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 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα v
... ourselves and others , from a clear communication of ideas and feelings ; and the strong and durable impressions made thereby on the minds of the reader and the audience , are considerations , which give additional importance to the ...
... ourselves and others , from a clear communication of ideas and feelings ; and the strong and durable impressions made thereby on the minds of the reader and the audience , are considerations , which give additional importance to the ...
Σελίδα vi
... ourselves less compass , and are likely to strain our voice before we have done . We shall fatigue ourselves , and read with pain ; and whenever a per- son speaks with pain to himself , he is always heard with pain by his audience . Let ...
... ourselves less compass , and are likely to strain our voice before we have done . We shall fatigue ourselves , and read with pain ; and whenever a per- son speaks with pain to himself , he is always heard with pain by his audience . Let ...
Σελίδα vii
... ourselves distinctly , moderation is requisite with regard to the speed of pronouncing . Precipitancy of speech confounds all articulation , and all meaning . It is scarcely necessary to observe , that there may be also an extreme on ...
... ourselves distinctly , moderation is requisite with regard to the speed of pronouncing . Precipitancy of speech confounds all articulation , and all meaning . It is scarcely necessary to observe , that there may be also an extreme on ...
Σελίδα xi
... ourselves , and from judging accurately of what is fittest to strike the feelings of others . There is one error , against which it is particularly proper to cau- tion the learner ; namely , that of multiplying emphatical words too much ...
... ourselves , and from judging accurately of what is fittest to strike the feelings of others . There is one error , against which it is particularly proper to cau- tion the learner ; namely , that of multiplying emphatical words too much ...
Σελίδα xiii
... ourselves in ordinary , sensible conversation ; and not upon the stiff artificial manner , which is acquired from reading books according to the common punctuation . It will by no means be suffi cient to attend to the points used in ...
... ourselves in ordinary , sensible conversation ; and not upon the stiff artificial manner , which is acquired from reading books according to the common punctuation . It will by no means be suffi cient to attend to the points used in ...
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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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Σελίδα 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.
Σελίδα 237 - But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
Σελίδα 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.
Σελίδα 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...
Σελίδα 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.
Σελίδα 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.
Σελίδα 28 - He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see?
Σελίδα 28 - Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.
Σελίδα 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.
Σελίδα 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.