The Speaker, Or, Miscellaneous Pieces Selected from the Best English Writers and Disposed Under Proper Heads: With a View to Facilitate the Improvement of Youth in Reading and Speaking : to which are Prefixed Two Essays, I. On Elocution, II. On Reading Works of Taste |
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... and it is for want of this previous study , inore perhaps than from any other cause , that we so oftev bear persons read with an improper emphasis , or with no emphasis at all ; , that is , with a stupid monotony .
... and it is for want of this previous study , inore perhaps than from any other cause , that we so oftev bear persons read with an improper emphasis , or with no emphasis at all ; , that is , with a stupid monotony .
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... and from the analogy which these bear to several other feelings excited by different causes ; the term Sublimity is applied to various other subjects , as dignity of rank , extent of power , and eminence of merit .
... and from the analogy which these bear to several other feelings excited by different causes ; the term Sublimity is applied to various other subjects , as dignity of rank , extent of power , and eminence of merit .
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When Darius offered Alexander ten thousand talents to divide Asia equally with him , he answered , “ The earth cannot bear two suns , nor Asia two kings . ” Parmenio , a friend of Alexander's , hearing the great offers Darius had made ...
When Darius offered Alexander ten thousand talents to divide Asia equally with him , he answered , “ The earth cannot bear two suns , nor Asia two kings . ” Parmenio , a friend of Alexander's , hearing the great offers Darius had made ...
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... now pours into thy wounds -- the Being who has twice bruised thee can only bind them up for CHAP . XII . THE CHAMELEON . Oft has it. STERNE : ever . recoinpense kis mere intent . No virtuous wish can bear 32 NARRATIVE PIECES .
... now pours into thy wounds -- the Being who has twice bruised thee can only bind them up for CHAP . XII . THE CHAMELEON . Oft has it. STERNE : ever . recoinpense kis mere intent . No virtuous wish can bear 32 NARRATIVE PIECES .
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Ah , youth ! what woes , too great for man to bear , Are ready to burst on thee ? Urge not so Thy flying courser . Soon Theana's porch Receiv'd him ; ' at his sight the ancient slaves Affrighted shriek , and to the chamber point ...
Ah , youth ! what woes , too great for man to bear , Are ready to burst on thee ? Urge not so Thy flying courser . Soon Theana's porch Receiv'd him ; ' at his sight the ancient slaves Affrighted shriek , and to the chamber point ...
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