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 Seiten |
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... observe , that the Reader and the Sequal , be- sides teaching to read accurately , and inculcating many important sentiments , may be considered as auxiliaries to the Author's English Grammar as practical illustrations of the principles ...
... observe , that the Reader and the Sequal , be- sides teaching to read accurately , and inculcating many important sentiments , may be considered as auxiliaries to the Author's English Grammar as practical illustrations of the principles ...
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... observe that , in the existing publications designed for the peru- sal of young persons , the preponderance is greatly on the side of gay and amusing productions . Too much attention may be paid to this medium of improvement . When the ...
... observe that , in the existing publications designed for the peru- sal of young persons , the preponderance is greatly on the side of gay and amusing productions . Too much attention may be paid to this medium of improvement . When the ...
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... observe , that there may be also an extreme on the opposite side . It is obvious that a lifeless , drawling manner of reading , which allows the minds of the hearers to be always outrunning the speaker , must render every such ...
... observe , that there may be also an extreme on the opposite side . It is obvious that a lifeless , drawling manner of reading , which allows the minds of the hearers to be always outrunning the speaker , must render every such ...
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... observe , that the mind , in communicating its ideas , is in a constant state of activi- ty , emotion , or agitation , from the different effects which those ideas produce in the speaker . Now the end of such communication being not ...
... observe , that the mind , in communicating its ideas , is in a constant state of activi- ty , emotion , or agitation , from the different effects which those ideas produce in the speaker . Now the end of such communication being not ...
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... 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 for what end has the poet composed in verse , if in reading his ...
... 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 for what end has the poet composed in verse , if in reading his ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 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.
Seite 237 - But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 28 - He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see?
Seite 28 - Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.