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 Improtant Principles of Piety and Virtue. With a Few Preliminary Observations on the Principles of Good ReadingJ. Griffin, 1823 - 252 páginas |
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... common conversation , and which he should generally use in reading to others . For it is a great mistake , to imagine that one must take the highest pitch of his voice , in order to be well heard in a large company . This is confounding ...
... common conversation , and which he should generally use in reading to others . For it is a great mistake , to imagine that one must take the highest pitch of his voice , in order to be well heard in a large company . This is confounding ...
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... common , and requires the more to be guarded against , because , when it has grown into a habit , few errors are more difficult to be corrected . To pronounce with a proper degree of slowness , and with full and clear ar- ticulation ...
... common , and requires the more to be guarded against , because , when it has grown into a habit , few errors are more difficult to be corrected . To pronounce with a proper degree of slowness , and with full and clear ar- ticulation ...
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... common discourse . Many persons err in this respect . When they read to others , and with solemnity , they pronounce the syllables in a differ- ent manner from what they do at other times . They dwell upon them and protract them ; they ...
... common discourse . Many persons err in this respect . When they read to others , and with solemnity , they pronounce the syllables in a differ- ent manner from what they do at other times . They dwell upon them and protract them ; they ...
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... common discourse ; and even sometimes throw it upon words so very trifling in themselves , that it is evidently done with no other view , than to give greater variety to the modulation . * Notwithstanding this diversity of practice ...
... common discourse ; and even sometimes throw it upon words so very trifling in themselves , that it is evidently done with no other view , than to give greater variety to the modulation . * Notwithstanding this diversity of practice ...
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... common speach , but , in some degree more faintly characterised . Let those tones which signify any disagreea- le passions of the mind be still more faint than those which indicate agreeable emotions ; and , on all occasions , preserve ...
... common speach , but , in some degree more faintly characterised . Let those tones which signify any disagreea- le passions of the mind be still more faint than those which indicate agreeable emotions ; and , on all occasions , preserve ...
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Términos y frases comunes
affections Antiparos appear Archbishop of Cambray attention beauty behold BLAIR blessing Caius Verres character cheerful comfort death delight Democritus Dioclesian distress divine dread earth emphasis enjoy enjoyment envy eternal ev'ry evil fall father fear feel folly fortune Fundanus give Greek language ground Haman happiness hast Hazael heart heaven Heraclitus honour hope human inflection Jugurtha kind king labours live look Lord mankind mercy Micipsa midst mind misery mountain nature nature's never noble Numidia o'er ourselves pain Pamphylia passions pause peace perfect persons phasis pleasure possession pow'r praise present pride proper Pythias reading reason religion render rest rich rise Roman Senate rowding scene SECTION sense sentence sentiments shade shine Sicily smile sorrow soul sound spirit spring sweet temper tempest thee things thou thought tion tones truth vanity vice virtue voice wisdom wise words youth
Pasajes populares
Página 246 - The work of an Almighty hand. Soon as the ev'ning shades prevail, The moon takes up the wond'rous tale, And, nightly, to the list'ning earth, Repeats the story of her birth: Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, •And spread the truth from pole to pole. Confirm the
Página 201 - Horrible discord; and the madding wheels Of brazen fury rag'd. Battle. -Arms on armour clashing bray'd Sound imitating reluctance. for who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd; left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind ? SECTION VI. PARAGRAPHS
Página 37 - Faithful are the wounds of a friend ; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful. Open rebuke is better than secret love. Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit ? There is more hope of a fool than of him. He that is slow to anger, is
Página 145 - Solomon, my son, know thou the God of thy fathers ; and serve him with a perfect heart, and with a willing mind. For the Lord searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts If thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.
Página 139 - that God should raise the dead? 1 verily thought with myself, that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth : and this I did in Jerusalem. Many of the saints I shut up in prison, having received authority from the chief priests: and when they were put to death,
Página 209 - men were none, That heav'n would want spectators, God want praise ; Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleeps .All these with ceaseless praise his works behold,! Both day and night. How often, from the steep - Of echoing
Página 252 - Wait the great teacher Death ; and God adore. What future bliss he gives not thee to know, But gives that hope to be thy blessing now. Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never is, but always to be blest. The soul, uneasy, and
Página 140 - I would to God, that not only thou, but also all that hear me this day, were both almost, and altogether such as I am, except these bonds."* acts xxvi. SECTION IV. Lord Mansfield's speech in the House of Peers, 1770, on the bill for preventing the delays of justice, by claiming the Privilege of Parliament.
Página xx - Glows' in the stars", and blossoms in the trees ; "Lives', through all life"; extends'through all extent, " Spreads' undivided ', operates' unspent.' Before the conclusion of this introduction, the Compiler takes the liberty to, recommend to teachers, to exercise their pupils in discovering and explaining the emphatic
Página 198 - not on his humble birtb, And Melancholy mark'd him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere, Heaven did a recompense as largely send : He gave to mis'ry all he had—a tear; He gain'd from Heaven ('twas all he wish'd) a