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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... kind of discourse or writing to be delivered , whether it be nar- rative , didactic , argumentative , oratorical , colloquial , de- fcriptive , or pathetic ; must be the refult of much atten- tion and labour . And there can be no reafon ...
... kind of discourse or writing to be delivered , whether it be nar- rative , didactic , argumentative , oratorical , colloquial , de- fcriptive , or pathetic ; must be the refult of much atten- tion and labour . And there can be no reafon ...
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... kind of day - light in the mind , and fills it with a steady and perpetual ferenity : and conveys the principal ftrefs is laid upon certain fubftantives , adjectives and verbs ; and the reft of the fentence is spoken with an inferior ...
... kind of day - light in the mind , and fills it with a steady and perpetual ferenity : and conveys the principal ftrefs is laid upon certain fubftantives , adjectives and verbs ; and the reft of the fentence is spoken with an inferior ...
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... kind : ANGER may glance into the breast of a wife man ; but refts only . in the bofom of fools . To err is human ; to forgive , divine . An angry man who fuppreffes his paffion , thinks worfe than he fpeaks ; and an angry man that will ...
... kind : ANGER may glance into the breast of a wife man ; but refts only . in the bofom of fools . To err is human ; to forgive , divine . An angry man who fuppreffes his paffion , thinks worfe than he fpeaks ; and an angry man that will ...
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... kind of uniformity , which the poet probably did not intend , and which , if he had , would certainly , at least in a poem of confiderable length , be- come infufferably tirefome . In reading profe , this fond- nefs 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 confiderable length , be- come infufferably tirefome . In reading profe , this fond- nefs for melody is ...
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... kind , the tone of the paf- fion will often require a ftill greater cadence of the voice . But before a fpeaker can be able to fall his voice with propriety and judgment at the clofe of a fentence , he must be able to keep it from ...
... kind , the tone of the paf- fion will often require a ftill greater cadence of the voice . But before a fpeaker can be able to fall his voice with propriety and judgment at the clofe of a fentence , he must be able to keep it from ...
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