The English Reader; Or, Pieces in Prose and Verse, from the Best Writers: Designed to Assist Young Persons to Read with Propriety and Effect; Improve Their Language and Sentiments; and to Inculcate the Most Important Principles of Piety and Virtue. : With a Few Preliminary Observations on the Principles of Good ReadingW. and J. Bolles, 1842 - 252 páginas |
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... wish to become good readers ; and it cannot be too much recom mended to them . Such a pronunciation gives weight and dignity to the sub ject . It is a great assistance to the voice , by the pauses and rests which allows the reader more ...
... wish to become good readers ; and it cannot be too much recom mended to them . Such a pronunciation gives weight and dignity to the sub ject . It is a great assistance to the voice , by the pauses and rests which allows the reader more ...
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... wish to see a minute and ingenious investigation of the nature of these inflections , and the rules by which they are governed , may consult Walker's Elements of Elocution . SECTION VIII . Manner of reading Verse . WHEN we are reading ...
... wish to see a minute and ingenious investigation of the nature of these inflections , and the rules by which they are governed , may consult Walker's Elements of Elocution . SECTION VIII . Manner of reading Verse . WHEN we are reading ...
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... wishes ; and regret , in the last hour , his useless intentions and barren zeal . The spirit of true religion breathes mildness and affability . It gives a native unaffected ease to the behaviour . It is social , kind , and cheerful ...
... wishes ; and regret , in the last hour , his useless intentions and barren zeal . The spirit of true religion breathes mildness and affability . It gives a native unaffected ease to the behaviour . It is social , kind , and cheerful ...
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... wish to pass their last hours with comfort , to lay up such a treasure of pleasing ideas , as shall support the ex- penses of that time , which is to depend wholly upon the fund already acquired . SECTION V. WHAT avails the show of ...
... wish to pass their last hours with comfort , to lay up such a treasure of pleasing ideas , as shall support the ex- penses of that time , which is to depend wholly upon the fund already acquired . SECTION V. WHAT avails the show of ...
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... wishes , and his wish is gratified ; all whom he sees , obey him , and all whom he hears , flatter him . How different , 0 , Ortogrul , is thy condition , who art doomed to the perpetual torments of unsatisfied desire ; and who hast no ...
... wishes , and his wish is gratified ; all whom he sees , obey him , and all whom he hears , flatter him . How different , 0 , Ortogrul , is thy condition , who art doomed to the perpetual torments of unsatisfied desire ; and who hast no ...
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Página 218 - On earth join all ye creatures to extol Him first, him last, him midst, and without end.
Página 230 - Lo, the poor Indian ! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul, proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk, or milky way...
Página 229 - Hope humbly then ; with trembling pinions soar, Wait the great teacher, Death ; and God adore. What future bliss, he gives not thee to know, But gives that hope to be thy blessing now. Hope springs eternal in the human breast : Man never Is, but always to be blest ; The soul, uneasy, and confined from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
Página 230 - Pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes, Men would be Angels, Angels would be Gods. Aspiring to be Gods, if Angels fell, Aspiring to be Angels, Men rebel: And who but wishes to invert the laws Of Order, sins against th
Página 178 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Página 23 - A soft answer turneth away wrath : but grievous words stir up anger.
Página 99 - Now therefore when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad be not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the lad's life...
Página 230 - Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To be, contents his natural desire, He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire ; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
Página 216 - Ten thousand thousand precious gifts My daily thanks employ ; Nor is the least a cheerful heart, That tastes those gifts with joy.
Página 219 - 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. Join voices, all ye living Souls ; ye Birds, That singing up to Heaven's gate ascend, Bear on your wings and in your notes his praise.