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 viii
est pitch of his voice , in order to be well heard in a large company . This is
confounding two things which are different , loudness or strength of sound , with
the key or note on which we speak . There is a variets of sound , within the
compass of ...
est pitch of his voice , in order to be well heard in a large company . This is
confounding two things which are different , loudness or strength of sound , with
the key or note on which we speak . There is a variets of sound , within the
compass of ...
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The genius of the language requires the voice to mark that syllable by a stronger
percussion , and to pass more slightly over the rest . Now , after we have learned
the proper seats of these accents , it is an important rule , to give every word just ...
The genius of the language requires the voice to mark that syllable by a stronger
percussion , and to pass more slightly over the rest . Now , after we have learned
the proper seats of these accents , it is an important rule , to give every word just ...
Página xviii
PAUses or rests , in speaking or reading , are a tolal cessa . tion of the voice ,
during a perceptible , and , in many cases , a measurable space of time . Pauses
are equally necessary to the speaker and the hearer . To the speaker , that he
may ...
PAUses or rests , in speaking or reading , are a tolal cessa . tion of the voice ,
during a perceptible , and , in many cases , a measurable space of time . Pauses
are equally necessary to the speaker and the hearer . To the speaker , that he
may ...
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Jy be made in the right place , but also accompanied with a proper tone of voice ,
by which the nature of these pauses is inti . mated ; much more than by the length
of them , which can sel . dom be exactly measured . Sometimes it is only a ...
Jy be made in the right place , but also accompanied with a proper tone of voice ,
by which the nature of these pauses is inti . mated ; much more than by the length
of them , which can sel . dom be exactly measured . Sometimes it is only a ...
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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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