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ELEMENTS

OF

ELOCUTION.

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

OF

ELOCUTION:

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,

A

AUTHOR OF THE CRITICAL PRONOUNCING DICTIONARY, &c.

Est quôdam 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.

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