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 x
... kind of discourse or writing to be delivered , whether it be narrative , didactic , argumentative , oratorical , colloquial , descriptive , or pathetic ; must be the result of much attention and labour . And there can be no reason to ...
... kind of discourse or writing to be delivered , whether it be narrative , didactic , argumentative , oratorical , colloquial , descriptive , or pathetic ; must be the result of much attention and labour . And there can be no reason to ...
Pagina xvi
... kind of daylight in the mind , and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity * ; the principal stress is laid upon certain substantives , adjec- tives , and verbs ; and the rest of the sentence is spoken with an inferior degree of ...
... kind of daylight in the mind , and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity * ; the principal stress is laid upon certain substantives , adjec- tives , and verbs ; and the rest of the sentence is spoken with an inferior degree of ...
Pagina xvii
... kind : Anger may glance into the breast of a wise man , but rests only in the bosom of fools . To err is human ; to forgive , divine . An angry man who suppresses his passion , thinks worse thau he speaks ; and an angry man that will ...
... kind : Anger may glance into the breast of a wise man , but rests only in the bosom of fools . To err is human ; to forgive , divine . An angry man who suppresses his passion , thinks worse thau he speaks ; and an angry man that will ...
Pagina xviii
... kind of uniformity , which the poet probably did not intend ; and which , if he had , would certainly , at least in a poem of . considerable length , become insufferably tiresome . In read- ing prose , this fondness for melody is ...
... kind of uniformity , which the poet probably did not intend ; and which , if he had , would certainly , at least in a poem of . considerable length , become insufferably tiresome . In read- ing prose , this fondness for melody is ...
Pagina xix
... kind of reading , which has so little merit considered as music , and none at all considered as speaking , should be so studiously practised , and so much admired . Can a me- thod of reading , which is so entirely different from the ...
... kind of reading , which has so little merit considered as music , and none at all considered as speaking , should be so studiously practised , and so much admired . Can a me- thod of reading , which is so entirely different from the ...
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