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 xxviii
... fall it at the end of a sentence . Interro- gatives , where the speaker seems to expect an an- fwer , fhould almost always be elevated at the close , with a peculiar tone , to indicate that a question is afked . Some fentences are fo ...
... fall it at the end of a sentence . Interro- gatives , where the speaker seems to expect an an- fwer , fhould almost always be elevated at the close , with a peculiar tone , to indicate that a question is afked . Some fentences are fo ...
Page xxix
... fall his voice with pro- priety and judgment at the close of a sentence , he must be able to keep it from falling , and to raise it with all the variation which the fenfe requires . The beft method of correcting a uniform cadence , is ...
... fall his voice with pro- priety and judgment at the close of a sentence , he must be able to keep it from falling , and to raise it with all the variation which the fenfe requires . The beft method of correcting a uniform cadence , is ...
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... fall by little and little . - A rich man beginning to fall is held up of his friends : but a poor man being down , is thruft away by his friends . When a rich man is fallen he hath many helpers : he speak- eth things not to be spoken ...
... fall by little and little . - A rich man beginning to fall is held up of his friends : but a poor man being down , is thruft away by his friends . When a rich man is fallen he hath many helpers : he speak- eth things not to be spoken ...
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... falls out , dear friends , That what we have we prize not to the worth , Whiles we enjoy it ; but being lack'd and loft , Why then we wreak the value ; then we find The The virtue that poffeffion would not shew us Whilft it CHAP . IX ...
... falls out , dear friends , That what we have we prize not to the worth , Whiles we enjoy it ; but being lack'd and loft , Why then we wreak the value ; then we find The The virtue that poffeffion would not shew us Whilft it CHAP . IX ...
Page 33
... falling ill of the fame diftemper , he was afraid of being bereft of them all , and made a vow , if Heaven would not take him from him alfo , he would go in gratitude to St. Iago in Spain . WHEN the mourner got thus far in his story ...
... falling ill of the fame diftemper , he was afraid of being bereft of them all , and made a vow , if Heaven would not take him from him alfo , he would go in gratitude to St. Iago in Spain . WHEN the mourner got thus far in his story ...
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