The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best Writers ...Lincoln and Edmands, 1815 - 264 страници |
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... pleasing variety of voice , which is perceived in uttering a sentence , and which , in its nature , is perfectly distinct from emphasis , and the tones of emotion and passion The young reader should be careful to render his modu lation ...
... pleasing variety of voice , which is perceived in uttering a sentence , and which , in its nature , is perfectly distinct from emphasis , and the tones of emotion and passion The young reader should be careful to render his modu lation ...
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... pleasing . Virtue , to become either vigorous or useful , must be habitually active : not breaking forth occafionally with a tranfient luftre , like the blaze of a comet ; but regular in its returns , like the light of day not like the ...
... pleasing . Virtue , to become either vigorous or useful , must be habitually active : not breaking forth occafionally with a tranfient luftre , like the blaze of a comet ; but regular in its returns , like the light of day not like the ...
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... pleasing him , and all who fhould please him , hopes of being rewarded . Every art of praise was tried , and every fource of adulatory fiction was exhaufted . Ortogrul heard his flatterers without delight , because he found himself ...
... pleasing him , and all who fhould please him , hopes of being rewarded . Every art of praise was tried , and every fource of adulatory fiction was exhaufted . Ortogrul heard his flatterers without delight , because he found himself ...
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... pleasing . For no affumed be- haviour can at all times hide the real character . In that unaffected civility which springs from a gentle mind , there is a charm infinitely more powerful , than in all the studied manners of the most ...
... pleasing . For no affumed be- haviour can at all times hide the real character . In that unaffected civility which springs from a gentle mind , there is a charm infinitely more powerful , than in all the studied manners of the most ...
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... pleasing activity . Numberless occafions open to him of indulging his favourite tafte by conveying fatisfaction to others . Often it is in his power , in one way or other , to foothe the afflicted heart ; to carry fome confo- lation ...
... pleasing activity . Numberless occafions open to him of indulging his favourite tafte by conveying fatisfaction to others . Often it is in his power , in one way or other , to foothe the afflicted heart ; to carry fome confo- lation ...
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