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 SpeakingJ. Johnson, 1792 - 436 Seiten |
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... affectation , than of real tafte : but , to whatever cause it be afcribed , it is certainly unfavour- able to true oratory . Agreeable inflections and easy variations of the voice , as far as they arife from , or are confiftent with ...
... affectation , than of real tafte : but , to whatever cause it be afcribed , it is certainly unfavour- able to true oratory . Agreeable inflections and easy variations of the voice , as far as they arife from , or are confiftent with ...
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... affectation of introducing foreign words and phrases to express even that , which cannot be so concifely expreffed in the vernacular tongue . With refpect to grammatical purity , its im- portance , as a fource of perfpicuity and ...
... affectation of introducing foreign words and phrases to express even that , which cannot be so concifely expreffed in the vernacular tongue . With refpect to grammatical purity , its im- portance , as a fource of perfpicuity and ...
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... affectation the world owes its whole race of cox- combs . Nature in her whole drama never drew fuch a part ; she has sometimes made a fool , but a coxcomb is always of his own making . It is the infirmity of little minds to be taken ...
... affectation the world owes its whole race of cox- combs . Nature in her whole drama never drew fuch a part ; she has sometimes made a fool , but a coxcomb is always of his own making . It is the infirmity of little minds to be taken ...
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... affectation , witticifm , and conceit ? CHA P. VIII . WHAT a piece of work is man ! how noble in rez fon ! how infinite in faculties ! in form and moving how exprefs and admirable ! in action how like an angel ! in apprehenfion how like ...
... affectation , witticifm , and conceit ? CHA P. VIII . WHAT a piece of work is man ! how noble in rez fon ! how infinite in faculties ! in form and moving how exprefs and admirable ! in action how like an angel ! in apprehenfion how like ...
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... affectation C 2 affectation in all her geftures . She had a wonderful CHAP . VII . 27 NARRATIVE PIECES . VII Hercules's Choice.
... affectation C 2 affectation in all her geftures . She had a wonderful CHAP . VII . 27 NARRATIVE PIECES . VII Hercules's Choice.
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