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 Reading |
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The observations whioh we have to make , for these purposes , may be
comprised under the following heads : Proper loudness of voice ; distinctness ;
slowness ; propriety of pronunciation ; emphasis ; tones ; pausés ; and mode of
reading ...
The observations whioh we have to make , for these purposes , may be
comprised under the following heads : Proper loudness of voice ; distinctness ;
slowness ; propriety of pronunciation ; emphasis ; tones ; pausés ; and mode of
reading ...
Página xiv
If you of practice , there are certainly proper boundaries , within which this
emphasis must be restrained , in order to make ... be very properly some variety
in the use of it ; but its application is not arbitrary , depending on the caprice of
readers .
If you of practice , there are certainly proper boundaries , within which this
emphasis must be restrained , in order to make ... be very properly some variety
in the use of it ; but its application is not arbitrary , depending on the caprice of
readers .
Página xvii
If we enter into the spirit of the author's sentiments , as well as into the meaning of
his words , we shall not fail to deliver the words in properly varied tones . For
there are few people , who speak English without a provincial note , that have not
...
If we enter into the spirit of the author's sentiments , as well as into the meaning of
his words , we shall not fail to deliver the words in properly varied tones . For
there are few people , who speak English without a provincial note , that have not
...
Página 44
What was omitted to be done at its proper moment , arises to be the torment of
some future season . Manhood is disgraced by the consequences of neglected
youth . Old age , oppressed by cares that belonged to a former period , labours ...
What was omitted to be done at its proper moment , arises to be the torment of
some future season . Manhood is disgraced by the consequences of neglected
youth . Old age , oppressed by cares that belonged to a former period , labours ...
Página 141
It . is this , indeed , which gives a value to all the rest ; which sets them at work in
their proper times and places ; and turns them to the advantage of the person
who is possessed of them . Without it , learning is pedantry , and wit impertinence
...
It . is this , indeed , which gives a value to all the rest ; which sets them at work in
their proper times and places ; and turns them to the advantage of the person
who is possessed of them . Without it , learning is pedantry , and wit impertinence
...
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| Título | 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 ... |
| Autor | Lindley Murray |
| Editor | John J. Williams, 1822 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Harvard |
| Digitalizado | 23 Mar 2007 |
| Largo | 264 páginas |
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