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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Page xxii
... leave us , we fancy that we leave them . A count'nance more in Sorrow , than in Anger . A custom more honour'd in the Breach , than the Obfervance . IN fome fentences the antithefis is double , and even treble : these must be expreffed ...
... leave us , we fancy that we leave them . A count'nance more in Sorrow , than in Anger . A custom more honour'd in the Breach , than the Obfervance . IN fome fentences the antithefis is double , and even treble : these must be expreffed ...
Page xxiv
... leaving the reader at full liberty to follow his own understanding and feelings , they rather mislead than affist him . THE most common faults refpecting Emphafis are , laying fo ftrong an emphafis upon one word as to leave no power of ...
... leaving the reader at full liberty to follow his own understanding and feelings , they rather mislead than affist him . THE most common faults refpecting Emphafis are , laying fo ftrong an emphafis upon one word as to leave no power of ...
Page lvi
... difpofed to lean towards concifenefs , let him cautiously avoid that elliptical diction , which leaves the reader too much to fupply . If , through the fertility of of his invention , his language naturally becomes diffufe , lvi ON READING.
... difpofed to lean towards concifenefs , let him cautiously avoid that elliptical diction , which leaves the reader too much to fupply . If , through the fertility of of his invention , his language naturally becomes diffufe , lvi ON READING.
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... leave us , we flatter ourselves that we leave them . It is as great a point of wisdom to hide ignorance , as to difcover knowledge . PITCH upon that courfe of life which is the most excel- lent ; and habit will render it the moft ...
... leave us , we flatter ourselves that we leave them . It is as great a point of wisdom to hide ignorance , as to difcover knowledge . PITCH upon that courfe of life which is the most excel- lent ; and habit will render it the moft ...
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... Leave not a wreck behind ! we are fuch ftuff As dreams are made on , and our little life Is rounded with a fleep . OUR indifcretion fometimes ferves us well , When our deep plots do fail ; and that should teach us , There's a divinity ...
... Leave not a wreck behind ! we are fuch ftuff As dreams are made on , and our little life Is rounded with a fleep . OUR indifcretion fometimes ferves us well , When our deep plots do fail ; and that should teach us , There's a divinity ...
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