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 ix
... Truth XV . Ode to Fancy XVI . L'Allegro XVII . II Penferofo Sterne 248 Ibid . 249 Ibid . 25 Pope 252 Goldsmith 254 Green 256 Dyer 259 Gray 264 Ibid . 266 Ibid . 270 Mrs. Barbauld 275 Ibid . 278 Collins 280 Mafon 282 · Warton 284 Milton ...
... Truth XV . Ode to Fancy XVI . L'Allegro XVII . II Penferofo Sterne 248 Ibid . 249 Ibid . 25 Pope 252 Goldsmith 254 Green 256 Dyer 259 Gray 264 Ibid . 266 Ibid . 270 Mrs. Barbauld 275 Ibid . 278 Collins 280 Mafon 282 · Warton 284 Milton ...
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... truth , that to be able to speak well is an ornamental and ufeful accomplish- ment . Without the laboured panegyrics of ancient or modern orators , the importance of a good elocution is fufficiently obvious . Every one will acknowledge ...
... truth , that to be able to speak well is an ornamental and ufeful accomplish- ment . Without the laboured panegyrics of ancient or modern orators , the importance of a good elocution is fufficiently obvious . Every one will acknowledge ...
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... truth is clear ; Whatever is , is right . The principal words , which serve to mark the divifions of a discourse , should be diftinguished in the fame manner . EMPHASIS may also serve to intimate fome allufion , to exprefs surprise , or ...
... truth is clear ; Whatever is , is right . The principal words , which serve to mark the divifions of a discourse , should be diftinguished in the fame manner . EMPHASIS may also serve to intimate fome allufion , to exprefs surprise , or ...
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... truths , which they are intended to teach , with perfect perfpicuity of conception , arrangement and dic- tion . But in works of tafte , the writing itself becomes a principal object of attention , as a reprefentation of nature , more ...
... truths , which they are intended to teach , with perfect perfpicuity of conception , arrangement and dic- tion . But in works of tafte , the writing itself becomes a principal object of attention , as a reprefentation of nature , more ...
Page xlviii
... of uniting pleasure " with truth , by calling imagination to the help of " reafon . " Scribendi rectè fapere eft et principium et fens . I HOR . PERFECT PERFECT and DISTINCT CONCEPTION - a fecond character of thought xlviii ON READING.
... of uniting pleasure " with truth , by calling imagination to the help of " reafon . " Scribendi rectè fapere eft et principium et fens . I HOR . PERFECT PERFECT and DISTINCT CONCEPTION - a fecond character of thought xlviii ON READING.
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