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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... because they cannot walk : they bellow , becaufe they cannot fpeak . RULE III . Acquire a compass and variety in the height of your voice . THE HE monotony fo much complained of in public fpeak- ers , is chiefly owing to the neglect of ...
... because they cannot walk : they bellow , becaufe they cannot fpeak . RULE III . Acquire a compass and variety in the height of your voice . THE HE monotony fo much complained of in public fpeak- ers , is chiefly owing to the neglect of ...
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... their im- ages and illustrations , as to be capable of feeling the effect , and judging of the propriety , of the application . Many poems b 6 poems of the first merit appear obfcure , only because WORKS OF TASTE . XXXV.
... their im- ages and illustrations , as to be capable of feeling the effect , and judging of the propriety , of the application . Many poems b 6 poems of the first merit appear obfcure , only because WORKS OF TASTE . XXXV.
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... because the reader is not fufficiently acquainted with the ancient fables , historical facts , or natural objects , to which the poet refers . The mythology of the Greeks , however difficult it may be to explain it philofophically ...
... because the reader is not fufficiently acquainted with the ancient fables , historical facts , or natural objects , to which the poet refers . The mythology of the Greeks , however difficult it may be to explain it philofophically ...
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... because certain objects of fight are diftinguished by characters of beauty , and are adapted to excite emotions of complacence , thofe writers who re- present their fair forms , whether natural or moral , with the moft lively colouring ...
... because certain objects of fight are diftinguished by characters of beauty , and are adapted to excite emotions of complacence , thofe writers who re- present their fair forms , whether natural or moral , with the moft lively colouring ...
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... because we may happen to be so to - morrow . To mourn without measure is folly ; not to mourn at all , infenfibility . SOME would be thought to do great things , who are but tools and instruments ; like the fool who fancied he played ...
... because we may happen to be so to - morrow . To mourn without measure is folly ; not to mourn at all , infenfibility . SOME would be thought to do great things , who are but tools and instruments ; like the fool who fancied he played ...
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