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, Also an Essay on Reading Works of Tastebooksellers, 1801 - 300 pages |
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Page xxiii
... laft words require a ftronger emphasis than any of the preceding ; while others admit of being clofed with a foft and gentle found . Where there is nothing in the fenfe that requires the laft * found to be elevated or emphatical , an ...
... laft words require a ftronger emphasis than any of the preceding ; while others admit of being clofed with a foft and gentle found . Where there is nothing in the fenfe that requires the laft * found to be elevated or emphatical , an ...
Page xliii
... laft , but not the least extenfive field of criticism is EXPRESSION . HERE the firft quality to be confidered is PURITY . This confifts in fuch a choice of words , and fuch a gram- matical construction of fentences , as is confonant to ...
... laft , but not the least extenfive field of criticism is EXPRESSION . HERE the firft quality to be confidered is PURITY . This confifts in fuch a choice of words , and fuch a gram- matical construction of fentences , as is confonant to ...
Page 20
... laft , in order to an accommodation , they agreed upon this preliminary , that each of them fhould immediately difmifs his privy - coun- fellor . When things were thus far adjufted towards a peace , all other differences were foon ...
... laft , in order to an accommodation , they agreed upon this preliminary , that each of them fhould immediately difmifs his privy - coun- fellor . When things were thus far adjufted towards a peace , all other differences were foon ...
Page 23
... laft they arrived at the capital of the kingdom . At their entrance into the great city , the mo ther conjured her daughters never to lofe fight of her ; for it was the will of Jupiter , the faid , that their feparation fhould be ...
... laft they arrived at the capital of the kingdom . At their entrance into the great city , the mo ther conjured her daughters never to lofe fight of her ; for it was the will of Jupiter , the faid , that their feparation fhould be ...
Page 30
... laft from Spain , where he had been from the furtheft borders of Franconia : and had got fo far on his return home , when the afs died . Every one seemed defirous to know what business could have taken so old and poor a man fo far a ...
... laft from Spain , where he had been from the furtheft borders of Franconia : and had got fo far on his return home , when the afs died . Every one seemed defirous to know what business could have taken so old and poor a man fo far a ...
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