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 ReadingIsaac Collins and Son, 1802 - 366 páginas |
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... pleasing variety of voice , which is perceived in uttering a fentence , and which , in its nature , is per- fely diftinct from emphasis , and the tones of emotion and paffion . The young reader fhould be careful to render his modulation ...
... pleasing variety of voice , which is perceived in uttering a fentence , and which , in its nature , is per- fely diftinct from emphasis , and the tones of emotion and paffion . The young reader fhould be careful to render his modulation ...
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... pleasing and expreffive , they must not only be made in the right place , but also accompanied with a proper tone of voice , by which the nature of these pauses is intimated ; much more than by the length of them , which can feldom be ...
... pleasing and expreffive , they must not only be made in the right place , but also accompanied with a proper tone of voice , by which the nature of these pauses is intimated ; much more than by the length of them , which can feldom be ...
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... pleasing adviser , and given up their mind to be the flave of every popular impulfe , I fincere- ly pity : I pity them still more , if their vanity leads them to mistake the fhouts of a mob for the trum- pet of Fame . Experience might ...
... pleasing adviser , and given up their mind to be the flave of every popular impulfe , I fincere- ly pity : I pity them still more , if their vanity leads them to mistake the fhouts of a mob for the trum- pet of Fame . Experience might ...
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... all our feelings . If it makes us more alive to fome painful fenfations , in return , renders the pleasing ones more vivid and animated . it The selfish man languishes in his narrow circle of pleafures 212 Part I. The English Reader .
... all our feelings . If it makes us more alive to fome painful fenfations , in return , renders the pleasing ones more vivid and animated . it The selfish man languishes in his narrow circle of pleafures 212 Part I. The English Reader .
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... pleasing and satisfactory . In the fecond place , I would recommend to every one , the admirable precept , which Pythago- ras is faid to have given to his difciples , and which that philofopher must have drawn from the obfer- vation I ...
... pleasing and satisfactory . In the fecond place , I would recommend to every one , the admirable precept , which Pythago- ras is faid to have given to his difciples , and which that philofopher must have drawn from the obfer- vation I ...
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