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 EssaysA. Wilson, 1808 - 346 pagini |
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Pagina xxi
... fall of the voice or cadence , with which many readers uniformly , finish a sentence . Nothing can be more destructive of all pro- priety and energy than this habit . The tones and heights at the close of a sentence ought to be ...
... fall of the voice or cadence , with which many readers uniformly , finish a sentence . Nothing can be more destructive of all pro- priety and energy than this habit . The tones and heights at the close of a sentence ought to be ...
Pagina xxii
... fall it , at the end of a sentence . Some sentences are so constructed , that the last words require a stronger emphasis than any of the preceding ; while others admit of being closed with a soft and gentle sound . Where there is ...
... fall it , at the end of a sentence . Some sentences are so constructed , that the last words require a stronger emphasis than any of the preceding ; while others admit of being closed with a soft and gentle sound . Where there is ...
Pagina 6
... fall by little and little . A rich man beginning to fall is held up of his friends ; but a poor man being down is thrust away by his friends : when a rich man is fallen , he hath many helpers ; he speak- eth things not to be spoken ...
... fall by little and little . A rich man beginning to fall is held up of his friends ; but a poor man being down is thrust away by his friends : when a rich man is fallen , he hath many helpers ; he speak- eth things not to be spoken ...
Pagina 28
... fall upon the place I could not be deceived by what followed . " I shall find , ” said he , 66 some other way to get it off . " When the marquis had said this , he returned his sword into it's scabbard , made a bow to the guardian of it ...
... fall upon the place I could not be deceived by what followed . " I shall find , ” said he , 66 some other way to get it off . " When the marquis had said this , he returned his sword into it's scabbard , made a bow to the guardian of it ...
Pagina 30
... fall an unseasonable pleasantry in the venerable presence of Misery , to be entitled to all the wit that ever Rabelais scattered . Adieu , Maria ! -adieu , poor hapless damsel ! -some time , but not now , I may hear thy sorrows from thy ...
... fall an unseasonable pleasantry in the venerable presence of Misery , to be entitled to all the wit that ever Rabelais scattered . Adieu , Maria ! -adieu , poor hapless damsel ! -some time , but not now , I may hear thy sorrows from thy ...
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