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Of the Origin and Progress of Language

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: be called the mufic of language, befides the beauty which an agreeable articulation gives to language. And, when to thefe are added the proper changes of voice, fuch as the fubjecT: requires, and all the various tones of fentiment and paffion, the ear is not only charmed, but the fenfe more forcibly conveyed. Speaking, therefore, may be faid to be language living whereas writing, is nothing but the dead letter, and only a fecondary ait dependent upon fpeaking; for the beft way of judging of the written ftyle is tp give it voice and pronounce it. Whoever, therefore, would excel! in writing, fhould begin with forming his ear, and fhould be fure that he is a good judge of fpeaking; by which I do not mean that it, is neceflaj'y he Ihould be a good reader or fpeaker (for that depends upon natural of-- gans, of which he may not be pofleifed); but he fiiould be a.judge of pronunciation, and know what will have a good or bad effect when it is fpoken. If he want this knowledge, whatever other talents he may have as a writer, his compofition will certainly be defective. This obfervation applies in a particular manner tp all compofir tions in writing which are intended to be fpoken, fuch as orations and dramatic poetry. The written orations of Demofthenes would not have had fuch an effect upon thofe that read them, as we are told by the antient critics they had, if he had not perfectly underftood, as we know he did, the art of pronunciation; and our Shakefpeare's fcenes would not pleafe fo much, either in the reading or reprefentation, if the poet himfelf had not been an actor, and fo known what was proper for fpeaking on the ftage. For though, as it is reported, he was a bad performer, yet he muft certainly have been a judge of the art, otherwife he could not, by what he has written, ...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217522182
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 84
  • Spine Width: 4 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217522181
  • Publisher Date: 13 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 168 gr


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