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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Pagina 20
... fall it at the end of a fentence . Interroga- tives , where the speaker 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 ...
... fall it at the end of a fentence . Interroga- tives , where the speaker 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 ...
Pagina 30
... fall by little and little . A rich man beginning to fall is held up of his friends but a poor man being down is thruft away by his friends . When a rich man is fallen he hath many helpers : he Ipeaketh things not to be fpoken , and yet ...
... fall by little and little . A rich man beginning to fall is held up of his friends but a poor man being down is thruft away by his friends . When a rich man is fallen he hath many helpers : he Ipeaketh things not to be fpoken , and yet ...
Pagina 38
... falls out , That what we have we prize not to the worth , While we enjoy it ; but being lack'd and loft , Why then we wreak the value ; then we find The virtue that poffeffion would not fhew us Whilst it was ours . Cowards die many ...
... falls out , That what we have we prize not to the worth , While we enjoy it ; but being lack'd and loft , Why then we wreak the value ; then we find The virtue that poffeffion would not fhew us Whilst it was ours . Cowards die many ...
Pagina 40
... Fall forrow's tooth doth never rankle more , Than when it bites , but lanceth not the fore . -'Tis flander ; Whofe edge is fharper than the fword ; whofe tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile ; whofe breath Rides on the posting winds ...
... Fall forrow's tooth doth never rankle more , Than when it bites , but lanceth not the fore . -'Tis flander ; Whofe edge is fharper than the fword ; whofe tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile ; whofe breath Rides on the posting winds ...
Pagina 54
... falling ill of the fame diftemper , he was afraid of being bereft of them all , and made a vow , if Heaven would not take him from him alfo , he would go in gratitude to St. Jago in Spain . When the mourner got thus far in his story ...
... falling ill of the fame diftemper , he was afraid of being bereft of them all , and made a vow , if Heaven would not take him from him alfo , he would go in gratitude to St. Jago in Spain . When the mourner got thus far in his story ...
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