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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The eyes and countenance , as weil as the voice , are capable of endless variety of expression , suited to every possible diversity of feeling ; and with these the general air and gesture naturally accord . The use of this language is ...
The eyes and countenance , as weil as the voice , are capable of endless variety of expression , suited to every possible diversity of feeling ; and with these the general air and gesture naturally accord . The use of this language is ...
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Episodes of this kind may be compared to the ivy twining about the oak ; which , without concealing the form , or lessening the grandeur of the main object , gratifies the eye with a sense of variety . To complete the merit of any ...
Episodes of this kind may be compared to the ivy twining about the oak ; which , without concealing the form , or lessening the grandeur of the main object , gratifies the eye with a sense of variety . To complete the merit of any ...
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One of them had a very noble air , and graceful deportment : her beauty was natural and easy , her person clean and unspotted , her eyes cast toward the ground with an agreeable reserve , her motion and behaviour full of modesty ...
One of them had a very noble air , and graceful deportment : her beauty was natural and easy , her person clean and unspotted , her eyes cast toward the ground with an agreeable reserve , her motion and behaviour full of modesty ...
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But Jupiter assigned him a different partner , and commanded him to espouse Sorrow , the daughter of Atè . He complied with reluctance ; for her features were harsh and disagreeable , her eyes sænk , her forehead contracted into ...
But Jupiter assigned him a different partner , and commanded him to espouse Sorrow , the daughter of Atè . He complied with reluctance ; for her features were harsh and disagreeable , her eyes sænk , her forehead contracted into ...
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He looked attentively a long tine at it , beginning at the hilt , as if to see whether it was the same —when observing a little rust which it had contracted near the point , he brought it near his eye , and bending his head down over it ...
He looked attentively a long tine at it , beginning at the hilt , as if to see whether it was the same —when observing a little rust which it had contracted near the point , he brought it near his eye , and bending his head down over it ...
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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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