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 SpeakingJ. Johnson, 1792 - 436 páginas |
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... variations to the voice , which nature requires : and it is for want of this previous study , more perhaps than from any other cause , Book iii . Chap . 2 . that that we so often hear perfons read with an improper ELOCUTION . xxi CHAP.
... variations to the voice , which nature requires : and it is for want of this previous study , more perhaps than from any other cause , Book iii . Chap . 2 . that that we so often hear perfons read with an improper ELOCUTION . xxi CHAP.
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... hear perfons read with an improper em- phafis , or with no emphafis at all , that is , with a ftupid monotony . Much study and pains are neceffary in acquir- ing the habit of just and forcible pronunciation ; and it can only be the ...
... hear perfons read with an improper em- phafis , or with no emphafis at all , that is , with a ftupid monotony . Much study and pains are neceffary in acquir- ing the habit of just and forcible pronunciation ; and it can only be the ...
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... hear over their heads . HE faid he had come last from Spain , where he had been from the furtheft borders of Franconia ; and had got so far on his return home , when his afs died . Every one seemed defirous to know what bufinefs could ...
... hear over their heads . HE faid he had come last from Spain , where he had been from the furtheft borders of Franconia ; and had got so far on his return home , when his afs died . Every one seemed defirous to know what bufinefs could ...
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... hear them more diftinctly - Tis Maria ; faid the poftillion , obferving I was liftening - Poor Maria , continued he , ( leaning his body on one fide to let me fee her , for he was in a line be- tween us ) is fitting upon a bank playing ...
... hear them more diftinctly - Tis Maria ; faid the poftillion , obferving I was liftening - Poor Maria , continued he , ( leaning his body on one fide to let me fee her , for he was in a line be- tween us ) is fitting upon a bank playing ...
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... hear thy forrows from thy own lipsbut I was deceived ; for that moment she took her pipe , and told me fuch a tale of woe with it , that I rofe up , and with broken and irregular fteps walked foftly to my chaife . W a SECOND PART . HEN ...
... hear thy forrows from thy own lipsbut I was deceived ; for that moment she took her pipe , and told me fuch a tale of woe with it , that I rofe up , and with broken and irregular fteps walked foftly to my chaife . W a SECOND PART . HEN ...
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