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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The closing pause must not be confounded with that fall of the voice or cadence , with which many readers uniformly finish a sentence . Nothing can be more destructive of all propriety and energy tliari this habit .
The closing pause must not be confounded with that fall of the voice or cadence , with which many readers uniformly finish a sentence . Nothing can be more destructive of all propriety and energy tliari this habit .
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manner in which we relate a story , or maintain an argument , in conversation , will show , that it is more frequently proper to raise the voice , than to fall it , at the end of a sentence . Some sentences are so constructed , that the ...
manner in which we relate a story , or maintain an argument , in conversation , will show , that it is more frequently proper to raise the voice , than to fall it , at the end of a sentence . Some sentences are so constructed , that the ...
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He that contemnetli small things shall fall by little and little . A rich mau beginning to fall is held up of his friends ; but a poor man being down is thrust away by his friends : when a rich man is fallen , he hath many helpers ...
He that contemnetli small things shall fall by little and little . A rich mau beginning to fall is held up of his friends ; but a poor man being down is thrust away by his friends : when a rich man is fallen , he hath many helpers ...
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So it falls out , That what we Irave we prize not to the worth , While we enjoy it ; but being lack'd and lost , Why then we reck the value ; then we find The virtue , that possession would not show us , While it was ours .
So it falls out , That what we Irave we prize not to the worth , While we enjoy it ; but being lack'd and lost , Why then we reck the value ; then we find The virtue , that possession would not show us , While it was ours .
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... the same —when observing a little rust which it had contracted near the point , he brought it near his eye , and bending his head down over it - I think I saw a tear fall upon the place : I could not be deceived by what followed .
... the same —when observing a little rust which it had contracted near the point , he brought it near his eye , and bending his head down over it - I think I saw a tear fall upon the place : I could not be deceived by what followed .
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appear arms army bear better cause CHAP consider continued death desire earth equal ev'ry eyes fair fall father fear feel fool fortune give Gods grace hand happy hath head hear heard heart Heav'n hold honour hope hour human it's kind king laws leave light live look lord means mind nature never night o'er once pain pass passion peace perfection person pleasure poor pow'r praise present reason rest round sense serve side soon soul sound speak spirit stand sweet taste tears tell thee thing thou thought thousand true truth turn uncle virtue voice whole winds wise wish young youth
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| Título | 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 |
| Autor | William Enfield |
| Editora | F.C. and J. Rivington, 1815 |
| Original de | Universidade do Estado de Ohio |
| Digitalizado | 30 Set 2014 |
| Número de páginas | 346 páginas |
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