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 William Enfield ... A New Edition, Corrected ... |
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Page xvii
... chide , fpeaks worse than he thinks . BETTER to reign in hell , than ferve in heaven . He rais'd a mortal to the skies ; She brought an angel down . EMPHASIS EMPHASIS likewife ferves to express some par- ticular meaning not ELOCUTION .
... chide , fpeaks worse than he thinks . BETTER to reign in hell , than ferve in heaven . He rais'd a mortal to the skies ; She brought an angel down . EMPHASIS EMPHASIS likewife ferves to express some par- ticular meaning not ELOCUTION .
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... ferve it . In fhort , if you would be eminent in war or peace , you must become mafter of all the qualifications that can make you fo . These are the only terms and conditions upon which I can propose happiness . The Goddess of Pleasure ...
... ferve it . In fhort , if you would be eminent in war or peace , you must become mafter of all the qualifications that can make you fo . These are the only terms and conditions upon which I can propose happiness . The Goddess of Pleasure ...
Page 43
... ferve you thus , " You'll find ' em but of little ufe . " So high at last the contest rofe , From words they almoft came to blows : When luckily came by a third ; To him the question they referr'd ; And begg'd he'd tell ' em , if he ...
... ferve you thus , " You'll find ' em but of little ufe . " So high at last the contest rofe , From words they almoft came to blows : When luckily came by a third ; To him the question they referr'd ; And begg'd he'd tell ' em , if he ...
Page 55
... ferve ; no joys he found . Yet fprightly Gaul ; yet Belgium , Saturn's reign ; Yet Greece , of old the feat of every Mufe , Of freedom , courage ; yet Aufonia's clime , His steps explor'd ; where painting , mufic's strains ; Where arts ...
... ferve ; no joys he found . Yet fprightly Gaul ; yet Belgium , Saturn's reign ; Yet Greece , of old the feat of every Mufe , Of freedom , courage ; yet Aufonia's clime , His steps explor'd ; where painting , mufic's strains ; Where arts ...
Page 70
... ferve his turn , neither truth nor falfhood . INDEED , if a man were only to deal in the world for a day , and should never have occafion to converse more with mankind , never more need their good opinion or good word , it were then no ...
... ferve his turn , neither truth nor falfhood . INDEED , if a man were only to deal in the world for a day , and should never have occafion to converse more with mankind , never more need their good opinion or good word , it were then no ...
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