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 ElocutionJ. Johnson, 1785 - 405 pàgines |
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Pàgina viii
... Some cannot pro- nounce the letter 1 , and others the simple founds r , s , th , fb ; others generally omit the afpirate b . These faults may be corrected , by reading fen- tences , fo contrived as often to repeat the faulty founds ...
... Some cannot pro- nounce the letter 1 , and others the simple founds r , s , th , fb ; others generally omit the afpirate b . These faults may be corrected , by reading fen- tences , fo contrived as often to repeat the faulty founds ...
Pàgina xiv
... the pe- culiarities and vulgarifms of provincial dialects . Those which refpect the pronunciation of words are innumerable . Some of the principal of them are omitting the afpirate b where it ought to be are i Xiv AN ESSAY ON.
... the pe- culiarities and vulgarifms of provincial dialects . Those which refpect the pronunciation of words are innumerable . Some of the principal of them are omitting the afpirate b where it ought to be are i Xiv AN ESSAY ON.
Pàgina xxiii
... Some fentences are fo conftructed , that the last word requires a stronger emphafis than any of the preceding ; whilft others admit of being clofed with a foft and gentle found . Where there is nothing in the fenfe which requires the ...
... Some fentences are fo conftructed , that the last word requires a stronger emphafis than any of the preceding ; whilft others admit of being clofed with a foft and gentle found . Where there is nothing in the fenfe which requires the ...
Pàgina xxiv
... some kind of feeling ufually accompanies our words , and this , whatever it be , hath its proper external expreffion . Expreffion hath indeed been fo little ftudied in public speaking , that we feem almoft to have forgotten the language ...
... some kind of feeling ufually accompanies our words , and this , whatever it be , hath its proper external expreffion . Expreffion hath indeed been fo little ftudied in public speaking , that we feem almoft to have forgotten the language ...
Pàgina 4
... SOME would be thought to do great things , who are but tools and inftruments ; like the fool who fancied he played upon the organ , when he only blew the bellows . THOUGH a man may become learned by another's learn- ing ; he never can ...
... SOME would be thought to do great things , who are but tools and inftruments ; like the fool who fancied he played upon the organ , when he only blew the bellows . THOUGH a man may become learned by another's learn- ing ; he never can ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 375 - O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, That I am meek and gentle with these butchers; Thou art the ruins of the noblest man That ever lived in the tide of times. Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood ! Over thy wounds now do I prophesy...
Pàgina 298 - Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot...
Pàgina 213 - Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, And after one hour more 'twill be eleven ; And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot ; And thereby hangs a tale.
Pàgina 327 - How lov'd, how honour'd once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot ; A heap of dust alone remains of thee, 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be ! Poets themselves must fall, like those they sung, Deaf the prais'd ear, and mute the tuneful tongue.
Pàgina 402 - Flushed with a purple grace He shows his honest face: Now give the hautboys breath; he comes, he comes! Bacchus , ever fair and young , Drinking joys did first ordain : Bacchus...
Pàgina 376 - Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil, that men do, lives after them ; The good is oft interred with their bones ; So let it be with Caesar.
Pàgina 274 - Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful Jollity, Quips and cranks, and wanton wiles, Nods and becks, and wreathed smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek ; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides.
Pàgina 255 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike th' inevitable hour. The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Pàgina 378 - O, now you weep; and, I perceive, you feel The dint of pity : these are gracious drops. Kind souls, what ! weep you, when you but behold Our Caesar's vesture wounded ? Look you here, Here is himself, marr'd, as you see, with traitors.
Pàgina 395 - tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law. But 'tis not so above: There is no shuffling; there the action lies In his true nature; and we ourselves compell'd, Even to the teeth and forehead of our faults, To give in evidence.