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Much study and pains are necessary in acquiring the habit of just and forcible pronunciation ; and i it can only be the effect of close attention and long practice , to be able with a mere glance of the eye , to read any piece with good ...
Much study and pains are necessary in acquiring the habit of just and forcible pronunciation ; and i it can only be the effect of close attention and long practice , to be able with a mere glance of the eye , to read any piece with good ...
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And by taking off his eye from the book , it in part relieves him from the influence of the schoolboy habit of reading in a different key and tone from that of conversation ; and gives him greater liberty to attempt the expression of ...
And by taking off his eye from the book , it in part relieves him from the influence of the schoolboy habit of reading in a different key and tone from that of conversation ; and gives him greater liberty to attempt the expression of ...
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as to be able , with a single glance of the eye , to take in several clauses , or the whole , of a wentence * . by I have only to add , that after the utmost bains have been taken to acquire a just elocution , ind this with the greatest ...
as to be able , with a single glance of the eye , to take in several clauses , or the whole , of a wentence * . by I have only to add , that after the utmost bains have been taken to acquire a just elocution , ind this with the greatest ...
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No object is more pleasing to the eye , than the sight of a man whom you have obliged ; nor any music so agreeable to the ear , as the voice of one who owns you for his benefactor . The coin that is the most current among mankind is ...
No object is more pleasing to the eye , than the sight of a man whom you have obliged ; nor any music so agreeable to the ear , as the voice of one who owns you for his benefactor . The coin that is the most current among mankind is ...
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The poet's 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 notling 14 SELECT ...
The poet's 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 notling 14 SELECT ...
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| Title | The Speaker Or Miscellaneous Pieces Selected from the Best English Writers: Essay on Elocution and Directions for Reading |
| Author | William Enfield |
| Editor | William Enfield |
| Publisher | F. Louis, 1804 |
| Original from | Austrian National Library |
| Digitized | 30 May 2018 |
| Length | 376 pages |
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