Lessons in Elocution: Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse, for the Improvement of Youth in Reading and Speaking |
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... Keswick in Cumberland , Brown , 115 8. Pity , an allegory , Aitkin , 118 9. Advantages of commerce , Spectator , 119 10. On public speaking , ib . 121 11. Advantages of history , Hume , 123 Curiatii , 12. On the immortality of the soul ...
... Keswick in Cumberland , Brown , 115 8. Pity , an allegory , Aitkin , 118 9. Advantages of commerce , Spectator , 119 10. On public speaking , ib . 121 11. Advantages of history , Hume , 123 Curiatii , 12. On the immortality of the soul ...
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... Keswick , in Cumberland . BROWN . THIS delightful vale is thus elegantly described by the late ingenious Dr. Brown , in a letter to a friend . } In my way to the north , from Hagley , I passed through Dovedale ; and to say the truth ...
... Keswick , in Cumberland . BROWN . THIS delightful vale is thus elegantly described by the late ingenious Dr. Brown , in a letter to a friend . } In my way to the north , from Hagley , I passed through Dovedale ; and to say the truth ...
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... Keswick , which exceeds them more in grandeur than you can imagine ; and more , if possible , in beauty than in grandeur . Instead of a narrow slip of valley , which is seen at Dovedale , you have at Keswick a vast ampitheatre , in ...
... Keswick , which exceeds them more in grandeur than you can imagine ; and more , if possible , in beauty than in grandeur . Instead of a narrow slip of valley , which is seen at Dovedale , you have at Keswick a vast ampitheatre , in ...
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... Keswick , would require the united powers of Claude , Salvator and Poussin . The first should throw his delicate sunshine over the cultivated vales , the scattered cots , the groves , the lake , and wooded islands . The second should ...
... Keswick , would require the united powers of Claude , Salvator and Poussin . The first should throw his delicate sunshine over the cultivated vales , the scattered cots , the groves , the lake , and wooded islands . The second should ...
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