Murray's English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best Writers ... With a Few Preliminary Observations on the Principles of Good Reading; Improved by the Addition of a Concordant and Synonymising Vocabulary ... Divided, Defined, and Pronounced According to the Principles of John Walker ... Walker's Pronouncing Key, which Governs the Vocabulary, is Prefixed to this WorkSamuel Newton, 1825 - 302 páginas |
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... is usual in com- mon speech . 66 To render pauses pleasing and expressive , they must not only be made in the right place , but also accompanied with a proper tone of voice , by which the nature of these pauses is INTRODUCTION . xix.
... is usual in com- mon speech . 66 To render pauses pleasing and expressive , they must not only be made in the right place , but also accompanied with a proper tone of voice , by which the nature of these pauses is INTRODUCTION . xix.
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... 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 every line sensible to the ear : for , what is the use of melody , or ...
... 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 every line sensible to the ear : for , what is the use of melody , or ...
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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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... , by enervating them , ends gen- erally in misery . Title and ancestry render a good man ous ; but an ill one , more contemptible . more illustri- Vice is infa- mous , though in a prince ; and virtue honourable 34 Part I. ENGLISH READER .
... , by enervating them , ends gen- erally in misery . Title and ancestry render a good man ous ; but an ill one , more contemptible . more illustri- Vice is infa- mous , though in a prince ; and virtue honourable 34 Part I. ENGLISH READER .
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... rendered the receptacle of many repugnant " and jarring dispositions ; and resem- bles some barbarous country , cantoned out into different principalities , which are continually waging war on one another . Diseases , poverty ...
... rendered the receptacle of many repugnant " and jarring dispositions ; and resem- bles some barbarous country , cantoned out into different principalities , which are continually waging war on one another . Diseases , poverty ...
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Página 293 - Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent: Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part, As full, as perfect, in a hair as heart; As full, as perfect, in vile man that mourns, As the rapt seraph that adores and burns: To him no high, no low, no great, no small; He fills, he bounds, connects, and equals all.
Página 281 - Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To be, contents his natural desire, He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire ; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
Página 266 - Through hidden dangers, toils, and deaths, it gently clear'd my way, And through the pleasing snares of vice, more to be fear'd than they.
Página 112 - When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me: 'Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. 'The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Página 102 - As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.
Página 266 - WHEN all thy mercies, O my God! My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view, I'm lost In wonder, love, and praise.
Página 244 - I would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polished manners and fine sense Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.
Página 132 - And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you. And they came near. And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt. Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life.
Página 293 - All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good: And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right.
Página 281 - Pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes, Men would be Angels, Angels would be Gods. Aspiring to be Gods, if Angels fell, Aspiring to be Angels, Men rebel: And who but wishes to invert the laws Of Order, sins against th