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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... breath , and a forcible action of the organs employed in forming them ; and let all the vowel founds have a full and bold utterance . Continue thefe exercises with perfeverance , till you have acquired ftrength and energy of speech ...
... breath , and a forcible action of the organs employed in forming them ; and let all the vowel founds have a full and bold utterance . Continue thefe exercises with perfeverance , till you have acquired ftrength and energy of speech ...
Page xxvi
... breath without incon- venience , and hereby preferve the command of his voice , but in order to give the hearer a diftinct percep- tion of the conftruction and meaning of each fentence , and a clear understanding of the whole . An ...
... breath without incon- venience , and hereby preferve the command of his voice , but in order to give the hearer a diftinct percep- tion of the conftruction and meaning of each fentence , and a clear understanding of the whole . An ...
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... breath Rides on the posting winds , and doth belie All corners of the world . Kings , queens , and ftates ,, Maids , matrons , nay the fecrets of the grave , This viperous flander enters . THERE is a tide in the affairs of men , Which ...
... breath Rides on the posting winds , and doth belie All corners of the world . Kings , queens , and ftates ,, Maids , matrons , nay the fecrets of the grave , This viperous flander enters . THERE is a tide in the affairs of men , Which ...
Page 68
... breath'd gently forth , Now shifted eaft and eaft by north ; Bare trees and shrubs but ill , you know , Could shelter them from rain or snow , } } } Stepping Stepping into their nefts , they paddled , Themselves were 68 BOOK II ...
... breath'd gently forth , Now shifted eaft and eaft by north ; Bare trees and shrubs but ill , you know , Could shelter them from rain or snow , } } } Stepping Stepping into their nefts , they paddled , Themselves were 68 BOOK II ...
Page 123
... breath to bear . There if Ambition , peftilent and pale , Or luxury fhould taint their vernal glow ; If cold Self - intereft , with her chilling gale , Should blast th ' unfolding bloffoms ere they blow ; If mimic hues , by Art , or ...
... breath to bear . There if Ambition , peftilent and pale , Or luxury fhould taint their vernal glow ; If cold Self - intereft , with her chilling gale , Should blast th ' unfolding bloffoms ere they blow ; If mimic hues , by Art , or ...
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