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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... regard to the speed of pronouncing . Precipitancy of speech confounds all articulation , and all meaning . It is scarcely necessary to observe , that there may be also an extreme on the opposite side . It is obvious that a lifeless ...
... regard to the speed of pronouncing . Precipitancy of speech confounds all articulation , and all meaning . It is scarcely necessary to observe , that there may be also an extreme on the opposite side . It is obvious that a lifeless ...
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... regard to meaning . Emphasis also , in particular cases , alters the seat of the accent . This is demonstrable from the following examples . " He shall increase , but I shall decrease . " " There is a difference between giving and ...
... regard to meaning . Emphasis also , in particular cases , alters the seat of the accent . This is demonstrable from the following examples . " He shall increase , but I shall decrease . " " There is a difference between giving and ...
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... regard to them . To crowd every sentence with emphatical words , is like crowding all the pages of a book with Italic characters ; which as to the effect , is just the same as to use no such distinctions at all . SECTION VI . Tones ...
... regard to them . To crowd every sentence with emphatical words , is like crowding all the pages of a book with Italic characters ; which as to the effect , is just the same as to use no such distinctions at all . SECTION VI . Tones ...
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... regard to the closing pause it admits of both . The falling inflection generally accompa- nies it ; but it is not unfrequently connected with the rising inflec- tion . Interrogative sentences , for instance , are often terminated in ...
... regard to the closing pause it admits of both . The falling inflection generally accompa- nies it ; but it is not unfrequently connected with the rising inflec- tion . Interrogative sentences , for instance , are often terminated in ...
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... regard to the pause at the end of the line , which marks that strain or verse to be finished , rhyme renders this always sensible ; and in some measure compels us to observe it in our pronunciation . In respect to blank verse , we ought ...
... regard to the pause at the end of the line , which marks that strain or verse to be finished , rhyme renders this always sensible ; and in some measure compels us to observe it in our pronunciation . In respect to blank verse , we ought ...
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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
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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.