The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best Writers ... |
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To give rules for the management of the voice in reading , by which the
necessary pauses , emphasis , and tones may be discova ered and put in
practice , is not possible . After all the directions that can be offered on these
points , much will ...
To give rules for the management of the voice in reading , by which the
necessary pauses , emphasis , and tones may be discova ered and put in
practice , is not possible . After all the directions that can be offered on these
points , much will ...
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Voice . The first attention of every person who reads to others , doubtless , muft
be , to make himself be heard by all those to whom he reads He must endeavour
to fill with his voice the space occupied by the company . This power of voice , it ...
Voice . The first attention of every person who reads to others , doubtless , muft
be , to make himself be heard by all those to whom he reads He must endeavour
to fill with his voice the space occupied by the company . This power of voice , it ...
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This unnatural pitch of the voice , and disagreeable monotony , are moft
observable in persons who were taught to read in large rooms ; who were
accustomed to stand at too great a distance , when reading to their teachers ;
whose instructers ...
This unnatural pitch of the voice , and disagreeable monotony , are moft
observable in persons who were taught to read in large rooms ; who were
accustomed to stand at too great a distance , when reading to their teachers ;
whose instructers ...
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It is a great assistance to the voice , by the pauses and rests which it allows the
reader more easily to make ; and it enables the reader to swell all his sounds ,
both with more force and more harmony . SECTION IV . Propriety of
Pronunciation .
It is a great assistance to the voice , by the pauses and rests which it allows the
reader more easily to make ; and it enables the reader to swell all his sounds ,
both with more force and more harmony . SECTION IV . Propriety of
Pronunciation .
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It is a great mistake to imagine , that the breath must be drawn only at the end of a
period , when the voice is allowed to fall . It may easily be gathered at the
intervals of the period , when the voice is suspended only for a moment ; and , by
this ...
It is a great mistake to imagine , that the breath must be drawn only at the end of a
period , when the voice is allowed to fall . It may easily be gathered at the
intervals of the period , when the voice is suspended only for a moment ; and , by
this ...
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Página 227 - Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn, Sure pledge of day, that crown'st the smiling morn With thy bright circlet, praise Him in thy sphere, While day arises, that sweet hour of prime.
Página 239 - Lo! the poor Indian, whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk, or milky way...
Página 206 - tis madness to defer: Next day the fatal precedent will plead ; Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life. Procrastination is the thief of time; Year after year it steals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene.
Página 209 - Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free; They touch our country and their shackles fall.
Página 188 - Here rests his head upon the lap of earth A youth, to fortune and to fame unknown: Fair science frown'd not on his humble birth, And melancholy mark'd him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere...
Página 253 - THESE, as they change, ALMIGHTY FATHER, these Are but the varied God. The rolling year Is full of THEE. Forth in the pleasing Spring THY beauty walks, THY tenderness and love. Wide flush the fields ; the softening air is balm ; Echo the mountains round ; the forest smiles ; And every sense, and every heart is joy. Then comes THY glory in the Summer months, With light and heat refulgent.
Página 224 - Ten thousand thousand precious gifts My daily thanks employ ; Nor is the least a cheerful heart, That tastes those gifts with joy.
Página 174 - Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, And drink thy wine with a merry heart ; For God now accepteth thy works.
Página 223 - Ye winds, that have made me your sport, Convey to this desolate shore Some cordial endearing report Of a land I shall visit no more. My friends, do they now and then send A wish or a thought after me ? O tell me I yet have a friend, Though a friend I am never to see.
Página 128 - Having therefore obtained help of God, I continue unto this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying none other things than those which the prophets and Moses did say should come...