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 xiii
... serving the height of voice which is proper to each , and en- deavouring to change it as Nature directs . In the same composition there may be frequent occasion to alter the height of the voice , in passing from one part to another ...
... serving the height of voice which is proper to each , and en- deavouring to change it as Nature directs . In the same composition there may be frequent occasion to alter the height of the voice , in passing from one part to another ...
Pagina xv
... serves to distinguish from each other the words of which a sentence is composed : without it , the ear would perceive nothing but an unmeaning succession of detached syllables . Accent may be applied either to long or to short syllables ...
... serves to distinguish from each other the words of which a sentence is composed : without it , the ear would perceive nothing but an unmeaning succession of detached syllables . Accent may be applied either to long or to short syllables ...
Pagina xvi
... serves to unite words , and form them into sentences . By giving the several parts of a sentence their proper utterance , it discovers their mutual dependance , and conveys their full import to the mind of the hearer . It is in the ...
... serves to unite words , and form them into sentences . By giving the several parts of a sentence their proper utterance , it discovers their mutual dependance , and conveys their full import to the mind of the hearer . It is in the ...
Pagina xvii
... serve to mark the divisions of a discourse , should be distinguished in the same manner . Emphasis may also serve to intimate some allusion , to ex- press surprise , or to convey an oblique hint . For example : While expletives their ...
... serve to mark the divisions of a discourse , should be distinguished in the same manner . Emphasis may also serve to intimate some allusion , to ex- press surprise , or to convey an oblique hint . For example : While expletives their ...
Pagina 2
... serves for the law of life , and not for the ostentation of science . CHAP . II . WITHOUT a friend the world is but a wilderness . A man may have a thousand intimate acquaintances , and not a friend among them all . If you have one ...
... serves for the law of life , and not for the ostentation of science . CHAP . II . WITHOUT a friend the world is but a wilderness . A man may have a thousand intimate acquaintances , and not a friend among them all . If you have one ...
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The Speaker; Or Miscellaneous Pieces: Selected from the Best English Writers ... William Enfield Vizualizare completă - 1808 |
The Speaker; Or, Miscellaneous Pieces: Selected from the Best English ... William Enfield Vizualizare completă - 1827 |
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anger army Balaam beauty bliss bosom breast Brutus Cæsar cæsura CHAP chill band country gentlemen cried daughter death divine earth elocution endeavour eternal ev'n ev'ry father fear feel fool fortune Fram Gauls genius give glory Gods grace Grongar Hill hand happy hast hath head hear heart Heav'n honour hope Iago imagination kind king labour live look lord Macd mankind manner Maria means mind motley fool Muse nature never noble o'er pain Parliament passion patricians pause peace perfection person pity pleasure poor pow'r praise present privy counsellor proper racter replied Roman Scythians sense sentence SHAKSPEARE Sir John smile SNEYD DAVIES soul speak spirit Sterl sweet Syphax taste tears tell Theana thee thing thou thought truth uncle Toby virtue voice whole wisdom wise words writing youth