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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... still lower cadence of the voice . But before a speaker can be able to 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 ...
... still lower cadence of the voice . But before a speaker can be able to 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 ...
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... still hopes , as fhe is fenfible for fhort intervals , that the Virgin at laft will restore her to herself ; but her parents , who know her beft , are hopeless upon that score , and think her fenfes are loft for ever . D. 6 As As the ...
... still hopes , as fhe is fenfible for fhort intervals , that the Virgin at laft will restore her to herself ; but her parents , who know her beft , are hopeless upon that score , and think her fenfes are loft for ever . D. 6 As As the ...
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... to each a dearer felf ; Supremely happy in th ' awaken'd power Cf giving joy . Alone , amid the fhades , Still in harmonious intercourfe they liv'd The The rural day , and talk'd the flowing heart , 452 ( Book II , NARRATIVE PIECES .
... to each a dearer felf ; Supremely happy in th ' awaken'd power Cf giving joy . Alone , amid the fhades , Still in harmonious intercourfe they liv'd The The rural day , and talk'd the flowing heart , 452 ( Book II , NARRATIVE PIECES .
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... Still bade eternal Eden fmile around . Prefaging inftant fate her bofom heav'd Unwonted fighs ; and stealing oft a look Of the big gloom , on CELADON her eye Fell tearful , wetting her difordered cheek . In vain affuring love , and ...
... Still bade eternal Eden fmile around . Prefaging inftant fate her bofom heav'd Unwonted fighs ; and stealing oft a look Of the big gloom , on CELADON her eye Fell tearful , wetting her difordered cheek . In vain affuring love , and ...
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... Still queftion'd me the ftory of my life , From year to year ; the battles , fieges , fortunes That I have past . I ran it through , ev'n from my boyish days , To th ' very moment that he bade me tell it . Wherein I spoke of most ...
... Still queftion'd me the ftory of my life , From year to year ; the battles , fieges , fortunes That I have past . I ran it through , ev'n from my boyish days , To th ' very moment that he bade me tell it . Wherein I spoke of most ...
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