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 ; 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 ReadingDarius Clark, 1821 - 263 páginas |
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... senses than one . The inferior emphasis enforces , graces , and enlivens , but does not fix , the meaning of any passage . The words 10 which this latter emphasis is given , are , in general , such as seem the most important in the ...
... senses than one . The inferior emphasis enforces , graces , and enlivens , but does not fix , the meaning of any passage . The words 10 which this latter emphasis is given , are , in general , such as seem the most important in the ...
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... sense of the passage , and always made alike : but as to the inferior emphasis , taste alone seems to have the right of fixing its situation and quantity . : Among the number of persons , who have had proper opportunities of learning to ...
... sense of the passage , and always made alike : but as to the inferior emphasis , taste alone seems to have the right of fixing its situation and quantity . : Among the number of persons , who have had proper opportunities of learning to ...
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... sense and attention . It is far from being an incon- siderable attainment . It is one of the most decisive trials of a true and just taste ; and must arise from feeling delicately ourselves , and from judging accurately of what is ...
... sense and attention . It is far from being an incon- siderable attainment . It is one of the most decisive trials of a true and just taste ; and must arise from feeling delicately ourselves , and from judging accurately of what is ...
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... sense . An emphatical pause is general- ly made after something has been said of peculiar moment , and on which we desire to fix the hearer's attention . Sometimes before such a thing is said , we usher it in with a pause of this nature ...
... sense . An emphatical pause is general- ly made after something has been said of peculiar moment , and on which we desire to fix the hearer's attention . Sometimes before such a thing is said , we usher it in with a pause of this nature ...
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... sense ; and their correspondent times occa . sionally lengthened beyond what is usual in common speech . To render ... sense : the inflection attending the third pause signifies that the sense is completed , The preceding example is an ...
... sense ; and their correspondent times occa . sionally lengthened beyond what is usual in common speech . To render ... sense : the inflection attending the third pause signifies that the sense is completed , The preceding example is an ...
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Términos y frases comunes
affections Antiparos appear Archbishop of Cambray attention balance of happiness Bayle beauty behold BLAIR blessing Caius Verres cerns character comforts daugh death Democritus Dioclesian distress divine dread earth emphasis enjoy enjoyment envy eternity ev'ry evil eyes father feel folly fortune friendship Fundanus give ground happiness hast Hazael heart heaven Heraclitus honour hope human inflection innocence Jugurtha kind king labours live look Lord mankind manner Micipsa midst mind misery Mount Etna nature never noble Numidia o'er oper countenance ourselves pain passions pause peace persons pleasures possession pow'r praise present pride prince proper Pythias reading reason religion render rest rich riety rise Roman Senate scene SECTION sense sentence shade shining Sicily smile sorrow soul sound spirit suffer temper tempest thee things thou thought tion truth vanity vice virtue virtuous voice wisdom wise words youth
Pasajes populares
Página 225 - Speak, ye who best can tell, ye sons of light, Angels ! for ye behold him, and with songs And choral symphonies, day without night, Circle his throne rejoicing : ye in heaven, On earth join all ye creatures to extol Him first, him last, him midst, and without end.
Página 237 - But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
Página 231 - Soon as the evening shades prevail, The Moon takes up the wondrous tale; And nightly, to the listening Earth, Repeats the story of her birth : Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets, in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Página 194 - With thee conversing, I forget all time; All seasons, and their change, all please alike. Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds...
Página 226 - His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and, wave your tops, ye Pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave. Fountains, and ye that warble, as ye flow, Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise.
Página 184 - Another came; nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he; "The next, with dirges due, in sad array, Slow through the church-way path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
Página 28 - He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see?
Página 28 - Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.
Página 199 - Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
Página 78 - There is not, in my opinion, a more pleasing and triumphant consideration in religion than this, of the perpetual progress which the soul makes towards the perfection of its nature, without ever arriving at a period in it.