The English Reader Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best Writers ...: With a Few Preliminary Observations on the Principles of Good Reading |
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... falling inflection , it is the same with regard to the closing pause it admits of both . The falling inflection ... fall in our way almost every day of our lives . " Those evil spirits , who , by long custom , have contracted in the ...
... falling inflection , it is the same with regard to the closing pause it admits of both . The falling inflection ... fall in our way almost every day of our lives . " Those evil spirits , who , by long custom , have contracted in the ...
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... fall or elevation of the voice , it should be denoted only by so slight a suspension of sound , as may distinguish the passage from one line to another , without injuring the meaning . The other kind of melodious pause , is that which falls ...
... fall or elevation of the voice , it should be denoted only by so slight a suspension of sound , as may distinguish the passage from one line to another , without injuring the meaning . The other kind of melodious pause , is that which falls ...
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... fall of a hun- dred and fifty feet perpendicular . It is not easy to bring the imagination to correspond to the ... fall is heard at the distance of several leagues ; and the fury of the waters , at the termination of their fall , is in ...
... fall of a hun- dred and fifty feet perpendicular . It is not easy to bring the imagination to correspond to the ... fall is heard at the distance of several leagues ; and the fury of the waters , at the termination of their fall , is in ...
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of future felicity | 80 |
Cicero against Verres | 91 |
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