The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Verse, Form the Best Writers; Designed to Assist Young Persons to Read with Propriety and Effect. With a Few Preliminary Observations on the Principles of Good ReadingW. and J. Bolles, 1834 - 252 páginas |
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... manner which are calculated to arrest the attention of youth ; and to make strong and durable impressions on their minds.t The Compiler has been careful to avoid every expression and sentiment , that might gratify a corrupt mind , or ...
... manner which are calculated to arrest the attention of youth ; and to make strong and durable impressions on their minds.t The Compiler has been careful to avoid every expression and sentiment , that might gratify a corrupt mind , or ...
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... manner , the voice becomes fixed in a strained and unnatural key ; and is rendered inca- pable of that variety of elevation and depression which constitutes the true harmony of utterance , and affords ease to the reader , and pleasure ...
... manner , the voice becomes fixed in a strained and unnatural key ; and is rendered inca- pable of that variety of elevation and depression which constitutes the true harmony of utterance , and affords ease to the reader , and pleasure ...
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... manner of reading , which allows the minds of the hearers to be always out- running the speaker , must render every such performance insipid and fatigu ing . But the extreme of reading too fast is much more common ; and requires the ...
... manner of reading , which allows the minds of the hearers to be always out- running the speaker , must render every such performance insipid and fatigu ing . But the extreme of reading too fast is much more common ; and requires the ...
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... manner more than once , the emphasis would fall on first ; and the line be read , " Of man's first disobedience , " & c . Again , admitting death ( as was really the case ) to have been an unbeard of and dreadful punishment , brought ...
... manner more than once , the emphasis would fall on first ; and the line be read , " Of man's first disobedience , " & c . Again , admitting death ( as was really the case ) to have been an unbeard of and dreadful punishment , brought ...
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... manner can represent only a similar state of mind , perfectly free from all activity and emotion . As the communication of these internal feelings was of inuch more consequence in our social intercourse , than the mere conveyance of ...
... manner can represent only a similar state of mind , perfectly free from all activity and emotion . As the communication of these internal feelings was of inuch more consequence in our social intercourse , than the mere conveyance of ...
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