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There are some, however, who consider that delivery which owes nothing to art and everything to
natural impulse is more forcible, and in fact the only
form of delivery which is worthy of a manly speaker.
[p. 249]
But these persons are as a rule identical, either with
those who are in the habit of disapproving of care,
art, polish and every form of premeditation in actual
speaking, as being affected and unnatural, or else
with those who (like Lucius Cotta, according to
Cicero)1 affect the imitation of ancient writers both
in their choice of words and even in the rudeness of
their intonation and rhythm.
1 de Or. III. xi. 42. Brut. lxxiv. 259.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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