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These are the speakers , who , in Shakespeare's phrase « offend the judicious hearer to the soul , by tear» ing a passion to rags , to very tatters , to split » the ears of the groundlings . » Cicero compares such speakers to cripples ...
These are the speakers , who , in Shakespeare's phrase « offend the judicious hearer to the soul , by tear» ing a passion to rags , to very tatters , to split » the ears of the groundlings . » Cicero compares such speakers to cripples ...
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She taught men to weep , for she took a strange delight in tears : and often , when the virgins of the hamlet were assembled at their evening sports , she would steal in amongst them , and captivate their hearts by her tales , full of a ...
She taught men to weep , for she took a strange delight in tears : and often , when the virgins of the hamlet were assembled at their evening sports , she would steal in amongst them , and captivate their hearts by her tales , full of a ...
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... the same -- when observing a little rust which it had contracted near the point , he brought it near his eye , and bending his head down over it I think I saw a tear fall upon the place : I could not be deceived by what followed .
... the same -- when observing a little rust which it had contracted near the point , he brought it near his eye , and bending his head down over it I think I saw a tear fall upon the place : I could not be deceived by what followed .
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I looked in Maria's eyes , and saw she was thinking more of her father than of her lover or her little goat ; for as she uttered them , the tears trickled down her cheeks . I sat down close by her , and Maria let me wipe them away as ...
I looked in Maria's eyes , and saw she was thinking more of her father than of her lover or her little goat ; for as she uttered them , the tears trickled down her cheeks . I sat down close by her , and Maria let me wipe them away as ...
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She came ; his cold hand softly touch'd , And bath'd with many a tear ; First falling o'er the primrose pale , So morning dews appear . But oh ! his sister's jealous care ( A cruel sister she ! ) Forbad what EMMA came to say : My Edwin ...
She came ; his cold hand softly touch'd , And bath'd with many a tear ; First falling o'er the primrose pale , So morning dews appear . But oh ! his sister's jealous care ( A cruel sister she ! ) Forbad what EMMA came to say : My Edwin ...
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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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