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 60
... hear Would Defdemona feriously incline . But ftill the hoúfe - affairs would draw her hence , Which ever as she could with hafte despatch , She'd come again , and with a greedy ear Devour up my difcourfe : which I obferving , Took once ...
... hear Would Defdemona feriously incline . But ftill the hoúfe - affairs would draw her hence , Which ever as she could with hafte despatch , She'd come again , and with a greedy ear Devour up my difcourfe : which I obferving , Took once ...
Page 76
... hear a jeft without criticism , and a narrative without contradiction ; who laughs with every wit , and yields to every difputer . THERE are many whofe vanity always inclines them to affociate with those from whom they have no reason to ...
... hear a jeft without criticism , and a narrative without contradiction ; who laughs with every wit , and yields to every difputer . THERE are many whofe vanity always inclines them to affociate with those from whom they have no reason to ...
Page 87
... hear a robusteous periwig - pated fellow tear a paffion to tatters , to very rags , to split the ears of the groundlings ; who ( for the most part ) are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb fhews and noife : I could have fuch a ...
... hear a robusteous periwig - pated fellow tear a paffion to tatters , to very rags , to split the ears of the groundlings ; who ( for the most part ) are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb fhews and noife : I could have fuch a ...
Page 101
... Hear how Timotheus ' vary'd lays surprife , And bid alternate paffions fall and rife ! While at each change , the son of Libyan Jove Now burns with glory , and then melts with love ; Now his fierce eyes with sparkling fury glow , Now ...
... Hear how Timotheus ' vary'd lays surprife , And bid alternate paffions fall and rife ! While at each change , the son of Libyan Jove Now burns with glory , and then melts with love ; Now his fierce eyes with sparkling fury glow , Now ...
Page 106
... Hears and forgets , and wakes to doze again . Inftead of converse and variety , The fame trite round , the fame ftale filent fcene : Such are thy comforts , bleffed Solitude ! But Innocence is there , but Peace all kind , And fimple ...
... Hears and forgets , and wakes to doze again . Inftead of converse and variety , The fame trite round , the fame ftale filent fcene : Such are thy comforts , bleffed Solitude ! But Innocence is there , but Peace all kind , And fimple ...
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