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while a weak
voice is incompatible with first-rate excellence in
delivery. For we may employ a good, strong voice
as we will; whereas one that is ugly or feeble not
only prevents us from producing a number of effects,
such as a crescendo or a sudden fortissimo, but at
times forces faults upon us, making us drop the
voice, alter its pitch and refresh the hoarseness of
the throat and fatigue of the lungs by a hideous
chanting intonation. However, let me now turn to
consider the speaker on whom my precepts will not
be wasted.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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