE, AS ARE SUITABLE

TO EVERY VARIETY OF SENTENCE, ARE DISTINCTLY

POINTED OUT AND EXPLAINED;

WITH DIRECTIONS FOR

STRENGTHENING AND MODULATING THE VOICE,

SO AS TO RENDER IT VARIED, FORCIBLE, AND HARMONIOUS :

TO WHICH IS ADDED,

A COMPLETE SYSTEM OF THE PASSIONS;

SHOWING HOW THEY AFFECT THE

COUNTENANCE, TONE OF VOICE, AND GESTURE OF THE BODY,

EXEMPLIFIED

by a copious Selection of the most striking Passages of

SHAKSPEARE.

THE WHOLE ILLUSTRATED BY COPPER-PLATES, EXPLAINING THE NATURE

OF ACCENT, EMPHASIS, INFLEXION, AND CADENCE. )

THE FIFTH EDITION.

BY JOHN WALKER,

AUTHOR OF THE CRITICAL PRONOUNCING DICTIONARY, &c.

Est quôdaın prodire tenus.-Hor.

London :

PRINTED FOR CADELL AND DAVIES; G. WILKIE; LONGMAN, HURST, REES,

ORME, AND BROWN;

J. MAWMAN, J. MURRAY; G, AND S. ROBINSON;

AND WALKER, EDWARDS, AND REYNOLDS.

1815.

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