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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... speech expreffive of ftrong paffion ( for example , * Shakspeare's fpeech of Hamlet to the ghost ) in the fame unimpaffioned * Book viii . C. 28 . manner shanner in which he would read an ordinary article of XXX ESSAY ON.
... speech expreffive of ftrong paffion ( for example , * Shakspeare's fpeech of Hamlet to the ghost ) in the fame unimpaffioned * Book viii . C. 28 . manner shanner in which he would read an ordinary article of XXX ESSAY ON.
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... fame general principles , and rules of Elocution , are applicable to Profe and to Verfe . The accent and general emphafis fhould be the fame in both : and where the verfification is correct , the melody will fufficiently appear ...
... fame general principles , and rules of Elocution , are applicable to Profe and to Verfe . The accent and general emphafis fhould be the fame in both : and where the verfification is correct , the melody will fufficiently appear ...
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... fame ftrict and literal fenfe in which the term is applied to a picture ; because words are not natural copies , but arbitrary figns of things : but it produces an effect upon the imagination and feelings of the reader , fimilar to that ...
... fame ftrict and literal fenfe in which the term is applied to a picture ; because words are not natural copies , but arbitrary figns of things : but it produces an effect upon the imagination and feelings of the reader , fimilar to that ...
Page xxxix
... fame school ; and fometimes we find them copying , with too much fervility , the works of other artists . But there were few among them , who were not able to collect , from the common magazine of nature , ftores before unnoticed , and ...
... fame school ; and fometimes we find them copying , with too much fervility , the works of other artists . But there were few among them , who were not able to collect , from the common magazine of nature , ftores before unnoticed , and ...
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... fame : for , on questions of taste and feeling , the general result of public opinion is feldom wrong . THE fecond object of attention in reading works of taste , that of forming a judgment concerning their merit , requires , befides ...
... fame : for , on questions of taste and feeling , the general result of public opinion is feldom wrong . THE fecond object of attention in reading works of taste , that of forming a judgment concerning their merit , requires , befides ...
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