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 |
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... hear perfons read with an improper emphasis , or with no emphasis at all , that is with a ftupid mono- tony . Much study and pains are neceffary in acquiring the habit of just and forcible pronun- ciation ; and it can only be the effect ...
... hear perfons read with an improper emphasis , or with no emphasis at all , that is with a ftupid mono- tony . Much study and pains are neceffary in acquiring the habit of just and forcible pronun- ciation ; and it can only be the effect ...
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... hear over their heads . HE faid he had come last from Spain , where he had been from the furtheft borders of Franconia ; and had got fo far on his return home , when his afs died . Every one seemed defirous to know what business could ...
... hear over their heads . HE faid he had come last from Spain , where he had been from the furtheft borders of Franconia ; and had got fo far on his return home , when his afs died . Every one seemed defirous to know what business could ...
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... hear them more distinctly — ' Tis Maria ; said the postillion , obferving I was liftening - Poor Maria , continued he , ( leaning his body on one fide to let me fee her , for he was in a line be- tween us ) is fitting upon a bank ...
... hear them more distinctly — ' Tis Maria ; said the postillion , obferving I was liftening - Poor Maria , continued he , ( leaning his body on one fide to let me fee her , for he was in a line be- tween us ) is fitting upon a bank ...
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... hear thy forrow from thy own lipsbut I was deceived ; for that moment she took her pipe , and told me such a tale of woe with it , that I rose up , and with broken and irregular fteps walked foftly to my chaife . W SECOND PAR T. HEN we ...
... hear thy forrow from thy own lipsbut I was deceived ; for that moment she took her pipe , and told me such a tale of woe with it , that I rose up , and with broken and irregular fteps walked foftly to my chaife . W SECOND PAR T. HEN we ...
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... hears appall'd , with deeply troubled thought And yet not always on the guilty head Defcends the fated flash . Young CELADON And his AMELIA were a matchless pair ; With equal virtue form'd , and equal grace ; The fame , diftinguifh'd by ...
... hears appall'd , with deeply troubled thought And yet not always on the guilty head Defcends the fated flash . Young CELADON And his AMELIA were a matchless pair ; With equal virtue form'd , and equal grace ; The fame , diftinguifh'd by ...
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