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 ReadingR. Patterson & Lambdin, 1822 - 264 páginas |
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... dark , Illumine : what is low , raise and support . the sense clearly dictates the pause after illumine , at the end of the third syllable , which , in reading , ought to be made accordingly though , if the melody only were to be ...
... dark , Illumine : what is low , raise and support . the sense clearly dictates the pause after illumine , at the end of the third syllable , which , in reading , ought to be made accordingly though , if the melody only were to be ...
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... dark and sluggish water , which is curled by no breeze , and en- livened by no murmur , till it falls into a dead sea , where startled passengers are awakened by the shock , and the next moment buried in the gulf of Oblivion . Of all ...
... dark and sluggish water , which is curled by no breeze , and en- livened by no murmur , till it falls into a dead sea , where startled passengers are awakened by the shock , and the next moment buried in the gulf of Oblivion . Of all ...
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... darkness and sclitude surrounded him : the winds roared in the woods ; and the torrents tumbled from the hills . Thus forlorn and distressed , he wandered through the wild , without knowing whither he was going , or whether he was every ...
... darkness and sclitude surrounded him : the winds roared in the woods ; and the torrents tumbled from the hills . Thus forlorn and distressed , he wandered through the wild , without knowing whither he was going , or whether he was every ...
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... darkness of old age begins to invade us , and disease and anxiety obstruct our way . We then look back upon our lives with horror , with sorrow , with repentance ; and wish , but too often vainly wish , that we had not forsaken the ways ...
... darkness of old age begins to invade us , and disease and anxiety obstruct our way . We then look back upon our lives with horror , with sorrow , with repentance ; and wish , but too often vainly wish , that we had not forsaken the ways ...
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... dark and dreary waste , through which there does not issue a single ray of comfort . Every delusive prospect of ambition is now at an end ; long experience of man- kind , an experience very different from what the open and generous soul ...
... dark and dreary waste , through which there does not issue a single ray of comfort . Every delusive prospect of ambition is now at an end ; long experience of man- kind , an experience very different from what the open and generous soul ...
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Página 181 - Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life; And I shall dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.