memory for declamation, it should be perfectly committed, before it is spoken; as any labor of recollection is certainly fatal to freedom, and variety, and force in speaking. In general, it were well that the same piece should be subsequently once or more repeated, with a view to adopt the suggestions of the Instructer. The selected pieces are short, because, for the purpose of improvement in elocution, a piece of four or five minutes, is better than one of fifteen. And more advance may be made, in managing the voice and countenance, by speaking, several times, a short speech, though an old one, like that of Brutus on the death of Casar, (if it is done with due care each time to correct what was amiss,) than in speaking many long pieces, however spirited or new, which are but half committed, and in the delivery of which all scope of feeling and adaptation of manner, are frustrated by labor of memory. The attempt to speak with this indolent, halting preparation, is in all respects worse than nothing. KEY OF INFLECTION. denotes monotone. rising inflection. falling inflection. circumflex. KEY OF MODULATION. (°) high. (°°) high and loud. (。) low. (oo) low and loud. (..) slow. (||) rhetorical pause. CHAP. I. CONTENTS. Difficulties from the genius of written language All directions subsidiary to expression of feeling SECT. 1. Importance of a good articulation SECT. 2. Causes of defective articulation Difficulty of many consonant sounds Immediate succession of similar sounds RULE I. Influence of disjunctive or on Inflection RULE II. Of the Direct Question and its Answer RULE III. Of Negation opposed to Affirmation RULE IV. Of the Pause of Suspension RULE V. Of the influence of Tender Emotion on the voice RULE VI. Of the Penultimate Pause RULE VII. Of the Indirect Question and its Answer RULE VIII. The language of Authority and of Surprise CHAP. III. TONES AND INFLECTIONS SECT. 1. Tones considered as á language of emotion 69 .. Rhetorical Pause . Compass of Voice Transition Expression The spirit of Emphasis to be cultivated A habit of discrimination as to Tones & Inflection Strength of voice important to a public speaker 107 -Depends on good organs of speech . . 108 -And on the proper exercise of these organs 109 138 144 ib. 148 ib. EXERCISES ON MODULATION. Hamlet's Soliloquy The power of Eloquence 23. Difference between common and Intensive In- 160 162 167 169 |
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