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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Página xxv
... himself excels , And ftands alone in indeclinables ; Conjunction , prepofition , adverb , join To stamp new vigour on the nervous line : In monofyllables his thunders roll , HE , SHE , IT , AND , WE , YE , THEY , fright the foul ...
... himself excels , And ftands alone in indeclinables ; Conjunction , prepofition , adverb , join To stamp new vigour on the nervous line : In monofyllables his thunders roll , HE , SHE , IT , AND , WE , YE , THEY , fright the foul ...
Página xxxiii
... himself , and as often as he has opportunity , under the correction of an inftructor or friend . He fhould alfo frequently recite compofitions from memory . This method has feveral advantages . It obliges the speaker to dwell upon the ...
... himself , and as often as he has opportunity , under the correction of an inftructor or friend . He fhould alfo frequently recite compofitions from memory . This method has feveral advantages . It obliges the speaker to dwell upon the ...
Página xxxiv
... eafily perfuade himself , when he appears before the public , to confider the business he * See Dean Swift's advice on this head , in his Letter to a young Clergyman . has has to perform in any other light , than as xxxiv ESSAY ON.
... eafily perfuade himself , when he appears before the public , to confider the business he * See Dean Swift's advice on this head , in his Letter to a young Clergyman . has has to perform in any other light , than as xxxiv ESSAY ON.
Página xxxv
... himself forth under the character of a Spouter , and to parade it in the ears of the vulgar with all the pomp of artificial eloquence , though the unfkilful may gaze and applaud , the judicious cannot but be grieved and difgufted ...
... himself forth under the character of a Spouter , and to parade it in the ears of the vulgar with all the pomp of artificial eloquence , though the unfkilful may gaze and applaud , the judicious cannot but be grieved and difgufted ...
Página xlix
... himself clearly understand his own meaning , can have no right to expect that his reader will understand it . Those writers are most liable to this fault , whose ambition , or vanity , outruns their genius . Affecting a degree of ...
... himself clearly understand his own meaning , can have no right to expect that his reader will understand it . Those writers are most liable to this fault , whose ambition , or vanity , outruns their genius . Affecting a degree of ...
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