The National Fifth Reader: Containing a Complete and Practical Treatise on Elocution ...: With Biographical Sketches, and Copious Notes: Adapted to the Use of Students in Literature, Book 5A.S. Barnes & Company, 1871 - 581 pages |
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Page 82
... kind art , Such beauty and beneficence ' combined ; Shade , unperceived , so softening into shade ; And all so forming a harmonious whole , That , as they still succeed , they ravish still . 3 2 4. But wandering oft , with brute ...
... kind art , Such beauty and beneficence ' combined ; Shade , unperceived , so softening into shade ; And all so forming a harmonious whole , That , as they still succeed , they ravish still . 3 2 4. But wandering oft , with brute ...
Page 236
... kind , which seem to leave no doubt that the analogies of sound have had some influence on the formation of words . At the same time , in all speculations of this kind , there is so much room for fancy to operate , that they ought to be ...
... kind , which seem to leave no doubt that the analogies of sound have had some influence on the formation of words . At the same time , in all speculations of this kind , there is so much room for fancy to operate , that they ought to be ...
Page 449
... kind of imposture , I got a speech by heart , and doubtlèss it might have been a very pretty ' one , only I forgot every syllable at the moment of need , and had to improvise another as well as I could . I found it a better method to ...
... kind of imposture , I got a speech by heart , and doubtlèss it might have been a very pretty ' one , only I forgot every syllable at the moment of need , and had to improvise another as well as I could . I found it a better method to ...
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