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 TasteF.C. and J. Rivington, 1815 - 346 páginas |
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... common , and therefore requires particular notice , is the omission of the aspirate h . Through several counties in England this de- fect almost universally prevails , and sometimes occasions ludicrous , and even serious mistakes . This ...
... common , and therefore requires particular notice , is the omission of the aspirate h . Through several counties in England this de- fect almost universally prevails , and sometimes occasions ludicrous , and even serious mistakes . This ...
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... common usage . There is the greater occasion for this precaution , as a rule has been arbitrarily introduced upon this subject , which has no foun- dation either in the structure of the English language , or in the principles of harmony ...
... common usage . There is the greater occasion for this precaution , as a rule has been arbitrarily introduced upon this subject , which has no foun- dation either in the structure of the English language , or in the principles of harmony ...
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... common faults respecting emphasis are , laying so strong an emphasis upon one word as to leave no power of giving a particular force to other words , which , though not equally , are in a certain degree emphatical : and placing the ...
... common faults respecting emphasis are , laying so strong an emphasis upon one word as to leave no power of giving a particular force to other words , which , though not equally , are in a certain degree emphatical : and placing the ...
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... common magazine of nature , stores before unnoticed ; and to adorn their works , not only with new decorations of language , but with original conceptions . And , notwithstanding the complaint of indo- lence and dulness , that the ...
... common magazine of nature , stores before unnoticed ; and to adorn their works , not only with new decorations of language , but with original conceptions . And , notwithstanding the complaint of indo- lence and dulness , that the ...
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... common fame : for on questions of taste and feeling the general result of public opinion is seldom wrong . The second object of attention in reading works of taste , that of forming a judgment concerning their merit , requires , beside ...
... common fame : for on questions of taste and feeling the general result of public opinion is seldom wrong . The second object of attention in reading works of taste , that of forming a judgment concerning their merit , requires , beside ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
army Balaam beauty bliss bosom breast Brutus Cæsar CHAP cheerful cried daughter death divine doth earth elocution endeavour eternal Eust Ev'n ev'ry father fear feel fool fortune Fram Gauls give glory Gods grace hand happy hast hath head hear heard heart Heav'n honour hope Iago kind king labour live look lord Macd mankind Maria marriage means mind motley fool Muse nature Nature's never noble nymph o'er once pain Parliament pass'd passion patricians peace perfection person pity pleasure poor pow'r praise privy counsellor racter replied Scythians sense sentence SHAKSPEARE Sir John smile SNEYD DAVIES soon soul speak spirit Sterl sweet Syphax taste tears tell Theana thee thing thou thought Tis green truth uncle Toby vex'd virtue virtuous voice whole wisdom wise words youth