The Speaker Or Miscellaneous Pieces Selected from the Best English Writers: Essay on Elocution and Directions for ReadingF. Louis, 1804 - 376 pages |
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... eye , to read any piece with good emphasis and good discretion . It is another office of Emphasis to express the opposition between the several parts of a sen- tence , where the style is pointed and antithetical . Pope's Essay on Man ...
... eye , to read any piece with good emphasis and good discretion . It is another office of Emphasis to express the opposition between the several parts of a sen- tence , where the style is pointed and antithetical . Pope's Essay on Man ...
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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 conversation ; and gives him great- er liberty to attempt the expression of the coun- tenance ...
... 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 conversation ; and gives him great- er liberty to attempt the expression of the coun- tenance ...
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... eye , o take in several clauses , or the whole , of a entence * . I have only to add , that after the utmost pains have been taken to acquire a just elocution , und this with the greatest success , there is some lifficulty in carrying ...
... eye , o take in several clauses , or the whole , of a entence * . I have only to add , that after the utmost pains have been taken to acquire a just elocution , und this with the greatest success , there is some lifficulty in carrying ...
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... eye in a fine phrenzy rolling Doth glance from heaven to earth , from earth to heaven , And as imagination bodies forth The form of things unknown , the poet's pen . Turns them to shape , and gives to airy nothing 14 Book j . SELECT ...
... eye in a fine phrenzy rolling Doth glance from heaven to earth , from earth to heaven , And as imagination bodies forth The form of things unknown , the poet's pen . Turns them to shape , and gives to airy nothing 14 Book j . SELECT ...
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... and easy , her person clean and unspotted , her eyes cast towards the ground with an agreeable reserve , her motion and be- 1 1 " 1 27 baviour full of modesty , and her raiment as 26 Book ij . NARRATIVE PIECES . Hercules's Choice Tatler,
... and easy , her person clean and unspotted , her eyes cast towards the ground with an agreeable reserve , her motion and be- 1 1 " 1 27 baviour full of modesty , and her raiment as 26 Book ij . NARRATIVE PIECES . Hercules's Choice Tatler,
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