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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... which are perhaps of equal value . The exercise , which it gives to the imagination and feelings , improves the vigour and sensibility of the mind . It is the natural tendency of an intimate acquaintance with images of grandeur ...
... which are perhaps of equal value . The exercise , which it gives to the imagination and feelings , improves the vigour and sensibility of the mind . It is the natural tendency of an intimate acquaintance with images of grandeur ...
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Nothing more engages the affections of men , than a handsome address , and graceful conversation . Complaisance renders a superior amiable , an equal agreeable , and an inferior acceptable . Excess of ceremony shows want o breeding .
Nothing more engages the affections of men , than a handsome address , and graceful conversation . Complaisance renders a superior amiable , an equal agreeable , and an inferior acceptable . Excess of ceremony shows want o breeding .
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Young Celadon And his Amelia were a matchless pair ; With equal virtue forın'd , and equal grace ; The same , distinguish'd by their sex alone : Hers the mild lustre of the blooming morn , And his the radiance of the risen ...
Young Celadon And his Amelia were a matchless pair ; With equal virtue forın'd , and equal grace ; The same , distinguish'd by their sex alone : Hers the mild lustre of the blooming morn , And his the radiance of the risen ...
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If therefore you find , that you have a hästiness in your temper , which unguardedly breaks out into indiscreet sallies , or rough expressious , to either your superiors , your equals , or your inferiors , watch it narrowly , check it ...
If therefore you find , that you have a hästiness in your temper , which unguardedly breaks out into indiscreet sallies , or rough expressious , to either your superiors , your equals , or your inferiors , watch it narrowly , check it ...
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Ó blindness to the future ! kindly giv'n , That each may fill the circle mark'd by Heav'n ; Who sees with equal eye , as God of all , A hero perish , or a sparrow fall ; Atons or systems into ruin hurl'd , And now a bubble burst ...
Ó blindness to the future ! kindly giv'n , That each may fill the circle mark'd by Heav'n ; Who sees with equal eye , as God of all , A hero perish , or a sparrow fall ; Atons or systems into ruin hurl'd , And now a bubble burst ...
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| Título | 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 |
| Autor | William Enfield |
| Editora | F.C. and J. Rivington, 1815 |
| Original de | Universidade do Estado de Ohio |
| Digitalizado | 30 Set 2014 |
| Número de páginas | 346 páginas |
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