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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... thoughts and sentiments , either from niemory , or immediate conception : for , beside that there is an arti- ficial uniformity , which almost always distinguishes reading from speaking ; the fixed posture , and the bending of the head ...
... thoughts and sentiments , either from niemory , or immediate conception : for , beside that there is an arti- ficial uniformity , which almost always distinguishes reading from speaking ; the fixed posture , and the bending of the head ...
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... thought in itself a trifling em- ployment ; yet , as an instrument for discovering the true meaning , in order to perceive the excellencies or defects , and thus ascertain the merit of a writer , it must be acknowledged to be a useful ...
... thought in itself a trifling em- ployment ; yet , as an instrument for discovering the true meaning , in order to perceive the excellencies or defects , and thus ascertain the merit of a writer , it must be acknowledged to be a useful ...
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... . Whatever ridi- cule some witty writers may have cast upon this kind of ad- measurement : -however delightful it may be thought , to " give up the reins of one's imagination into an xxxiv ON READING WORKS OF TASTE .
... . Whatever ridi- cule some witty writers may have cast upon this kind of ad- measurement : -however delightful it may be thought , to " give up the reins of one's imagination into an xxxiv ON READING WORKS OF TASTE .
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... Thought , Arrangement , and Ex- pression . The ESSENTIAL characters of good writing , respecting the THOUGHTS , ideas , or sentiments , are , that they be con- sonant to nature , clearly conceived , agreeably diversified , re- gularly ...
... Thought , Arrangement , and Ex- pression . The ESSENTIAL characters of good writing , respecting the THOUGHTS , ideas , or sentiments , are , that they be con- sonant to nature , clearly conceived , agreeably diversified , re- gularly ...
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... thought , or whose impetuosity will not permit him to separate his ideas from one another before he clothes them in language , must be obscure . The image reflected from the mirror cannot be more perfect than the original ob- ject . He ...
... thought , or whose impetuosity will not permit him to separate his ideas from one another before he clothes them in language , must be obscure . The image reflected from the mirror cannot be more perfect than the original ob- ject . He ...
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