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 ReadingPublished and sold by C. Morse, 1840 - 263 pagini |
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Pagina 10
... render his voice louder , without altering the key and we shall always be able to give most body , most persevering force of sound , to that pitch of voice , to which in conversation we are accustomed . Whereas by setting out on our ...
... render his voice louder , without altering the key and we shall always be able to give most body , most persevering force of sound , to that pitch of voice , to which in conversation we are accustomed . Whereas by setting out on our ...
Pagina 11
... render every such performance insipid and fatiguing . But the extreme of reading too fast is much more common , and requires the more to be guarded against , be cause , when it has grown into a habit , few errors are more difficult to ...
... render every such performance insipid and fatiguing . But the extreme of reading too fast is much more common , and requires the more to be guarded against , be cause , when it has grown into a habit , few errors are more difficult to ...
Pagina 12
... render every thing he expresses of high importance , by a multitude of strong em phases , we soon learn to pay little regard to them . To crowd every sentence with emphatical words , is like crowding all the pages of a book with Italic ...
... render every thing he expresses of high importance , by a multitude of strong em phases , we soon learn to pay little regard to them . To crowd every sentence with emphatical words , is like crowding all the pages of a book with Italic ...
Pagina 15
... 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 intimated ; much more than by the length of them , which ...
... 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 intimated ; much more than by the length of them , which ...
Pagina 26
... render even external manners truly pleasing . Virtue , to become either vigorous or useful , must be habitually active : not breaking forth occasionally with a transient lustre , like the blaze of a comet ; but regular in its returns ...
... render even external manners truly pleasing . Virtue , to become either vigorous or useful , must be habitually active : not breaking forth occasionally with a transient lustre , like the blaze of a comet ; but regular in its returns ...
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Pagina 126 - Whereupon, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision ; but shewed first unto them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the coasts of Judea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works meet for repentance.
Pagina 207 - OH for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more.
Pagina 255 - When even at last the solemn hour shall come, And wing my mystic flight to future worlds, I cheerful will obey; there, with new powers, Will rising wonders sing. I cannot go Where universal love not smiles around, Sustaining all yon orbs, and all their suns; From seeming evil still educing good, And better thence again, and better still, In infinite progression.
Pagina 204 - Ye noble few ! who here unbending stand Beneath life's pressure, yet bear up awhile, And what your bounded view, which only saw A little part, deem'd Evil, is no more ; The storms of Wintry Time will quickly pass, And one unbounded Spring encircle all.
Pagina 255 - tis nought to me : Since GOD is ever present, ever felt, In the void waste as in the city full ; And where HE vital breathes there must be joy.
Pagina 232 - 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. What though, in solemn silence, all Move round the dark terrestrial ball?
Pagina 254 - But wandering oft, with brute unconscious gaze, Man marks not Thee, marks not the mighty Hand That, ever busy, wheels the silent spheres ; Works in the secret deep ; shoots, steaming, thence The fair profusion that o'erspreads the Spring...
Pagina 195 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep : All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night.
Pagina 196 - Which they beheld, the moon's resplendent globe, And starry pole : « Thou also mad'st the night, Maker Omnipotent! and thou the day...
Pagina 217 - Ah little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain.