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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... leave us , we fancy that we leave them . A count'nance more in Sorrow , than in Anger . A custom more honour'd in the Breach , than in the Observance . * Book iii , Chap . 2 . : In some sentences the antithesis is double , and xvi ESSAY ...
... leave us , we fancy that we leave them . A count'nance more in Sorrow , than in Anger . A custom more honour'd in the Breach , than in the Observance . * Book iii , Chap . 2 . : In some sentences the antithesis is double , and xvi ESSAY ...
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... leaving the reader at full liberty to follow his own understanding and feelings , they rather mislead than assist him . The most common faults respecting emphasis are , laying so strong an emphasis upon one word as to leave no power of ...
... leaving the reader at full liberty to follow his own understanding and feelings , they rather mislead than assist him . The most common faults respecting emphasis are , laying so strong an emphasis upon one word as to leave no power of ...
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... leaves the reader too much to supply . If , through the fertility of his invention , his language naturally becomes diffuse , let him guard against that kind of obscurity , which is the effect of involving the sense in a cloud of words ...
... leaves the reader too much to supply . If , through the fertility of his invention , his language naturally becomes diffuse , let him guard against that kind of obscurity , which is the effect of involving the sense in a cloud of words ...
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... leave us , we flatter ourselves that we leave them . It is as great a point of wisdom to hide ignorance , as to discover knowledge . Pitch upon that course of life which is the most excellent , and habit will render it the most ...
... leave us , we flatter ourselves that we leave them . It is as great a point of wisdom to hide ignorance , as to discover knowledge . Pitch upon that course of life which is the most excellent , and habit will render it the most ...
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... Leave not a rack behind ! We are such stuff As dreams are made of , and our little life Is rounded with a sleep . Our indiscretion sometimes serves us well , When our deep plots do fail ; and that should teach us , There's a divinity ...
... Leave not a rack behind ! We are such stuff As dreams are made of , and our little life Is rounded with a sleep . Our indiscretion sometimes serves us well , When our deep plots do fail ; and that should teach us , There's a divinity ...
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