The English Reader, Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Best Writers ; Designed to Assist Young Persons to Read with Propriety and Effect ; Improve Their Language and Sentiments ; and to Inculcate Some of the Most Important Principles of Piety and Virtue : with a Few Preliminary Observations on the Principles of Good ReadingDarius Clark, 1821 - 263 sivua |
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Sivu iii
... thing is accommo- dated to the understanding and the voice ; and the common difficul ties in learning to read well are obviated . When the learner has ac- quired a habit of reading such sentences , with justness and facility , he will ...
... thing is accommo- dated to the understanding and the voice ; and the common difficul ties in learning to read well are obviated . When the learner has ac- quired a habit of reading such sentences , with justness and facility , he will ...
Sivu vi
... things which are different , loudness or strength of sound , with the key or note in which we speak . There is a variety of sound within the compass of each key . A speaker may therefore render his voice louder , without altering the ...
... things which are different , loudness or strength of sound , with the key or note in which we speak . There is a variety of sound within the compass of each key . A speaker may therefore render his voice louder , without altering the ...
Sivu x
... thing to be found in common discourse ; and even sometimes throw it upon words so very trifling in themselves , that it ... things , not words : they exhibit images to the eye , not ideas to the understand- ing . " Some sentences are so ...
... thing to be found in common discourse ; and even sometimes throw it upon words so very trifling in themselves , that it ... things , not words : they exhibit images to the eye , not ideas to the understand- ing . " Some sentences are so ...
Sivu xi
... thing he expresses of high importance , by a multitude of strong emphasis , we soon learn to pay little regard to them . To crowd every sentence with emphatical words , is like crowding all the pages of a book with Italic characters ...
... thing he expresses of high importance , by a multitude of strong emphasis , we soon learn to pay little regard to them . To crowd every sentence with emphatical words , is like crowding all the pages of a book with Italic characters ...
Sivu xii
... things . For when reading becomes strictly imitative , it assumes a theatrical manner , and must be highly improper , as well as give of- fence to the hearers ; because it is inconsistent with that delicacy and modesty , which are ...
... things . For when reading becomes strictly imitative , it assumes a theatrical manner , and must be highly improper , as well as give of- fence to the hearers ; because it is inconsistent with that delicacy and modesty , which are ...
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affections Antiparos appear Archbishop of Cambray attention balance of happiness Bayle beauty behold BLAIR blessing Caius Verres cerns character comforts daugh death Democritus Dioclesian distress divine dread earth emphasis enjoy enjoyment envy eternity ev'ry evil eyes father feel folly fortune friendship Fundanus give ground happiness hast Hazael heart heaven Heraclitus honour hope human inflection innocence Jugurtha kind king labours live look Lord mankind manner Micipsa midst mind misery Mount Etna nature never noble Numidia o'er oper countenance ourselves pain passions pause peace persons pleasures possession pow'r praise present pride prince proper Pythias reading reason religion render rest rich riety rise Roman Senate scene SECTION sense sentence shade shining Sicily smile sorrow soul sound spirit suffer temper tempest thee things thou thought tion truth vanity vice virtue virtuous voice wisdom wise words youth
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Sivu 225 - Speak, ye who best can tell, ye sons of light, Angels ! for ye behold him, and with songs And choral symphonies, day without night, Circle his throne rejoicing : ye in heaven, On earth join all ye creatures to extol Him first, him last, him midst, and without end.
Sivu 237 - But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
Sivu 231 - Soon as the evening shades prevail, The Moon takes up the wondrous tale; And nightly, to the listening Earth, Repeats the story of her birth : Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets, in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Sivu 194 - With thee conversing, I forget all time; All seasons, and their change, all please alike. Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds...
Sivu 226 - His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and, wave your tops, ye Pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave. Fountains, and ye that warble, as ye flow, Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise.
Sivu 184 - Another came; nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he; "The next, with dirges due, in sad array, Slow through the church-way path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
Sivu 28 - He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see?
Sivu 28 - Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.
Sivu 199 - Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
Sivu 78 - There is not, in my opinion, a more pleasing and triumphant consideration in religion than this, of the perpetual progress which the soul makes towards the perfection of its nature, without ever arriving at a period in it.