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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... is more frequently proper to raise the voice than to fall it at the end of a sentence . Interrogatives , where the speaker seems to expect an anfwer , fhould al- moft most always be elevated at the close , with a * xxii AN ESSAY ON.
... is more frequently proper to raise the voice than to fall it at the end of a sentence . Interrogatives , where the speaker seems to expect an anfwer , fhould al- moft most always be elevated at the close , with a * xxii AN ESSAY ON.
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... fall his voice with pro- priety and judgment at the clofe of a fentence , he must be able to keep it from falling , and to raise it with all the variation which the fenfe requires . The best method of correcting a uniform cadence , is ...
... fall his voice with pro- priety and judgment at the clofe of a fentence , he must be able to keep it from falling , and to raise it with all the variation which the fenfe requires . The best method of correcting a uniform cadence , is ...
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... fall by little and little . A RICH man beginning to fall is held up of his friends ; but a poor man being down is thrust away by his friends ; when a rich man is fallen he hath many helpers ; he fpeak- eth things not to be spoken , and ...
... fall by little and little . A RICH man beginning to fall is held up of his friends ; but a poor man being down is thrust away by his friends ; when a rich man is fallen he hath many helpers ; he fpeak- eth things not to be spoken , and ...
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... falls out , dear friends , That what we have we prize not to the worth , Whiles we enjoy it ; but being lack'd and loft , Why then we wreak the value ; then we find C The The virtue that poffeffion would not shew us Whilft it CHAP . IX ...
... falls out , dear friends , That what we have we prize not to the worth , Whiles we enjoy it ; but being lack'd and loft , Why then we wreak the value ; then we find C The The virtue that poffeffion would not shew us Whilft it CHAP . IX ...
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... falling ill of the fame diftemper , he was afraid of being bereft of them all , and made a vow , if Heaven would not take him from him alfo , he would go in gratitude to St. Jago in Spain . WHEN the mourner got thus far in his ftory ...
... falling ill of the fame diftemper , he was afraid of being bereft of them all , and made a vow , if Heaven would not take him from him alfo , he would go in gratitude to St. Jago in Spain . WHEN the mourner got thus far in his ftory ...
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