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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... grace of utterance ; and to make choice of fuch a courfe of practical leffons , as fhall give the speaker an opportunity of exercising himself in each branch of elocution ; all this must be the effect of attention and labour ; and in ...
... grace of utterance ; and to make choice of fuch a courfe of practical leffons , as fhall give the speaker an opportunity of exercising himself in each branch of elocution ; all this must be the effect of attention and labour ; and in ...
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... grace of mortal men , Which we more hunt for than the grace of God ! Who builds his hope in th ' air of men's fair looks , Lives like a drunken failor on a mast , Ready with every nod to tumble down Into the fatal bowels of the deep ...
... grace of mortal men , Which we more hunt for than the grace of God ! Who builds his hope in th ' air of men's fair looks , Lives like a drunken failor on a mast , Ready with every nod to tumble down Into the fatal bowels of the deep ...
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... grace ; The fame , diftinguish'd by their fex alone : Her's the mild luftre of the blooming morn , And his the radiance of the rifen day . They lov'd : but fuch their guilelefs paffion was , As in the dawn of time inform'd the heart Of ...
... grace ; The fame , diftinguish'd by their fex alone : Her's the mild luftre of the blooming morn , And his the radiance of the rifen day . They lov'd : but fuch their guilelefs paffion was , As in the dawn of time inform'd the heart Of ...
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... . In colour , form , expreffion , and in grace , She fhone all - perfect ; while each pleasing art , And each foft virtue that the sex adorns , Adorn'a Adorn'd the woman . My imperfect , strain Can ill 54 BOOK II . NARRATIVE PIECES .
... . In colour , form , expreffion , and in grace , She fhone all - perfect ; while each pleasing art , And each foft virtue that the sex adorns , Adorn'a Adorn'd the woman . My imperfect , strain Can ill 54 BOOK II . NARRATIVE PIECES .
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... More than pertains to feats of broils and battle ; And therefore little fhall I grace my cause , In fpeaking for myfelf . Yet , by your patience , I will a round unvarnish'd tale deliver , Of my I will CHAP . XIX . 59 NARRATIVE PIECES .
... More than pertains to feats of broils and battle ; And therefore little fhall I grace my cause , In fpeaking for myfelf . Yet , by your patience , I will a round unvarnish'd tale deliver , Of my I will CHAP . XIX . 59 NARRATIVE PIECES .
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