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 xxii
... last word , or clause of the feries , takes the fufpending paufe , to intimate to the hearer the connection of the whole feries with what follows . For example ; Finally , brethren , whatsoever things are true , whatsoever things are ...
... last word , or clause of the feries , takes the fufpending paufe , to intimate to the hearer the connection of the whole feries with what follows . For example ; Finally , brethren , whatsoever things are true , whatsoever things are ...
Page xlv
... last period , fuch as Swift , Addison , and Middleton , who difdained to confine their conceptions within the narrow inclosure of such arbitrary rules , took all the scope , in the structure of their periods , which the extent and ...
... last period , fuch as Swift , Addison , and Middleton , who difdained to confine their conceptions within the narrow inclosure of such arbitrary rules , took all the scope , in the structure of their periods , which the extent and ...
Page 16
... last fyllable of recorded time , And all our yefterdays have lighted fools . The way to dufky death . Out , out , brief candle ! Life's but a walking fhadow , a poor player , That ftruts and frets his hour upon the stage , And then is ...
... last fyllable of recorded time , And all our yefterdays have lighted fools . The way to dufky death . Out , out , brief candle ! Life's but a walking fhadow , a poor player , That ftruts and frets his hour upon the stage , And then is ...
Page 17
... . And who , fays the Dervife , was the last perfon that lodged here ? The king replied , His father . And who is it , fays the Dervife , that lodges here at at present ? The king told him , That it [ 17 ] BOOK II-NARRATIVE PIECES.
... . And who , fays the Dervife , was the last perfon that lodged here ? The king replied , His father . And who is it , fays the Dervife , that lodges here at at present ? The king told him , That it [ 17 ] BOOK II-NARRATIVE PIECES.
Page 34
... last will restore her to herself ; but her parents , who know her beft , are hopeless upon that score , and think her fenfes are loft for ever . As the poftillion spoke this , Maria made a cadence fo melancholy , fo tender and querulous ...
... last will restore her to herself ; but her parents , who know her beft , are hopeless upon that score , and think her fenfes are loft for ever . As the poftillion spoke this , Maria made a cadence fo melancholy , fo tender and querulous ...
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