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 14
... those who unite these two characters , and with the cor- rectness and precision of true learning , combine the ease and elegance of genteel life . An attention to fuch models , and a free intercourfe with the polite world , are the best ...
... those who unite these two characters , and with the cor- rectness and precision of true learning , combine the ease and elegance of genteel life . An attention to fuch models , and a free intercourfe with the polite world , are the best ...
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... those inflections and variations to the voice , which nature requires : and it is for want of this previous fludy , more perhaps than from any other cause , that we so often hear persons read with an impro- per emphasis , or with no ...
... those inflections and variations to the voice , which nature requires : and it is for want of this previous fludy , more perhaps than from any other cause , that we so often hear persons read with an impro- per emphasis , or with no ...
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... those who have with great labour and taste acquired a power of imitating nature ; and accuftom yourfelf either to follow the great original itself , or the best copies you meet with ; always , however , with this special obfervance ...
... those who have with great labour and taste acquired a power of imitating nature ; and accuftom yourfelf either to follow the great original itself , or the best copies you meet with ; always , however , with this special obfervance ...
Pagina 35
... those who come only for amufement , but prejudicial to him who would reap the profit . It often happens that those are the best people , whose characters have been moft injured by flanderers ; as we ufually find that to be the sweetest ...
... those who come only for amufement , but prejudicial to him who would reap the profit . It often happens that those are the best people , whose characters have been moft injured by flanderers ; as we ufually find that to be the sweetest ...
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... those fchemes which it does not pursue . The chief advantage that antient writers can boast over modern ones , feems owing to fimplicity . Every neble truth and fentiment was expreffed by the former in a natu- ral manner , in a word and ...
... those fchemes which it does not pursue . The chief advantage that antient writers can boast over modern ones , feems owing to fimplicity . Every neble truth and fentiment was expreffed by the former in a natu- ral manner , in a word and ...
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