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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... these two characters , and with the correct- nefs and precifion of true learning combine the eafe and elegance of genteel life . An attention to fuch models , and a free intercourfe with the polite world , are the best guards against ...
... these two characters , and with the correct- nefs and precifion of true learning combine the eafe and elegance of genteel life . An attention to fuch models , and a free intercourfe with the polite world , are the best guards against ...
Página xv
... These faults , and all others of the fame nature , must be corrected in the pronunciation of a gen- tleman , who is fuppofed to have feen too much of the world , to retain the peculiarities of the diftrict in which he was born . RULE V ...
... These faults , and all others of the fame nature , must be corrected in the pronunciation of a gen- tleman , who is fuppofed to have feen too much of the world , to retain the peculiarities of the diftrict in which he was born . RULE V ...
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... these must be expreffed in reading , by a very distinct emphasis on each part of the oppofition . The following inftances are of this kind : ANGER may glance into the breast of a wife man ; but refts only in the bofom of fools . An ...
... these must be expreffed in reading , by a very distinct emphasis on each part of the oppofition . The following inftances are of this kind : ANGER may glance into the breast of a wife man ; but refts only in the bofom of fools . An ...
Página xix
... These faults are strong- ly characterised in Churchill's cenfure of Moffop . WITH ftudied improprieties of fpeech He foars beyond the hackney critic's reach . To epithets allots emphatic state , Whilft principals , ungrac'd , like ...
... These faults are strong- ly characterised in Churchill's cenfure of Moffop . WITH ftudied improprieties of fpeech He foars beyond the hackney critic's reach . To epithets allots emphatic state , Whilft principals , ungrac'd , like ...
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... these melodious speakers may no longer lie open to the sarcasm ; Do you read or fing ? if you fing , you fing very ill . Se- riously , it is much to be wondered at , that this kind of reading , which has fo little merit confi- dered as ...
... these melodious speakers may no longer lie open to the sarcasm ; Do you read or fing ? if you fing , you fing very ill . Se- riously , it is much to be wondered at , that this kind of reading , which has fo little merit confi- dered as ...
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