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, Also an Essay on Reading Works of Taste |
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Page xv
... fentence is compofed : without it , the ear would perceive nothing , but an un- meaning fucceffion of detached fyllables . Accent may be applied either to long or to fhort fyllables , but does not , as fome writers have fuppofed ...
... fentence is compofed : without it , the ear would perceive nothing , but an un- meaning fucceffion of detached fyllables . Accent may be applied either to long or to fhort fyllables , but does not , as fome writers have fuppofed ...
Page xvi
... fentence , diftinguish the more fignificant words by a natural , forcible , and varied EMPHASIS . THERE are in every fentence certain words , which have a greater share in conveying the speaker's meaning than the reft , and are , on ...
... fentence , diftinguish the more fignificant words by a natural , forcible , and varied EMPHASIS . THERE are in every fentence certain words , which have a greater share in conveying the speaker's meaning than the reft , and are , on ...
Page xvii
... fentence , where the ideas are contrafted or compared ; as in the following fentences : 2 When our vices leave us , we fancy that we leave them , A count'nance more in Sorrow , than in Anger . A cuftom more honour'd in the Breach , than ...
... fentence , where the ideas are contrafted or compared ; as in the following fentences : 2 When our vices leave us , we fancy that we leave them , A count'nance more in Sorrow , than in Anger . A cuftom more honour'd in the Breach , than ...
Page xviii
... fentence admits of three different meanings ,, according to the place of the emphafis : d : Do you intend to go to London this fummer ? For want of attending to the proper emphafis , the fol- lowing paffage of fcripture is often ...
... fentence admits of three different meanings ,, according to the place of the emphafis : d : Do you intend to go to London this fummer ? For want of attending to the proper emphafis , the fol- lowing paffage of fcripture is often ...
Page xix
... fentence g to the place fis , the fol- 1 : how great juft and previ- every anner ver- I to 17- n- S own understanding and feelings , they rather mislead than aflift him . THE most common faults refpecting emphafis are , lay- ing fo ...
... fentence g to the place fis , the fol- 1 : how great juft and previ- every anner ver- I to 17- n- S own understanding and feelings , they rather mislead than aflift him . THE most common faults refpecting emphafis are , lay- ing fo ...
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