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 |
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Page xiii
... these two characters , and with the correct- nefs and precifion of true learning , combine the eafe and elegance of genteel life . An attention to fuch models , and a free intercourfe with the polite world , are the best guards against ...
... these two characters , and with the correct- nefs and precifion of true learning , combine the eafe and elegance of genteel life . An attention to fuch models , and a free intercourfe with the polite world , are the best guards against ...
Page xvi
... these must be expressed in reading , by a ve . ry distinct emphasis on each part of the oppofi- tion . The following inftances are of this kind : ANGER may glance into the breast of a wife man ; but refts only in the bofom of fools . An ...
... these must be expressed in reading , by a ve . ry distinct emphasis on each part of the oppofi- tion . The following inftances are of this kind : ANGER may glance into the breast of a wife man ; but refts only in the bofom of fools . An ...
Page xvii
... These faults are strongly characterised in Churchill's cenfure of Moffop . WITH ftudied improprieties of fpeech He foars beyond the hackney critic's reach , To epithets allots emphatic ftate , & Whilft principals , ungrac'd , like ...
... These faults are strongly characterised in Churchill's cenfure of Moffop . WITH ftudied improprieties of fpeech He foars beyond the hackney critic's reach , To epithets allots emphatic ftate , & Whilft principals , ungrac'd , like ...
Page xviii
... these melodious speakers may no longer lie open to the farcafm ; Do you read or fing ? if you fing , you fing very ill . Seriously , it is much to be wondered at , that this kind of read- ing , which has fo little merit confidered as ...
... these melodious speakers may no longer lie open to the farcafm ; Do you read or fing ? if you fing , you fing very ill . Seriously , it is much to be wondered at , that this kind of read- ing , which has fo little merit confidered as ...
Page xix
... these are far from marking all the pauses which ought to be made in speaking . A mechanical atten- ion to these refting - places has perhaps been one chief cause of monotony , by leading the reader to an uniform found at every imperfe ...
... these are far from marking all the pauses which ought to be made in speaking . A mechanical atten- ion to these refting - places has perhaps been one chief cause of monotony , by leading the reader to an uniform found at every imperfe ...
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