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 SpeakingJ. Johnson, 1792 - 436 pàgines |
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Pàgina xxv
... muft be mufical , let the words be fet to mufic in recitative , that these melodious fpeakers may no longer lie open to the farcasm ; Do you read , or fing ? if you fing , you fing very ill . It is much to be wondered at , that a kind b ...
... muft be mufical , let the words be fet to mufic in recitative , that these melodious fpeakers may no longer lie open to the farcasm ; Do you read , or fing ? if you fing , you fing very ill . It is much to be wondered at , that a kind b ...
Pàgina xxvi
... muft appear confused , and may even be mifreprefented in a manner moft abfurd and contradictory . There have been reciters , who have made Douglas fay to Lord Randolph * : We fought and conquer'd ere a sword was drawn . * Book ii . Chap ...
... muft appear confused , and may even be mifreprefented in a manner moft abfurd and contradictory . There have been reciters , who have made Douglas fay to Lord Randolph * : We fought and conquer'd ere a sword was drawn . * Book ii . Chap ...
Pàgina xxxii
... muft , from the nature of the thing , be exceedingly imperfect , and confequently ineffectual . UPON this head , I fhall therefore only lay down the following general precept : obferve the manner in which the feveral paffions and ...
... muft , from the nature of the thing , be exceedingly imperfect , and confequently ineffectual . UPON this head , I fhall therefore only lay down the following general precept : obferve the manner in which the feveral paffions and ...
Pàgina xlviii
... muft adinit nothing which contradicts common sense and experience , or of which a real arche- type cannot even be fuppofed to exift . The boldeft flights of poetic fiction must not pafs the boundaries of nature and probability . It is ...
... muft adinit nothing which contradicts common sense and experience , or of which a real arche- type cannot even be fuppofed to exift . The boldeft flights of poetic fiction must not pafs the boundaries of nature and probability . It is ...
Pàgina l
... muft not , however , be understood to preclude , especially in long works , fuch incidental excurfions , as having fome relation to the main subject , afford the reader an agreeable relief , without destroying the unity of the piece ...
... muft not , however , be understood to preclude , especially in long works , fuch incidental excurfions , as having fome relation to the main subject , afford the reader an agreeable relief , without destroying the unity of the piece ...
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