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. By William Enfield ... A New Edition, Corrected ...J. Johnson, 1782 - 405 páginas |
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... than he thinks . BETTER to reign in hell , than ferve in heaven . He rais'd a mortal to the skies ; She brought an angel down . EMPHASIS EMPHASIS likewife ferves to express some par- ticular meaning not ELOCUTION . xvii.
... than he thinks . BETTER to reign in hell , than ferve in heaven . He rais'd a mortal to the skies ; She brought an angel down . EMPHASIS EMPHASIS likewife ferves to express some par- ticular meaning not ELOCUTION . xvii.
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... SHE , IT , AND , WE , YE , THEY , fright the foul . EMPHASIS is often deftroyed by an injudicious attempt to read melodiously . Agreeable inflexions and eafy variations of the voice , as far as they a- rife from , or are confiftent with ...
... SHE , IT , AND , WE , YE , THEY , fright the foul . EMPHASIS is often deftroyed by an injudicious attempt to read melodiously . Agreeable inflexions and eafy variations of the voice , as far as they a- rife from , or are confiftent with ...
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... she has fometimes made a fool , but a coxcomb is always of his own making . It is the infirmity of little minds to be taken with every appearance , and dazzled with every thing that sparkles ; but great minds have but little admiration ...
... she has fometimes made a fool , but a coxcomb is always of his own making . It is the infirmity of little minds to be taken with every appearance , and dazzled with every thing that sparkles ; but great minds have but little admiration ...
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... she said , that their separation should be attended with the utter ruin of all three . But Health was of too gay a difpofition to regard the councils of Labour : fhe fuffered herself to be debauched by Intemperance , and at laft died in ...
... she said , that their separation should be attended with the utter ruin of all three . But Health was of too gay a difpofition to regard the councils of Labour : fhe fuffered herself to be debauched by Intemperance , and at laft died in ...
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... she had helped with an artificial white and red ; and endeavoured to appear more graceful than ordinary in her mien , by a mixture mixture of affectation in all her geftures . She had CHAP . VII . 27 NARRATIVE PIECES .
... she had helped with an artificial white and red ; and endeavoured to appear more graceful than ordinary in her mien , by a mixture mixture of affectation in all her geftures . She had CHAP . VII . 27 NARRATIVE PIECES .
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