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 ReadingC. Spaulding, 1821 - 253 páginas |
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... pause may be thus attended with both the rising and the falling inflection , it is the same with regard to the closing pause : it admits of both . The falling inflection generally accompanies it ; but it is not unfrequently connected ...
... pause may be thus attended with both the rising and the falling inflection , it is the same with regard to the closing pause : it admits of both . The falling inflection generally accompanies it ; but it is not unfrequently connected ...
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... pauses that belong to the melody of verse : one is , the pause at the end of the line ; and the other , the cæsural pause in or near the middle of it . With regard to the pause at the end of the line , which marks the strain or verse to ...
... pauses that belong to the melody of verse : one is , the pause at the end of the line ; and the other , the cæsural pause in or near the middle of it . With regard to the pause at the end of the line , which marks the strain or verse to ...
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... pause not made till the fourth or sixth syllable . So in the following line of Pope's Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot , " I sit , with sad civility I read : " the ear plainly points out the casural pause as falling after sad , the fourth ...
... pause not made till the fourth or sixth syllable . So in the following line of Pope's Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot , " I sit , with sad civility I read : " the ear plainly points out the casural pause as falling after sad , the fourth ...
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... pauses , inflections , and modulations of voice , which the succeeding pieces require.- The Author's " English Exercises , " under the head of Punctua- tion , wil ' afford the learned additional scope for improving him- self in reading ...
... pauses , inflections , and modulations of voice , which the succeeding pieces require.- The Author's " English Exercises , " under the head of Punctua- tion , wil ' afford the learned additional scope for improving him- self in reading ...
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... paused for a time , and began to consider whether it were longer safe to forsake the known and common track ; but remembering that the heat was now in its greatest violence , and that the plain was dusty and uneven , he resolved to ...
... paused for a time , and began to consider whether it were longer safe to forsake the known and common track ; but remembering that the heat was now in its greatest violence , and that the plain was dusty and uneven , he resolved to ...
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The English Reader, Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry: From the Best Writers ... Lindley Murray Visualização completa - 1819 |
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affections ancholy Antiparos appear Archbishop of Cambray attention beauty behold BLAIR blessing Caius Verres cerns character comforts dark death delight Democritus Dioclesian distress divine dread earth emphasis enjoy enjoyment envy eternal ev'ry evil father feel folly fortune friendship Fundanus gentle give ground happiness hast Hazael heart heaven Heraclitus honor hope human inflection innocence Jugurtha kind king labors lence live look Lord mankind ment mercy Micipsa midst mind misery Mount Etna mountains nature never noble Numidia o'er ourselves pain Pamphylia passions pause peace perfect person pleasure possession pow'r praise present pride proper Pythias reading reason religion render rest rich rise Roman Senate scene SECTION sense sentence sentiments shade shining Sicily smile sorrow soul sound spirit tears temper tempest thee things thou thought tion truth vanity vice virtue virtuous voice wisdom wise words youth
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Página 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.
Página 249 - Around, how wide ! how deep extend below ! Vast chain of being ! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach ; from infinite to thee, From thee to nothing.
Página 190 - ... sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but .the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was...
Página 196 - A little learning is a dangerous thing ; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring : There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again.
Página 230 - Lord my pasture shall prepare, And feed me with a shepherd's care ; His presence shall my wants supply, And guard me with a watchful eye ; My noon-day walks he shall attend, And all my midnight hours defend.
Página 205 - Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free ; They touch our country, and their shackles fall.
Página 113 - And now I stand, and am judged for the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers; unto which promise our twelve tribes, instantly serving God day and night, hope to come; for which hope's sake, King Agrippa I am accused of the Jews.
Página 225 - Join voices, all ye living Souls; ye Birds, That singing up to Heaven gate ascend, Bear on your wings and in your notes his praise. Ye that in waters glide, and ye that walk » The earth, and stately tread, or lowly creep, Witness if I be silent, morn or even, To hill or valley, fountain, or fresh shade, Made vocal by my song, and taught his praise.
Página 250 - Great in the earth, as in the ethereal frame; Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees; 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...
Página 244 - Through this day's life or death ! This day, be bread and peace my lot All else beneath the sun, Thou know'st if best bestow'd or not, And let Thy will be done.