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 xxi
... means be fufficient to attend to the points used in printing ; for these are far from marking all the paufes which ought to be made in fpeaking . A mechanical attention to these refting - places has perhaps been one caufe of monotony ...
... means be fufficient to attend to the points used in printing ; for these are far from marking all the paufes which ought to be made in fpeaking . A mechanical attention to these refting - places has perhaps been one caufe of monotony ...
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... mean time , provides entertainment for thofe who are dif pofed to laugh at folly , or indulge an honeft indignation . against vice , in the fmile of Horace , the grin of Lucian , and the frown of Juvenal . So , rich and various are the ...
... mean time , provides entertainment for thofe who are dif pofed to laugh at folly , or indulge an honeft indignation . against vice , in the fmile of Horace , the grin of Lucian , and the frown of Juvenal . So , rich and various are the ...
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... in contemplating the objects which , by means of a due choice and arrangement of words , are prefented before his imagination , and then proceeds to " to a critical examination of the degree of invention xxxiv ON READING.
... in contemplating the objects which , by means of a due choice and arrangement of words , are prefented before his imagination , and then proceeds to " to a critical examination of the degree of invention xxxiv ON READING.
Página xxxix
... mean , or moderate abilities . The field of nature lies equally open to all men but it is only the man whofe powers are vigorous and commanding , who can combine them with that di- verfity which is neceffary to produce a strong ...
... mean , or moderate abilities . The field of nature lies equally open to all men but it is only the man whofe powers are vigorous and commanding , who can combine them with that di- verfity which is neceffary to produce a strong ...
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... means of the powers of vision . Whatever is lofty , vast , or profound , whilft it fills the eye , expands the imagina- tion , and dilates the heart , and thus becomes a fource of pleasure . Who that , from Alpine heights , his lab'ring ...
... means of the powers of vision . Whatever is lofty , vast , or profound , whilft it fills the eye , expands the imagina- tion , and dilates the heart , and thus becomes a fource of pleasure . Who that , from Alpine heights , his lab'ring ...
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