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to the voice , which nature requires : and it is for want of this previous study , more perhaps than from any other cause , that we so often hear per1 sons read with an improper emphasis , or with no emphasis at all , that is , with a ...
to the voice , which nature requires : and it is for want of this previous study , more perhaps than from any other cause , that we so often hear per1 sons read with an improper emphasis , or with no emphasis at all , that is , with a ...
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... I could see and hear over their heads . He said he had come last from Spain , where he had been from the furthest borders of Franconia ; and had got so far on his return home , when his ass died . Every one seemed desirous to know ...
... I could see and hear over their heads . He said he had come last from Spain , where he had been from the furthest borders of Franconia ; and had got so far on his return home , when his ass died . Every one seemed desirous to know ...
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They were the sweetest notes I ever heard ; and I instantly let down the foreglass to hear them more distinctly - -- ' Tis Maria , said the postillion , observing I was listening -- Poor Maria , continued he , ( leaning his body on one ...
They were the sweetest notes I ever heard ; and I instantly let down the foreglass to hear them more distinctly - -- ' Tis Maria , said the postillion , observing I was listening -- Poor Maria , continued he , ( leaning his body on one ...
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some time , but not now , I may hear thy sorrows from thy own lips -- but I was deceived : for that moment she took her pipe , and told me such a tale of woe with it , that I rose up , and , with broken and irregular steps , walked ...
some time , but not now , I may hear thy sorrows from thy own lips -- but I was deceived : for that moment she took her pipe , and told me such a tale of woe with it , that I rose up , and , with broken and irregular steps , walked ...
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All these to hear Would Desdemona seriously incline . But still the house affairs would draw ber hence , Which ever as she could with haste dispatch , She'd come again , and with a greedy ear Devour up my discourse : wbieh I observing ...
All these to hear Would Desdemona seriously incline . But still the house affairs would draw ber hence , Which ever as she could with haste dispatch , She'd come again , and with a greedy ear Devour up my discourse : wbieh I observing ...
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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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