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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... Pleasure and Pain . ibid . 23 World . 25 V. Labour . VI . The old Man and his Afs . ibid . 26 VII . Hercules's Choice . Tatler . 27 Mrs. Barbauld . 30 VIII . Pity . IX . The Dead Afs . Sterne . 32 X. The Sword . ibid . 34 XI . Maria ...
... Pleasure and Pain . ibid . 23 World . 25 V. Labour . VI . The old Man and his Afs . ibid . 26 VII . Hercules's Choice . Tatler . 27 Mrs. Barbauld . 30 VIII . Pity . IX . The Dead Afs . Sterne . 32 X. The Sword . ibid . 34 XI . Maria ...
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... Pleasure . XXV . On Tafte . Young . 112 Akenfide . 113 ibid . 117 XXVI . The Page Akenfide . 119 CHAP . XXVI . The Pleasures vi CONTENTS .
... Pleasure . XXV . On Tafte . Young . 112 Akenfide . 113 ibid . 117 XXVI . The Page Akenfide . 119 CHAP . XXVI . The Pleasures vi CONTENTS .
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... Pleasures arifing from a cultivated Imagination . BOOK IV . ARGUMENTATIVE PIECES . CHAP . I. On Anger . - II . Virtue our highest Interest . III . The fame Subject . Holland . 122 Harris . 128 ibid . 130 IV . On the Immortality of the ...
... Pleasures arifing from a cultivated Imagination . BOOK IV . ARGUMENTATIVE PIECES . CHAP . I. On Anger . - II . Virtue our highest Interest . III . The fame Subject . Holland . 122 Harris . 128 ibid . 130 IV . On the Immortality of the ...
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... Mrs. Barbauld . 295 XXVII . Domeftic Love and Happiness . XXVIII . The Pleasures of Retirementt ibid . 299 Themjon . 297 XXIX . Genius . Akenfide . 302 XXX . Greatness CHAP . XXX . Greatness . XXXI . Novelty . CONTENTS . ix.
... Mrs. Barbauld . 295 XXVII . Domeftic Love and Happiness . XXVIII . The Pleasures of Retirementt ibid . 299 Themjon . 297 XXIX . Genius . Akenfide . 302 XXX . Greatness CHAP . XXX . Greatness . XXXI . Novelty . CONTENTS . ix.
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... voice . To acquire the power of changing the key on which you fpeak at pleasure , accuftom yourself to pitch your voice in different keys , from the lowest B4 to to the highest notes you can command . Many of ELOCUTION .: xix.
... voice . To acquire the power of changing the key on which you fpeak at pleasure , accuftom yourself to pitch your voice in different keys , from the lowest B4 to to the highest notes you can command . Many of ELOCUTION .: xix.
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