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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RULE V. Pronounce every word consisting of more than one syllable with its proper ACCENT . As , when any stringed musical instrument receives a smart percussion , it's vibrations at first produce a loud and full sound , which gradually ...
RULE V. Pronounce every word consisting of more than one syllable with its proper ACCENT . As , when any stringed musical instrument receives a smart percussion , it's vibrations at first produce a loud and full sound , which gradually ...
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Upon every subject and occasion ou which we speak , some kind of feeling accompanies the words ; and this feeling , whatever it be , has it's proper expression . It is an essential part of elocution , to imitate this language of Nature ...
Upon every subject and occasion ou which we speak , some kind of feeling accompanies the words ; and this feeling , whatever it be , has it's proper expression . It is an essential part of elocution , to imitate this language of Nature ...
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The agreeable EMPLOYMENT , which reading works of taste affords the active faculties of the mind , is it's first and most obvious effect . The productions of genius , whether written in narrative , descriptive , or dramatic form , agree ...
The agreeable EMPLOYMENT , which reading works of taste affords the active faculties of the mind , is it's first and most obvious effect . The productions of genius , whether written in narrative , descriptive , or dramatic form , agree ...
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These are rich and spacious fields , from which genius may collect materials for it's various productions , without hazard of exhausting their treasures . The ancients , numerous as their works of fancy are , were capable of enriching ...
These are rich and spacious fields , from which genius may collect materials for it's various productions , without hazard of exhausting their treasures . The ancients , numerous as their works of fancy are , were capable of enriching ...
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... such writings as these provide a kind of entertainment , which is in it's nature elegant and refined , and which admits of endless diversity . By exhibiting images industriously collected XXX ON READING WORKS OF TASTE .
... such writings as these provide a kind of entertainment , which is in it's nature elegant and refined , and which admits of endless diversity . By exhibiting images industriously collected XXX ON READING WORKS OF TASTE .
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