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 is Prefixed an Essay on Elocution. By W. Enfield, ...A. Millar, W. Law, and R. Cater, 1794 - 405 pages |
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Page xxviii
... raise the voice than to fall it at the end of a sentence . Interro- gatives , where the speaker seems to expect an an- fwer , fhould almost always be elevated at the close , with a peculiar tone , to indicate that a question is afked ...
... raise the voice than to fall it at the end of a sentence . Interro- gatives , where the speaker seems to expect an an- fwer , fhould almost always be elevated at the close , with a peculiar tone , to indicate that a question is afked ...
Page xxix
... raise it with all the variation which the fenfe requires . The beft method of correcting a uniform cadence , is fre- quently to read felect fentences , in which the ftyle is pointed , and frequent antithefis are introduced ; and ...
... raise it with all the variation which the fenfe requires . The beft method of correcting a uniform cadence , is fre- quently to read felect fentences , in which the ftyle is pointed , and frequent antithefis are introduced ; and ...
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... raise a confidence , and then deceive it . By others ' faults , wife men correct their own . No man hath a thorough tafte of profperity , to whom adversity never happened . WHEN Our vices leave us , we flatter ourselves that we leave ...
... raise a confidence , and then deceive it . By others ' faults , wife men correct their own . No man hath a thorough tafte of profperity , to whom adversity never happened . WHEN Our vices leave us , we flatter ourselves that we leave ...
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... raised , and raise fuch appetites as Nature never planted . You never heard the most delici- ous mufic , which is the praise of one's felf ; nor faw the most beautiful object , which is the work of one's own hands . Your votaries pass ...
... raised , and raise fuch appetites as Nature never planted . You never heard the most delici- ous mufic , which is the praise of one's felf ; nor faw the most beautiful object , which is the work of one's own hands . Your votaries pass ...
Page 52
... raises his tremendous voice . At first , heard folemn o'er the verge of heaven , The tempeft growls ; but as it nearer comes , And rolls its awful burden on the wind , The light'nings flash a larger curve , and more The noise aftounds ...
... raises his tremendous voice . At first , heard folemn o'er the verge of heaven , The tempeft growls ; but as it nearer comes , And rolls its awful burden on the wind , The light'nings flash a larger curve , and more The noise aftounds ...
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