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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... eyes and countenance , as well as the voice , are capable of endless variety of expref- fion , fuited to every poffible diverfity of feeling ; and with these the general air and gesture naturally accord . The use of this language is not ...
... eyes and countenance , as well as the voice , are capable of endless variety of expref- fion , fuited to every poffible diverfity of feeling ; and with these the general air and gesture naturally accord . The use of this language is not ...
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... to difcern their particular mean- ing and force , and gives him a previous knowledge of the several inflexions , emphafes , and tones which the words b 5 words require by taking off his eye from the book ELOCUTION . xxxiii.
... to difcern their particular mean- ing and force , and gives him a previous knowledge of the several inflexions , emphafes , and tones which the words b 5 words require by taking off his eye from the book ELOCUTION . xxxiii.
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... eye from the book , it in part relieves him from the influence of the school - boy habit of reading in a different key and tone from that of converfation ; and it affords greater fcope for expreffion in tones , looks and gesture . IT ...
... eye from the book , it in part relieves him from the influence of the school - boy habit of reading in a different key and tone from that of converfation ; and it affords greater fcope for expreffion in tones , looks and gesture . IT ...
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... eye with a sense of variety . be To complete the merit of any literary work as far as thought is concerned , it is neceffary to add to every other excellence that of UTILITY . In writing , as in 2 life , life , this ultimate end fhould ...
... eye with a sense of variety . be To complete the merit of any literary work as far as thought is concerned , it is neceffary to add to every other excellence that of UTILITY . In writing , as in 2 life , life , this ultimate end fhould ...
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... eye , expands the imagination , and dilates the heart , and thus becomes a fource of pleasure . J Who that , from Alpine heights , his lab'ring eye Shoots round the wide horizon , to furvey . Nilus , or Ganges , rolling his bright wave ...
... eye , expands the imagination , and dilates the heart , and thus becomes a fource of pleasure . J Who that , from Alpine heights , his lab'ring eye Shoots round the wide horizon , to furvey . Nilus , or Ganges , rolling his bright wave ...
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