The Speaker; Or, Miscellaneous Pieces from the Best English Writers ...: To which is Prefixed an Essay on Elocution |
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I know of nothing that such a speaker can so properly be compared to , as an alarum - bell , which , when once set a going , clatters on till the weight tḥat moves it is run down . Without pauses , the sense must always appear confused ...
I know of nothing that such a speaker can so properly be compared to , as an alarum - bell , which , when once set a going , clatters on till the weight tḥat moves it is run down . Without pauses , the sense must always appear confused ...
第 24 頁
When once you profess yourself a friend , endeavour to be always such . He can never have any true friends , that : will be often changing them . Prosperity gains friends , and adversity tries them . Nothing more engages the affections ...
When once you profess yourself a friend , endeavour to be always such . He can never have any true friends , that : will be often changing them . Prosperity gains friends , and adversity tries them . Nothing more engages the affections ...
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Sbining characters are not always the most agreeable ones . The mild radiance of an emerald , is by no means less pleasing than the glare of the ruby . To be at once a rake , and to glory in the character , discovers at the same time a ...
Sbining characters are not always the most agreeable ones . The mild radiance of an emerald , is by no means less pleasing than the glare of the ruby . To be at once a rake , and to glory in the character , discovers at the same time a ...
第 32 頁
The eye of the critic is often like , a microscope , made so very fine and nice , that it discovers the atoms , grains , and minutest particles , without ever comprehending the whole , comparing the parts , or seeing all at once the ...
The eye of the critic is often like , a microscope , made so very fine and nice , that it discovers the atoms , grains , and minutest particles , without ever comprehending the whole , comparing the parts , or seeing all at once the ...
第 35 頁
... but being lack'd and lost , Why then we reck the value ; then we find The virtue that possession would not show us Whilst it was ours : Cowards die many times before their deaths ; The valiant never taste of death but once .
... but being lack'd and lost , Why then we reck the value ; then we find The virtue that possession would not show us Whilst it was ours : Cowards die many times before their deaths ; The valiant never taste of death but once .
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