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 xxiii
... hands are to be employed in expressing the passions , must , from the nature of the thing , be exceedingly imperfect , and conse- quently ineffectual . Upon this head , I shall therefore only lay down the fol- lowing general precept ...
... hands are to be employed in expressing the passions , must , from the nature of the thing , be exceedingly imperfect , and conse- quently ineffectual . Upon this head , I shall therefore only lay down the fol- lowing general precept ...
Pagina xxxv
... hands , and be pleased one knows not why , and cares not " wherefore " -there are unquestionably in nature certain characters , by which works of true genius and taste may be distinguished from inferior productions . To be able , in all ...
... hands , and be pleased one knows not why , and cares not " wherefore " -there are unquestionably in nature certain characters , by which works of true genius and taste may be distinguished from inferior productions . To be able , in all ...
Pagina 2
... hand- some address , and graceful conversation . Complaisance renders a superior amiable , an equal agree- able , and an inferior acceptable . Excess of ceremony shows want of breeding . That ci- vility is best , which excludes all ...
... hand- some address , and graceful conversation . Complaisance renders a superior amiable , an equal agree- able , and an inferior acceptable . Excess of ceremony shows want of breeding . That ci- vility is best , which excludes all ...
Pagina 5
... hand , and sits upon our lips , and is ready to drop out before we are aware : whereas a lie is troublesome , and sets a man's invention upon the rack ; and one trick needs a great many more to make it good . The pleasure , which ...
... hand , and sits upon our lips , and is ready to drop out before we are aware : whereas a lie is troublesome , and sets a man's invention upon the rack ; and one trick needs a great many more to make it good . The pleasure , which ...
Pagina 9
... hands ; in unskilful , most mischievous . A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong ; which is but saying in other words , that he is wiser to day than he was yesterday . Wherever I find a great deal of gratitude in ...
... hands ; in unskilful , most mischievous . A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong ; which is but saying in other words , that he is wiser to day than he was yesterday . Wherever I find a great deal of gratitude in ...
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