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 is Prefixed an Essay on Elocution. By William Enfield ... A New Edition, Corrected ...J. Johnson, 1782 - 405 pàgines |
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Pàgina xxiii
... laft found to be elevated or emphatical , an easy fall , fufficient to fhow that the fenfe is finished , will be proper . And in pathetic pieces , espe- cially those of the plaintive , tender , or folemn kind , the tone of the paffion ...
... laft found to be elevated or emphatical , an easy fall , fufficient to fhow that the fenfe is finished , will be proper . And in pathetic pieces , espe- cially those of the plaintive , tender , or folemn kind , the tone of the paffion ...
Pàgina 25
... and villages , till at laft they arrived at the capital of the kingdom . At their entrance into the great city , the Mo- C 6 ther ther conjured her daughters never to lose fight of her CHAP . V. 25 NARRATIVE PIECES .
... and villages , till at laft they arrived at the capital of the kingdom . At their entrance into the great city , the Mo- C 6 ther ther conjured her daughters never to lose fight of her CHAP . V. 25 NARRATIVE PIECES .
Pàgina 26
... laft died in child - birth of Disease . Contentment , in the absence of her fifter , gave herself up to the enticements of Sloth , and was never heard of after : while Labour , who could have no enjoyment without her daughters , went ...
... laft died in child - birth of Disease . Contentment , in the absence of her fifter , gave herself up to the enticements of Sloth , and was never heard of after : while Labour , who could have no enjoyment without her daughters , went ...
Pàgina 33
... laft from Spain , where he had been from the furthest borders of Franconia ; and had got fo far on his return home , when his afs died . Every one feem- ed defirous to know what bufinefs could have taken fo old and poor a man fo far a ...
... laft from Spain , where he had been from the furthest borders of Franconia ; and had got fo far on his return home , when his afs died . Every one feem- ed defirous to know what bufinefs could have taken fo old and poor a man fo far a ...
Pàgina 41
... laft look and last farewel of Maria . MARIA , though not tall , was nevertheless of the first or- der of fine forms - affliction had touched her looks with fomething that was fcarce earthly - ftill she was feminine ; - and fo much was ...
... laft look and last farewel of Maria . MARIA , though not tall , was nevertheless of the first or- der of fine forms - affliction had touched her looks with fomething that was fcarce earthly - ftill she was feminine ; - and fo much was ...
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