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; to 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 ReadingPublished and sold by C. Morse, 1840 - 263 страници |
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... voice , but contain sentences and members of sentences , which are diversified , proportion ed , and pointed with accuracy . Exercises of this nature are , it is pre- sumed , well calculated to teach youth to read with propriety and ef ...
... voice , but contain sentences and members of sentences , which are diversified , proportion ed , and pointed with accuracy . Exercises of this nature are , it is pre- sumed , well calculated to teach youth to read with propriety and ef ...
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... voice in reading , by which he necessary pauses , emphases , and tones , may be discovered and put m practice , is not possible . After all the directions that can be offer- ed on these points , much will remain to be taught by the ...
... voice in reading , by which he necessary pauses , emphases , and tones , may be discovered and put m practice , is not possible . After all the directions that can be offer- ed on these points , much will remain to be taught by the ...
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... Voice . ge- THE fit attention of every person who reads to others , doubtless , must be , to make himself be heard by all those to whom he reads . He must endeavour to fill with his voice the space occupied by the com- pany . This power ...
... Voice . ge- THE fit attention of every person who reads to others , doubtless , must be , to make himself be heard by all those to whom he reads . He must endeavour to fill with his voice the space occupied by the com- pany . This power ...
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... voice will make it reach farther , than the strongest voice can reach without it . To this , therefore , every reader ought to pay great attention . He must give every sound which he utters , its due proportion ; and make every syllable ...
... voice will make it reach farther , than the strongest voice can reach without it . To this , therefore , every reader ought to pay great attention . He must give every sound which he utters , its due proportion ; and make every syllable ...
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... voice , by which we distinguish some word or words , on which we design to lay particu lar stress , and to show how they affect the rest of the sentence . Some times the emphatic words must be distinguished by a particular tone of voice ...
... voice , by which we distinguish some word or words , on which we design to lay particu lar stress , and to show how they affect the rest of the sentence . Some times the emphatic words must be distinguished by a particular tone of voice ...
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Страница 126 - Whereupon, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision ; but shewed first unto them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the coasts of Judea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works meet for repentance.
Страница 207 - OH for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more.
Страница 255 - When even at last the solemn hour shall come, And wing my mystic flight to future worlds, I cheerful will obey; there, with new powers, Will rising wonders sing. I cannot go Where universal love not smiles around, Sustaining all yon orbs, and all their suns; From seeming evil still educing good, And better thence again, and better still, In infinite progression.
Страница 204 - Ye noble few ! who here unbending stand Beneath life's pressure, yet bear up awhile, And what your bounded view, which only saw A little part, deem'd Evil, is no more ; The storms of Wintry Time will quickly pass, And one unbounded Spring encircle all.
Страница 255 - tis nought to me : Since GOD is ever present, ever felt, In the void waste as in the city full ; And where HE vital breathes there must be joy.
Страница 232 - 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. What though, in solemn silence, all Move round the dark terrestrial ball?
Страница 254 - But wandering oft, with brute unconscious gaze, Man marks not Thee, marks not the mighty Hand That, ever busy, wheels the silent spheres ; Works in the secret deep ; shoots, steaming, thence The fair profusion that o'erspreads the Spring...
Страница 195 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep : All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night.
Страница 196 - Which they beheld, the moon's resplendent globe, And starry pole : « Thou also mad'st the night, Maker Omnipotent! and thou the day...
Страница 217 - Ah little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain.