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
... See the following work , Book VI . Chap . III . BEFORE a full paufe , it has been customary in reading to drop the voice in a uniform manner ; and this has been called the cadence . But furely nothing , can be more deftructive of all ...
... See the following work , Book VI . Chap . III . BEFORE a full paufe , it has been customary in reading to drop the voice in a uniform manner ; and this has been called the cadence . But furely nothing , can be more deftructive of all ...
Page xxxiii
... who is always exhi- biting his formal dancing - bow , and minuet - step . So , * See Dean Swift's advice on this head in his Letter to a young Clergyman . So , we admire the manly eloquence and noble ardour ELOCUTION . xxxiii.
... who is always exhi- biting his formal dancing - bow , and minuet - step . So , * See Dean Swift's advice on this head in his Letter to a young Clergyman . So , we admire the manly eloquence and noble ardour ELOCUTION . xxxiii.
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... Seeing that death , a neceffary end ,. Will come , when it will come . THERE is fome foul of goodness in things evil , Would men obfervingly distil it out , For our bad neighbour makes us early ftirrers : Which is both healthful , and ...
... Seeing that death , a neceffary end ,. Will come , when it will come . THERE is fome foul of goodness in things evil , Would men obfervingly distil it out , For our bad neighbour makes us early ftirrers : Which is both healthful , and ...
Page 28
... see how they liked her , and often looked on the figure the made in her own shadow . Upon her nearer approach to Hercules , the stepped before the other lady , who came forward with a regular composed carriage , and running up to him ...
... see how they liked her , and often looked on the figure the made in her own shadow . Upon her nearer approach to Hercules , the stepped before the other lady , who came forward with a regular composed carriage , and running up to him ...
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... see it depofited in the archieves of his house --and departed . THE Marquis and his whole family embarked the next day for Martinico , and in about nineteen or twenty years of fuccefsful application to bufinefs , with fome unlooked for ...
... see it depofited in the archieves of his house --and departed . THE Marquis and his whole family embarked the next day for Martinico , and in about nineteen or twenty years of fuccefsful application to bufinefs , with fome unlooked for ...
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