The Speaker; Or Miscellaneous Pieces: Selected from the Best English Writers, Disposed Under Proper Heads for the Improvement of Youth, in Reading and Speaking; to which is Prefixed An Essay on Elocution |
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In plain narrative , and especially in argumentation , the least attention to the manner in which we relate a story , or support an argument in conversation , will show , that it is more frequently proper to raise the voice than to fall ...
In plain narrative , and especially in argumentation , the least attention to the manner in which we relate a story , or support an argument in conversation , will show , that it is more frequently proper to raise the voice than to fall ...
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raise the voice than to fall it at the end of a sentence . Interrogatives , where the speaker seems to expect an answer , should almost always be elevated at the close , with a peculiar tone , to indicate that a question is asked .
raise the voice than to fall it at the end of a sentence . Interrogatives , where the speaker seems to expect an answer , should almost always be elevated at the close , with a peculiar tone , to indicate that a question is asked .
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He that contempeth small things , shall fall by little and little . A rich man beginning to fall is held up of his friends : but a poor man being down is thrust away by his friends : when a rich man is fallen he hath many helpers ...
He that contempeth small things , shall fall by little and little . A rich man beginning to fall is held up of his friends : but a poor man being down is thrust away by his friends : when a rich man is fallen he hath many helpers ...
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So it falls out , That what we have we prizes not to the worth , While we enjoy it ; but being lackd and lost , Why then we wreak the value then we find The virtue that possession would not shew us Whilst it SELECT SENTENCES ... 15.
So it falls out , That what we have we prizes not to the worth , While we enjoy it ; but being lackd and lost , Why then we wreak the value then we find The virtue that possession would not shew us Whilst it SELECT SENTENCES ... 15.
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It had pleased Heaven , he said , to bless him with three sons , the finest lads in all Germany ; but having in one week lost two of them by the small - pox , and the youngest falling ill of the same distemper ; he was afraid of being ...
It had pleased Heaven , he said , to bless him with three sons , the finest lads in all Germany ; but having in one week lost two of them by the small - pox , and the youngest falling ill of the same distemper ; he was afraid of being ...
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Page 96 - Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor : suit the action to the word, the word to the action ; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature...
Page 15 - Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves ; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely touch'd But to fine issues, nor Nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence, But, like a thrifty goddess, she determines Herself the glory of a creditor, Both thanks and use.
Page 16 - Cowards die many times before their deaths ; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear ; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come, when it will come.
Page 372 - Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And, sure, he is an honourable man. I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke, But here I am to speak what I do know. You all did love him once, — not without cause: What cause withholds you, then, to mourn for him? O judgment, thou art fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason! — Bear with me; My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar, And I must pause till it come back to me.
Page 376 - You have done that you should be sorry for. There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats ; For I am arm'd so strong in honesty, That they pass by me as the idle wind. Which I respect not.
Page 277 - The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon, With spectacles on nose, and pouch on side ; His youthful hose, well sav'd, a world too wide For his shrunk shank, and his big manly voice, Turning again toward childish treble, pipes And whistles in his sound.
Page 58 - I observing, Took once a pliant hour; and found good means To draw from her a prayer of earnest heart, That I would all my pilgrimage dilate, Whereof by parcels she had something heard, But not intentively...
Page 108 - In the bright muse, tho' thousand charms conspire, Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire; Who haunt Parnassus but to please their ear, Not mend their minds; as some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there. These equal syllables alone require, Tho...
Page 364 - O my lord, Must I, then, leave you? must I needs forego So good, so noble, and so true a master? Bear witness, all that have not hearts of iron, With what a sorrow Cromwell leaves his lord. The king shall have my service ; but my prayers For ever and for ever shall be yours.
Page 284 - The traces, of the smallest spider's web ; The collars, of the moonshine's watery beams : Her whip, of cricket's bone ; the lash, of film : Her...
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| Pealkiri | The Speaker; Or Miscellaneous Pieces: Selected from the Best English Writers, Disposed Under Proper Heads for the Improvement of Youth, in Reading and Speaking; to which is Prefixed An Essay on Elocution |
| Autor | William Enfield |
| Publisher | Joseph Larkin, 1808 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 9 okt. 2007 |
| Length | 400 pages |
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