The Speaker; Or, Miscellaneous Pieces: Selected from the Very Best English Writers, and Disposed Under Proper Heads, with a View to Facilitate the Improvement of Youth in Reading and Speaking. To which is Prefixed an Essay on ElocutionW. Borrowdale, 1808 - 412 pagina's |
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... seems to expect an answer , should almost always be elevated at the clofe , with a peculiar tone , to indicate that a question is afked . Some fentences are so conftructed , that the laft word requires a stronger emphasis than any of ...
... seems to expect an answer , should almost always be elevated at the clofe , with a peculiar tone , to indicate that a question is afked . Some fentences are so conftructed , that the laft word requires a stronger emphasis than any of ...
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... seems to be chiefly in the motive . The honest man does that from duty , which the man of honour does for the sake of character . A liar begins with making falfehood appear like truth , and ends with making truth itself appear like ...
... seems to be chiefly in the motive . The honest man does that from duty , which the man of honour does for the sake of character . A liar begins with making falfehood appear like truth , and ends with making truth itself appear like ...
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... seems to me most strange that men fhould fear ; Seeing that death , a necessary end , Will come , when it will come . There is fome foul of goodness in things evil , Would men observingly distil it out , For our bad neighbour makes us ...
... seems to me most strange that men fhould fear ; Seeing that death , a necessary end , Will come , when it will come . There is fome foul of goodness in things evil , Would men observingly distil it out , For our bad neighbour makes us ...
Pagina 75
... seem'd A perfect femblance of his Indian fair : But when she spoke of love , her voice furpafs'd The harmonious warblings of Italian fong . Twice one long year elaps'd , when letters came , Which briefly told him of his father's death ...
... seem'd A perfect femblance of his Indian fair : But when she spoke of love , her voice furpafs'd The harmonious warblings of Italian fong . Twice one long year elaps'd , when letters came , Which briefly told him of his father's death ...
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... seem to have it is loft . There is fomething unnatural in painting , which a skilful eye will eafily difcern from native beauty and complexion . It is hard to perfonate and act a part long ; for where truth is not at the bottom , nature ...
... seem to have it is loft . There is fomething unnatural in painting , which a skilful eye will eafily difcern from native beauty and complexion . It is hard to perfonate and act a part long ; for where truth is not at the bottom , nature ...
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