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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Página xix
... render pauses pleasing and expressive , they must not on- ly be made in the right place , but also accompanied with a pro- per tone of voice , by which the nature of these pauses is inti- mated ; much more than by the length of them ...
... render pauses pleasing and expressive , they must not on- ly be made in the right place , but also accompanied with a pro- per tone of voice , by which the nature of these pauses is inti- mated ; much more than by the length of them ...
Página xxi
... renders this always sensible : and in some measure compels us to observe it in our pronunciation . In respect to blank verse , we ought also to read it , so as to make eve- ry line sensible to the ear ; for , what is the use of melody ...
... renders this always sensible : and in some measure compels us to observe it in our pronunciation . In respect to blank verse , we ought also to read it , so as to make eve- ry line sensible to the ear ; for , what is the use of melody ...
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... renders it difficult to read such lines harmoniously . The rule of proper pronunciation in such cases , is , to regard on- ly the pause which the sense forms ; and to read the line accordingly . The neglect of the cæsural pause may make ...
... renders it difficult to read such lines harmoniously . The rule of proper pronunciation in such cases , is , to regard on- ly the pause which the sense forms ; and to read the line accordingly . The neglect of the cæsural pause may make ...
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... render even external manners truly pleasing . Virtue , to become either vigorous or useful , must be habitually ... renders it healthful , The happiness of every man depends more upon the state of his own mind . than upon any one ...
... render even external manners truly pleasing . Virtue , to become either vigorous or useful , must be habitually ... renders it healthful , The happiness of every man depends more upon the state of his own mind . than upon any one ...
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... render a good man more illus- trious but an ill one more contemptible . Vice is in- famous , though in a prince ; and virtue honorable , though in a peasant . An elevated genius , employed in little things , ap- pears ( to use the ...
... render a good man more illus- trious but an ill one more contemptible . Vice is in- famous , though in a prince ; and virtue honorable , though in a peasant . An elevated genius , employed in little things , ap- pears ( to use the ...
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