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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... hands are to be em- ployed in expreffing the paffions , maft , from the nature of the thing , be exceedingly imperfect , and confequently ineffectual . B • UPON this head , I fhall therefore only lay down the following general precept ...
... hands are to be em- ployed in expreffing the paffions , maft , from the nature of the thing , be exceedingly imperfect , and confequently ineffectual . B • UPON this head , I fhall therefore only lay down the following general precept ...
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... hands , and be pleased " one knows not why , and cares not wherefore ” —there are , unquestionably , in nature , certain characters , by which works of true genius and taste may be distin- guished from inferior productions . To be able ...
... hands , and be pleased " one knows not why , and cares not wherefore ” —there are , unquestionably , in nature , certain characters , by which works of true genius and taste may be distin- guished from inferior productions . To be able ...
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... hand , and fits upon our lips , and is ready to drop out before we are aware : whereas a lie is troublesome , and fets a man's invention upon the rack ; and one trick needs a great many more to make it good . THE pleasure , which ...
... hand , and fits upon our lips , and is ready to drop out before we are aware : whereas a lie is troublesome , and fets a man's invention upon the rack ; and one trick needs a great many more to make it good . THE pleasure , which ...
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... in the world in skilful hands ; in un- fkilful , moft mischievous . A MAN fhould never be afhamed to own he has been in the the wrong ; which is but saying in other words 10 BOOK I. SELECT SENTENCES . Elegy written in a Country Church-Yard.
... in the world in skilful hands ; in un- fkilful , moft mischievous . A MAN fhould never be afhamed to own he has been in the the wrong ; which is but saying in other words 10 BOOK I. SELECT SENTENCES . Elegy written in a Country Church-Yard.
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... hand By thinking on the frofty Caucafus ? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bear imagination of a feast ? Or wallow naked in December snow By thinking on fantastic fummer's heat ? Oh , no ! the apprehenfion of the good Gives but ...
... hand By thinking on the frofty Caucafus ? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bear imagination of a feast ? Or wallow naked in December snow By thinking on fantastic fummer's heat ? Oh , no ! the apprehenfion of the good Gives but ...
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