The English Reader, Or Pieces in Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Best Writers ...L. Lockwood, 1815 - 262 páginas |
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... pauses , emphasis and tones , may be discov- put in practice , is not possible . After all the direc- can be offered on these points , much will remain to be the living instructer : much will be attainable by no ns , than the force of ...
... pauses , emphasis and tones , may be discov- put in practice , is not possible . After all the direc- can be offered on these points , much will remain to be the living instructer : much will be attainable by no ns , than the force of ...
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... Pauses ; and Mode of Reading Verse . • SECTION I. — PROPER LOUDNESS OF VOICE . · The first attention of every person who reads to others , doubt- less , must be , to make himself be heard by all those to whom he reads . He must ...
... Pauses ; and Mode of Reading Verse . • SECTION I. — PROPER LOUDNESS OF VOICE . · The first attention of every person who reads to others , doubt- less , must be , to make himself be heard by all those to whom he reads . He must ...
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... pauses and rests which it allows the reader more easily to make ; and it enables the reader to swell all his sounds , both with more force and more harmony . SECTION IV . - PROPRIETY OF PRONUNCIATION . 1 AFTER the fundamental attentions ...
... pauses and rests which it allows the reader more easily to make ; and it enables the reader to swell all his sounds , both with more force and more harmony . SECTION IV . - PROPRIETY OF PRONUNCIATION . 1 AFTER the fundamental attentions ...
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... pauses ; consist- ing in the notes or variations of sound which we employ , in the expression of our sentiments . Emphasis affects particularly words and phrases , with a degree of tone or inflection of voice ; but tones , particularly ...
... pauses ; consist- ing in the notes or variations of sound which we employ , in the expression of our sentiments . Emphasis affects particularly words and phrases , with a degree of tone or inflection of voice ; but tones , particularly ...
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... PAUSES . PAUSES or rests , in speaking or reading , are a total cessation : of the voice , during a perceptible , and in many cases , a measurable space of time . Panses are equally necessary to the speaker , and the hearer . To the ...
... PAUSES . PAUSES or rests , in speaking or reading , are a total cessation : of the voice , during a perceptible , and in many cases , a measurable space of time . Panses are equally necessary to the speaker , and the hearer . To the ...
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affections Antiparos appear Archbishop of Cambray attention beauty behold BLAIR blessing Caius Verres character comforts dark death Democritus Dioclesian distress divine dread earth English Reader enjoy enjoyment envy eternity ev'ry evil father favour feel folly fortune friendship gentle give ground happiness hast Hazael heart heaven Hephaestion Heraclitus honour hope human inflection innocence Jugurtha kind king labours ligion live look mankind manner Masinissa ment Micipsa midst mind misery Mount Etna nature never Numidia o'er objects ourselves pain Pamphylia passions pause peace perfect person philosopher pleasure possession pow'r praise present pride prince proper Pythias racter reading reason religion render rest riches rise Roman ROMAN SENATE scene SECTION sense shade shining Sicily smile sorrow soul sound spirit temper tempest thee things thought tion truth Tuning sweet vanity virtue virtuous voice whole wisdom wise words youth
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Página 234 - THE 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 noonday walks He shall attend, . And all my midnight hours defend.
Página 210 - 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 34 - And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind : for the LORD searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.
Página 197 - Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds ; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew ; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers ; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild ; then silent night, With this her solemn bird, and this fair moon, And these the gems of heaven, her starry train...
Página 224 - Religion ! what treasure untold Resides in that heavenly word ! More precious than silver and gold, Or all that this earth can afford.
Página 196 - Had in her 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 125 - And I said, Who art thou, Lord? And he said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest. But rise, and stand upon thy feet: for I have appeared unto thee for this purpose, to make thee a minister and a witness both of these things which thou hast seen, and of those things in the which I will appear unto thee...
Página 198 - 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. How often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each to other's note, Singing their great Creator ! oft in bands While they keep watch, or nightly rounding walk, With heavenly touch of instrumental sounds, In full harmonic number join'd, their songs Divide the night,...
Página 192 - Had cheer'd the village with his song, Nor yet at eve his note suspended, Nor yet when eventide was ended, Began to feel, as well he might, The keen demands of appetite ; When, looking eagerly around, He spied far off, upon the ground, A something shining in the dark, And knew the glowworm by his spark ; So stooping down from hawthorn top, He thought to put him in his crop. The worm, aware of his intent, Harangued him thus, right eloquent — Did you admire my lamp...
Página 124 - 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.