OF ELOCUTION: IN WHICH THE PRINCIPLES OF READING AND SPEAKING ARE INVESTIGATED; AND SUCH PAUSES, EMPHASIS, AND INFLEXIONS OF VOICE, AS ARE SUITABLE POINTED OUT AND EXPLAINED; WITH DIRECTIONS FOR STRENGTHENING AND MODULATING THE VOICE, SO AS TO Render it VARIED, FORCIBLE, AND HARMONIOUS: 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 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. |