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 are Prefixed Two EssaysA. Wilson, 1808 - 346 pages |
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Page xi
... passions often depending , in a great measure , upon the vehemence with which the aspirate is uttered . The h is sometimes perversely enough omitted , where it ought to be sounded , and sounded where it ought to be omitted ; the effect ...
... passions often depending , in a great measure , upon the vehemence with which the aspirate is uttered . The h is sometimes perversely enough omitted , where it ought to be sounded , and sounded where it ought to be omitted ; the effect ...
Page xii
... passion to rags , to very tatters , to split the ears of the groundlings . " Cicero compares such speakers to cripples , who get on horseback because they cannot walk : they bellow , because they cannot speak . " RULE III . Acquire ...
... passion to rags , to very tatters , to split the ears of the groundlings . " Cicero compares such speakers to cripples , who get on horseback because they cannot walk : they bellow , because they cannot speak . " RULE III . Acquire ...
Page xvii
... passion , thinks worse thau he speaks ; and an angry man that will chide , speaks worse than he thinks . Better to reign in Hell , than serve in Heav'n . He rais'd a mortal to the skies ; She drew an angel down . When any term , or ...
... passion , thinks worse thau he speaks ; and an angry man that will chide , speaks worse than he thinks . Better to reign in Hell , than serve in Heav'n . He rais'd a mortal to the skies ; She drew an angel down . When any term , or ...
Page xxii
... passion ( for ex- ample , Shakspeare's speech of Hamlet to the Ghost * ) in the same unimpassioned manner in which he would read an or- dinary article of intelligence . Even in silent reading , where the subject interests the passions ...
... passion ( for ex- ample , Shakspeare's speech of Hamlet to the Ghost * ) in the same unimpassioned manner in which he would read an or- dinary article of intelligence . Even in silent reading , where the subject interests the passions ...
Page xxiii
... passions . But in this part of his office pre- cept can afford him little assistance . To describe in words the particular expression , which belongs to each emotion and passion , is , perhaps , wholly impracticable . All attempts to ...
... passions . But in this part of his office pre- cept can afford him little assistance . To describe in words the particular expression , which belongs to each emotion and passion , is , perhaps , wholly impracticable . All attempts to ...
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