The Speaker; Or, Miscellaneous Pieces: Selected from the Very 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 ElocutionW. Borrowdale, 1808 - 412 Seiten |
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... See the following work , Book VI . Chap . III . Before a full pause , 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 destruc- tive of all ...
... See the following work , Book VI . Chap . III . Before a full pause , 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 destruc- tive of all ...
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... are pleased with the easy and graceful movements which the true gentleman has acquir * See Dean Swift's advice on this head in his Letter to a young Clergyman . ed by having learnt to dance ; but we are ELOCUTION . 23.
... are pleased with the easy and graceful movements which the true gentleman has acquir * See Dean Swift's advice on this head in his Letter to a young Clergyman . ed by having learnt to dance ; but we are ELOCUTION . 23.
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... see how they liked her , and often looked on the figure she made in her own fhadow . Upon her nearer approach to Hercules , the ftepped before the other lady , who came forward with a regular compofed carriage , and running up to him ...
... see how they liked her , and often looked on the figure she made in her own fhadow . Upon her nearer approach to Hercules , the ftepped before the other lady , who came forward with a regular compofed carriage , and running up to him ...
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... see whether it was the fame - when obferving a little ruft which it had contracted near the point , he brought it near his eye , and bending his head down over it - I think I faw a tear fall upon the place : I could not be deceived by ...
... see whether it was the fame - when obferving a little ruft which it had contracted near the point , he brought it near his eye , and bending his head down over it - I think I faw a tear fall upon the place : I could not be deceived by ...
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... see her bleft , and die . The foftest blush that Nature spreads , Gave colour to her cheek ; Such orient colour fmiles thro ' Heav'n When May's fweet mornings break , Nor let the pride of great ones fcorn This charmer of the plains ...
... see her bleft , and die . The foftest blush that Nature spreads , Gave colour to her cheek ; Such orient colour fmiles thro ' Heav'n When May's fweet mornings break , Nor let the pride of great ones fcorn This charmer of the plains ...
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