Lessons in Elocution, Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse: For the Improvement of Youth in Reading and Speaking : as Well as for the Perusal of Persons of Taste : with an Appendix ...Peter B. Gleason, 1812 - 382 pagini |
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Pagina 27
... beauty , and killing , puts a fine woman by turns into all sorts of forms , appearances , and attitudes , but amiable ones . She undoės by art , or rather by awkwardness , ( for true art conceals it- self ) all that nature has done for ...
... beauty , and killing , puts a fine woman by turns into all sorts of forms , appearances , and attitudes , but amiable ones . She undoės by art , or rather by awkwardness , ( for true art conceals it- self ) all that nature has done for ...
Pagina 54
... latest breath , that , though a taste of pleasure might quicken the relish of life , an unrestrained indul- gence is inevitable destruction . A XIV . Beauty and Deformity . YOUTH , who 54 [ PART I. LESSONS IN READING . XII. The Picture. ...
... latest breath , that , though a taste of pleasure might quicken the relish of life , an unrestrained indul- gence is inevitable destruction . A XIV . Beauty and Deformity . YOUTH , who 54 [ PART I. LESSONS IN READING . XII. The Picture. ...
Pagina 55
... Beauty and Deformity . YOUTH , who lived in the country , and who had not acquired , either by reading or conversation , any knowledge of the animals which inhabit foreign regions , came to Manchester , to see an exhibition of wild ...
... Beauty and Deformity . YOUTH , who lived in the country , and who had not acquired , either by reading or conversation , any knowledge of the animals which inhabit foreign regions , came to Manchester , to see an exhibition of wild ...
Pagina 59
... beauty was natural and easy , her person clean and unspotted , her eyes cast towards the ground , with an agreeable reserve , her motion and behavior full of modes- ty , and her raiment as white as snow . The other had a great deal of ...
... beauty was natural and easy , her person clean and unspotted , her eyes cast towards the ground , with an agreeable reserve , her motion and behavior full of modes- ty , and her raiment as white as snow . The other had a great deal of ...
Pagina 70
... beauty and harmony , one would be apt to conclude it was made for our pleasure . The sun , which is as the great soul of the universe , and produces all the * necessaries of life , has a particular influence in 70 [ PART I. LESSONS IN ...
... beauty and harmony , one would be apt to conclude it was made for our pleasure . The sun , which is as the great soul of the universe , and produces all the * necessaries of life , has a particular influence in 70 [ PART I. LESSONS IN ...
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