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 is Prefixed an Essay on Elocution, Also an Essay on Reading Works of Tastebooksellers, 1801 - 300 páginas |
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Página xvii
... She brought an angel down . WHEN any term , or phrafe , is ufed to exprefs fome par- ticular meaning , not obviously arifing from the words , it fhould be marked by a ftrong emphafis ; as , TO BE , contents his natural defire . Sir ...
... She brought an angel down . WHEN any term , or phrafe , is ufed to exprefs fome par- ticular meaning , not obviously arifing from the words , it fhould be marked by a ftrong emphafis ; as , TO BE , contents his natural defire . Sir ...
Página xix
... SHE , IT , AND , WE , YE , THEY , fright the foul . EMPHASIS is often deftroyed by an injudicious attempt to read melodioufly . In reading verfe , this fault fome- times arifes from a falfe notion of the neceffity of pre- ferving an ...
... SHE , IT , AND , WE , YE , THEY , fright the foul . EMPHASIS is often deftroyed by an injudicious attempt to read melodioufly . In reading verfe , this fault fome- times arifes from a falfe notion of the neceffity of pre- ferving an ...
Página xxxi
... she rages with Æfchylus , or weeps with Sophocles , or mora- lizes with Euripides , never ceases to wear a dignified and interesting aspect . Comedy , in the natural and eafy drefs , in which , after the best Greek models , fhe is ...
... she rages with Æfchylus , or weeps with Sophocles , or mora- lizes with Euripides , never ceases to wear a dignified and interesting aspect . Comedy , in the natural and eafy drefs , in which , after the best Greek models , fhe is ...
Página xxxvi
... she may exercise her powers ; " a general acquaintance with things , as well as words , is neceffary , in order to form a true estimate of the merit of her productions . The beauties of poetry cannot be completely relished , without a ...
... she may exercise her powers ; " a general acquaintance with things , as well as words , is neceffary , in order to form a true estimate of the merit of her productions . The beauties of poetry cannot be completely relished , without a ...
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... she suffered herself to be debauched by Intem- perance , and at last died in child - birth of Difeafe . Content- ment , in the absence of her fifter , gave herself up to the enticements of Sloth , and was never heard of after : while ...
... she suffered herself to be debauched by Intem- perance , and at last died in child - birth of Difeafe . Content- ment , in the absence of her fifter , gave herself up to the enticements of Sloth , and was never heard of after : while ...
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