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 ElocutionSimms&McIntyre, 1811 - 644 pages |
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... look for this standard only among those who unite these two characters , and with the correctness and precision of true learning combine the . ease and elegance of genteel life . An attention to such models , and a free intercourse with ...
... look for this standard only among those who unite these two characters , and with the correctness and precision of true learning combine the . ease and elegance of genteel life . An attention to such models , and a free intercourse with ...
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... looks , and gestures . THERE is the language of emotions and pas- sions , as well as of ideas . To express the latter is the peculiar province of words ; to express the former , pature teaches us to make use of tones , looks and ...
... looks , and gestures . THERE is the language of emotions and pas- sions , as well as of ideas . To express the latter is the peculiar province of words ; to express the former , pature teaches us to make use of tones , looks and ...
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... look , what he saith they extol it to the clouds ; but if a poor man speak , they say , what fellow is this ? Many have fallen by the edge of the sword , but not so many as have fallen by the tongue . Well is he that is defended from it ...
... look , what he saith they extol it to the clouds ; but if a poor man speak , they say , what fellow is this ? Many have fallen by the edge of the sword , but not so many as have fallen by the tongue . Well is he that is defended from it ...
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... looks , Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast , Ready with every nod to tumble down , Into the fatal bowels of the deep . Who shall go about To cozen fortune and to be honourable Without the stamp of merit ? Let none presume To wear an ...
... looks , Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast , Ready with every nod to tumble down , Into the fatal bowels of the deep . Who shall go about To cozen fortune and to be honourable Without the stamp of merit ? Let none presume To wear an ...
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... looks , and all the var riety of colours in her dress that she thought were the most proper to sow her complexion to advan tage . She cast her eyes upon herself , then turned them on those that were present , to see how they liked her ...
... looks , and all the var riety of colours in her dress that she thought were the most proper to sow her complexion to advan tage . She cast her eyes upon herself , then turned them on those that were present , to see how they liked her ...
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Acmit army Avarice Balaam behold bliss bosom breast Brutus Cæsar CELADON CHAP cheerfulness Dæmon danger daugh daughter death divine doth earth endeavour eternal Ev'n ev'ry fate father fear fool fortune FRAM Gauls give Gods grace Grongar Hill hand happy hast hath head hear heart heav'n honour hope hour humour IAGO king labour learning live look Lord MACD mankind Maria marriage means mind modesty motley fool Muse nature Nature's never noble nymph o'er once pain passion Patricians peace perfection person pity pleasure poor pow'r praise pride Romans sapadillas Scythians sense shade SHAKSPEARE SIR JOHN smiles SNEYD DAVIES soul speak spirit STERL suavitèr sweet Syphax tears tell Theana thee thing thou thought Tis green truth twas uncle Toby virtue virtuous voice whole wisdom wise words youth