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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... kind of discourse or writing to be delivered , whether it be narrative , didactic , argumentative , oratorical , colloquial , descriptive , or pathetic ; must be the result of much attention and labour . And there can be no reason to ...
... kind of discourse or writing to be delivered , whether it be narrative , didactic , argumentative , oratorical , colloquial , descriptive , or pathetic ; must be the result of much attention and labour . And there can be no reason to ...
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... kind of daylight in the mind , and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity * ; the principal stress is laid upon certain substantives , adjec- tives , and verbs ; and the rest of the sentence is spoken with an inferior degree of ...
... kind of daylight in the mind , and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity * ; the principal stress is laid upon certain substantives , adjec- tives , and verbs ; and the rest of the sentence is spoken with an inferior degree of ...
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... kind : Anger may glance into the bicast of a wise man , but rests only in the bosom of fools . To err is human ; to forgive , divine . An angry man who suppresses his passion , thinks worse than he speaks ; and an angry man that will ...
... kind : Anger may glance into the bicast of a wise man , but rests only in the bosom of fools . To err is human ; to forgive , divine . An angry man who suppresses his passion , thinks worse than he speaks ; and an angry man that will ...
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... kind of uniformity , which the poet probably did not intend ; and which , if he had , would certainly , at least in a poem of considerable length , become insufferably tiresome . In read- 1 ing prose , this fondness for melody is ...
... kind of uniformity , which the poet probably did not intend ; and which , if he had , would certainly , at least in a poem of considerable length , become insufferably tiresome . In read- 1 ing prose , this fondness for melody is ...
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... kind of reading , which has so little merit considered as music , and none at all considered as speaking , should be so studiously practised , and so much admired . Can a me- thod of reading , which is so entirely different from the ...
... kind of reading , which has so little merit considered as music , and none at all considered as speaking , should be so studiously practised , and so much admired . Can a me- thod of reading , which is so entirely different from the ...
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