ENFIELD, William.

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The Speaker: or, Miscellaneous Pieces, selected from the Best English Writers Early edition (Speaker), first edition (Exercises), of these best-selling anthologies on elocution, recognized by the Monthly Review as "a valuable miscellany". In these works, William Enfield (1741-1797), a utilitarian minister and lecturer at Warrington's dissenting academy in Lancashire, collects extracts from classical and contemporary authors, including Shakespeare, Milton, Pope, and Cato, to serve as models for young readers.This edition of The Speaker is apparently unrecorded in ESTC, which identifies one octavo edition in 1774, with 376 pages. The present edition, by contrast, has 421, adding Sterne's Story of Le Fever at the start of Book VI.

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