Elegant Extracts, Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose: Selected for the Improvement of Young Persons ; Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in PoetryJ. Johnson, 1808 - 1120 pages An anthology of prose passages primarily from Greek, Roman, and English authors. |
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Page viii
... effect of a just and graceful delivery will , in every part of a subject , be found of high importance for commanding at- tention , and enforcing what is spoken . First , let us consider Emphasis ; by this is meant a stronger and fuller ...
... effect of a just and graceful delivery will , in every part of a subject , be found of high importance for commanding at- tention , and enforcing what is spoken . First , let us consider Emphasis ; by this is meant a stronger and fuller ...
Page ix
... effect , is just the same with using no such distinction at all . Next to emphasis , the Pauses in speak- ing demand attention . These are of two kinds ; first , emphatical pauses ; and next , such as mark the distinctions of sense . An ...
... effect , is just the same with using no such distinction at all . Next to emphasis , the Pauses in speak- ing demand attention . These are of two kinds ; first , emphatical pauses ; and next , such as mark the distinctions of sense . An ...
Page xi
... effect would be much worse , if the sense were sacrificed to the sound . For instance , in the following line of Milton , -What in me is dark , Illumine ; what is low , raise and support , I sit , with sad civility I read ; parate " sad ...
... effect would be much worse , if the sense were sacrificed to the sound . For instance , in the following line of Milton , -What in me is dark , Illumine ; what is low , raise and support , I sit , with sad civility I read ; parate " sad ...
Page xiv
... effect is very little inferior , a forcible and persuasive manner , is within the power of most persons ; if they will only unlearn false and corrupt habits ; if they will allow themselves to follow nature , and will speak in public ...
... effect is very little inferior , a forcible and persuasive manner , is within the power of most persons ; if they will only unlearn false and corrupt habits ; if they will allow themselves to follow nature , and will speak in public ...
Page xv
... effect . It may entertain and amuse ; but it is viewed as artifice , as trick , as the play only of speech ; and , viewed in this light , whom can it persuade ? We even read a book with more pleasure , when we think favourably of its ...
... effect . It may entertain and amuse ; but it is viewed as artifice , as trick , as the play only of speech ; and , viewed in this light , whom can it persuade ? We even read a book with more pleasure , when we think favourably of its ...
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