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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... wish to become good readers ; and it cannot be too much recommended to them . Such a pronunciation gives weight and dignity to the subject . It is a great assistance to the voice , by the panses and rests , which it allows the reader ...
... wish to become good readers ; and it cannot be too much recommended to them . Such a pronunciation gives weight and dignity to the subject . It is a great assistance to the voice , by the panses and rests , which it allows the reader ...
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... wish to see a minute and ingenious investigation of the nature of these inflections , and the rules by which they are governed , may consult Walker's Elements of Elocution . SECTION VIII . Manner of reading verse . WHEN WE are reading ...
... wish to see a minute and ingenious investigation of the nature of these inflections , and the rules by which they are governed , may consult Walker's Elements of Elocution . SECTION VIII . Manner of reading verse . WHEN WE are reading ...
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... wishes ; and regret , in the last hour , his useless intentions and barren zeal . The spirit of true religion breathes mildness and af 、 fability . It gives a native , unaffected ease to the be- haviour . It is social , kind , and ...
... wishes ; and regret , in the last hour , his useless intentions and barren zeal . The spirit of true religion breathes mildness and af 、 fability . It gives a native , unaffected ease to the be- haviour . It is social , kind , and ...
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... wish to pass the last hours with comfort , to lay up such a treasure of pleasing ideas , as shall support the expenses of that time , which is to depend wholly upon the fund already acquired . SECTION V. WHAT avails the show of external ...
... wish to pass the last hours with comfort , to lay up such a treasure of pleasing ideas , as shall support the expenses of that time , which is to depend wholly upon the fund already acquired . SECTION V. WHAT avails the show of external ...
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... wishes , and his wish is grat- ified ; all whom he sees obey him , and all whom he hears flatter him . How different , O Ortogrul , is thy condition , who art doomed to the perpetual torments of unsatisfied desire ; and who hast no ...
... wishes , and his wish is grat- ified ; all whom he sees obey him , and all whom he hears flatter him . How different , O Ortogrul , is thy condition , who art doomed to the perpetual torments of unsatisfied desire ; and who hast no ...
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amidst Antiparos appear Archbishop of Cambray attention beauty behold BLAIR blessings Caius Verres character cheerful comforts dark death Democritus Descartes Dionysius distress divine dread earth emphasis enjoy enjoyment envy eternal ev'ry evil fall father feel folly fortune give Greek language ground happiness hast Hazael heart heav'n Heraclitus honour hope human inflection innocence Jugurtha kind king labours live look Lord mankind ment mercy Micipsa mind misery Mount Etna mountain nature nature's never Numidia o'er ourselves pain Pamphylia passions pause peace perfection person pleasure possession pow'r praise present pride prince proper Pythias reading reason religion render rest rich rise scene SECTION SECTION VI sense sentence sentiments shade shine Sicily smile sorrow soul sound spirit spring stancy sweet temper tempest tence thee things thou thought tion vanity vice virtue virtuous voice wisdom wise words youth
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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.