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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... rest . This variety of sound , which is called Accent , serves to distinguish from each other the words of which a sentence is composed : without it , the ear would perceive nothing but an unmeaning succession of detached syllables ...
... rest . This variety of sound , which is called Accent , serves to distinguish from each other the words of which a sentence is composed : without it , the ear would perceive nothing but an unmeaning succession of detached syllables ...
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... rest ; and are , on this account , distinguished by the forcible manner in which they are uttered . Thus in the sentence , Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind , and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity * ; the ...
... rest ; and are , on this account , distinguished by the forcible manner in which they are uttered . Thus in the sentence , Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind , and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity * ; the ...
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... 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 chide , speaks worse than he thinks . Better to reign in Hell ...
... 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 chide , speaks worse than he thinks . Better to reign in Hell ...
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... rest or æsura . In the application of the Rules of Elocution to practice , in order to acquire a just and graceful elocution , it will be ne- cessary to go through a regular course of exercises ; begin- ning with such as are more easy ...
... rest or æsura . In the application of the Rules of Elocution to practice , in order to acquire a just and graceful elocution , it will be ne- cessary to go through a regular course of exercises ; begin- ning with such as are more easy ...
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... rest ; and all should unite to produce one re- gular whole . Denique sit quidvis simplex duntaxat et unum . A thought may be just ; a description may be beautiful ; a sentiment may be pathetic ; and yet , not naturally arising from the ...
... rest ; and all should unite to produce one re- gular whole . Denique sit quidvis simplex duntaxat et unum . A thought may be just ; a description may be beautiful ; a sentiment may be pathetic ; and yet , not naturally arising from the ...
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