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 W. Enfield, ...A. Millar, W. Law, and R. Cater, 1794 - 405 pages |
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Page xxiv
... She brought an angel down . EMPHASIS likewife ferves to exprefs fome particu lar meaning not immediately arifing from the words , but depending upon the intention of the speaker , or fome incidental circumftance . The following fhort ...
... She brought an angel down . EMPHASIS likewife ferves to exprefs fome particu lar meaning not immediately arifing from the words , but depending upon the intention of the speaker , or fome incidental circumftance . The following fhort ...
Page xxv
... SHE , IT , AND , WE , YE , THEY , fright the foul . EMPHASIS is often deftroyed by an injudicious at- tempt to read melodioufly . Agreeable inflexions and eafy variations of the voice , as far as they arise from , or are confiftent with ...
... SHE , IT , AND , WE , YE , THEY , fright the foul . EMPHASIS is often deftroyed by an injudicious at- tempt to read melodioufly . Agreeable inflexions and eafy variations of the voice , as far as they arise from , or are confiftent with ...
Page 26
... she said , that their feparation should be attended with the utter ruin of all three . But Health was of too gay a difpofition to regard the counfels of Labour : she suffered herself to be debauched by Intemperance , and at laft died in ...
... she said , that their feparation should be attended with the utter ruin of all three . But Health was of too gay a difpofition to regard the counfels of Labour : she suffered herself to be debauched by Intemperance , and at laft died in ...
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... she had helped with an artificial white and red ; and endeavoured to appear more graceful than ordinary in her mien , by a mixture of affectation in all her geftures , D. geftures . She had a wonderful confidence and affurance in CHAP ...
... she had helped with an artificial white and red ; and endeavoured to appear more graceful than ordinary in her mien , by a mixture of affectation in all her geftures , D. geftures . She had a wonderful confidence and affurance in CHAP ...
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... She had a wonderful confidence and affurance in her looks , and all the variety of colours in her dress , that she thought were the most proper to fhew her complexion to ad- vantage . She caft her eyes upon herself , then turned them on ...
... She had a wonderful confidence and affurance in her looks , and all the variety of colours in her dress , that she thought were the most proper to fhew her complexion to ad- vantage . She caft her eyes upon herself , then turned them on ...
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affurance againſt army Balaam becauſe beſt bofom breaft Brutus Cæfar cauſe CHAP confider dæmons defire eternal fafe faid fame father fecure feems fenfe ferve fervice fhall fhew fide fince firft firſt fmile fome fomething fool foon foul fpeaking ftate ftill fubject fuch fure happineſs happy hath heart Heav'n himſelf honour houſe intereft itſelf juft juſt king laft laſt lefs lord meaſures mind moft moſt Mufe muft muſt myſelf nature neceffary never o'er obferve occafion ourſelves paffion pafs pain perfon pleaſe pleaſure poffible poor pow'r praiſe prefent raiſe reaſon reft rife ſay Scythians ſee ſhall ſhe ſhould SIR JOHN ſmall ſpeak ſpirit ſpreads ſtand ſtate ſtep STERL ſtill ſuch Syphax tears thee thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe thou thouſand thro uncle Toby uſe virtue whofe whoſe wife wiſdom yourſelf youth