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. To which are Prefixed Two Essays |
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88 On the Advantages of uniting Gentle . ness of Manners with Firmness of Mind
Ld . Chesterfield 90 On Good Sense Melmoth 92 On Study Bacon 94 On Satirical
Wit Sterne 95 Hamlet's Instructions to the Players Shaks . 96 The present ...
88 On the Advantages of uniting Gentle . ness of Manners with Firmness of Mind
Ld . Chesterfield 90 On Good Sense Melmoth 92 On Study Bacon 94 On Satirical
Wit Sterne 95 Hamlet's Instructions to the Players Shaks . 96 The present ...
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... perhaps , from a few , unlucky specimens of modern eloquence , have
concluded that this is the only law which ought to be prescribed ; that all artificial
rules are useless ; and that good sense , and a cultivated taste , are the only
requisites to ...
... perhaps , from a few , unlucky specimens of modern eloquence , have
concluded that this is the only law which ought to be prescribed ; that all artificial
rules are useless ; and that good sense , and a cultivated taste , are the only
requisites to ...
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... chosen for that purpose ( such for instance as abound with long and unusual
words , or in which many short syllables come together ) and to read , at certain
stated times , much slower than the sense and just speaking would require .
Almost ...
... chosen for that purpose ( such for instance as abound with long and unusual
words , or in which many short syllables come together ) and to read , at certain
stated times , much slower than the sense and just speaking would require .
Almost ...
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Without pauses , the sense must always appear confused and obscure , and
often be misunderstood ; and the spirit and energy of the piece must be wholly
lost . In executing this part of the office of a speaker , it will by no means be
sufficient to ...
Without pauses , the sense must always appear confused and obscure , and
often be misunderstood ; and the spirit and energy of the piece must be wholly
lost . In executing this part of the office of a speaker , it will by no means be
sufficient to ...
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Nay , it is very allowable for the sake of pointing out the sense more strongly
preparing the audiance for what is to follow , or enabling the speaker to alter the
tone or height of the voice , sometimes to make a very considerable pause ,
where ...
Nay , it is very allowable for the sake of pointing out the sense more strongly
preparing the audiance for what is to follow , or enabling the speaker to alter the
tone or height of the voice , sometimes to make a very considerable pause ,
where ...
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This reader was initially published as a British reader, and then imported to America. According to Henry W. Simon, it was first published in America in Philadelphia in 1799. He was unaware of this second American printing. There is also another printing -- from New York in 1812 -- of which he too was unaware. Thus far, these are the only three American printings of which I am aware. In a visit to the Harvard archives, I noticed in their records that the Institute of 1770, an early literary society there, often read aloud from Enfield in their meetings in the 1770s and 1780s (though this would have been a British version of the text, not the American one depicted here).
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Page 96 - Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor : suit the action to the word, the word to the action ; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature...
Page 15 - Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves ; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely touch'd But to fine issues, nor Nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence, But, like a thrifty goddess, she determines Herself the glory of a creditor, Both thanks and use.
Page 16 - Cowards die many times before their deaths ; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear ; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come, when it will come.
Page 372 - Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And, sure, he is an honourable man. I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke, But here I am to speak what I do know. You all did love him once, — not without cause: What cause withholds you, then, to mourn for him? O judgment, thou art fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason! — Bear with me; My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar, And I must pause till it come back to me.
Page 376 - You have done that you should be sorry for. There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats ; For I am arm'd so strong in honesty, That they pass by me as the idle wind. Which I respect not.
Page 277 - The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon, With spectacles on nose, and pouch on side ; His youthful hose, well sav'd, a world too wide For his shrunk shank, and his big manly voice, Turning again toward childish treble, pipes And whistles in his sound.
Page 58 - I observing, Took once a pliant hour; and found good means To draw from her a prayer of earnest heart, That I would all my pilgrimage dilate, Whereof by parcels she had something heard, But not intentively...
Page 108 - In the bright muse, tho' thousand charms conspire, Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire; Who haunt Parnassus but to please their ear, Not mend their minds; as some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there. These equal syllables alone require, Tho...
Page 364 - O my lord, Must I, then, leave you? must I needs forego So good, so noble, and so true a master? Bear witness, all that have not hearts of iron, With what a sorrow Cromwell leaves his lord. The king shall have my service ; but my prayers For ever and for ever shall be yours.
Page 284 - The traces, of the smallest spider's web ; The collars, of the moonshine's watery beams : Her whip, of cricket's bone ; the lash, of film : Her...
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| Title | 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. To which are Prefixed Two Essays Mary P. Thompson library |
| Author | William Enfield |
| Publisher | Joseph Larkin, 1808 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 9 Oct 2007 |
| Length | 400 pages |
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