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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... heard or not depends more upon the distinctness and force , with which he utters his words , than upon the height of the key in which be speaks . Within a certain compass of notes , above or below xii ESSAY ON ELOCUTION .
... heard or not depends more upon the distinctness and force , with which he utters his words , than upon the height of the key in which be speaks . Within a certain compass of notes , above or below xii ESSAY ON ELOCUTION .
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... While it was ours . Cowards die many times before their deaths ; The valiant never taste of death but once . Of all the wonders that I yet have heard , It seems to me most strange , that men should 12 Book I. SELECT SENTENCES .
... While it was ours . Cowards die many times before their deaths ; The valiant never taste of death but once . Of all the wonders that I yet have heard , It seems to me most strange , that men should 12 Book I. SELECT SENTENCES .
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... player , That struts and frets his hour upon the stage , And then is heard no more ! It is a tale Told by an idiot , full of sound and fury , Signifying nothing . BOOK II . Narrative Pieces . A CHAP . I. 14 SELECT SENTENCES . BOOK I. to.
... player , That struts and frets his hour upon the stage , And then is heard no more ! It is a tale Told by an idiot , full of sound and fury , Signifying nothing . BOOK II . Narrative Pieces . A CHAP . I. 14 SELECT SENTENCES . BOOK I. to.
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... heard part of their conversation , but dare not tell you what it is . The sultan would not be satisfied with such an answer , but forced him to repeat , word for word , every thing the owls had said . You must know , then , said the ...
... heard part of their conversation , but dare not tell you what it is . The sultan would not be satisfied with such an answer , but forced him to repeat , word for word , every thing the owls had said . You must know , then , said the ...
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... heard of after : while La- bour , who could have no enjoyment without her daughters , went every where in search of them , till she was at last seized by Lassitude in her way , and died in misery . WORLD . CHAP . VI . THE OLD MAN AND ...
... heard of after : while La- bour , who could have no enjoyment without her daughters , went every where in search of them , till she was at last seized by Lassitude in her way , and died in misery . WORLD . CHAP . VI . THE OLD MAN AND ...
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