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 ReadingPublished and sold by C. Morse, 1840 - 263 pages |
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... tion , on two , and sometimes more words together . The following sen- tences exemplify both the parts of this position : " If you seek to make one rich , study not to increase his stores , but to diminish his desires . " " The Mexican ...
... tion , on two , and sometimes more words together . The following sen- tences exemplify both the parts of this position : " If you seek to make one rich , study not to increase his stores , but to diminish his desires . " " The Mexican ...
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... tion , or agitation , from the different effects which those ideas produce in the speaker . Now the end of such communication being , not merely to lay open the ideas , but also the different feelings which they excite in him who utters ...
... tion , or agitation , from the different effects which those ideas produce in the speaker . Now the end of such communication being , not merely to lay open the ideas , but also the different feelings which they excite in him who utters ...
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... tion , they occasion disappointment and disgust . But the most frequent and the principal use of pauses , is to mark the divisions of the sense , and at the same time to allow the reader to draw his breath ; and the proper and delicate ...
... tion , they occasion disappointment and disgust . But the most frequent and the principal use of pauses , is to mark the divisions of the sense , and at the same time to allow the reader to draw his breath ; and the proper and delicate ...
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... tion attending the third pause signifies that the sense is completed . The preceding example is an illustration of the suspending pause , in its simple state : the following instance exhibits that pause with a de- gree of cadence in the ...
... tion attending the third pause signifies that the sense is completed . The preceding example is an illustration of the suspending pause , in its simple state : the following instance exhibits that pause with a de- gree of cadence in the ...
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... tion of the nature of these inflections , and the rules by which they ar governed , may consult Walker's Elements of Elocution . SECTION VIII . Manner of reading Verse . WHEN We are reading verse , there is a peculiar difficulty in ...
... tion of the nature of these inflections , and the rules by which they ar governed , may consult Walker's Elements of Elocution . SECTION VIII . Manner of reading Verse . WHEN We are reading verse , there is a peculiar difficulty in ...
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Page 126 - Whereupon, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision ; but shewed first unto them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the coasts of Judea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works meet for repentance.
Page 207 - OH for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more.
Page 255 - When even at last the solemn hour shall come, And wing my mystic flight to future worlds, I cheerful will obey; there, with new powers, Will rising wonders sing. I cannot go Where universal love not smiles around, Sustaining all yon orbs, and all their suns; From seeming evil still educing good, And better thence again, and better still, In infinite progression.
Page 204 - Ye noble few ! who here unbending stand Beneath life's pressure, yet bear up awhile, And what your bounded view, which only saw A little part, deem'd Evil, is no more ; The storms of Wintry Time will quickly pass, And one unbounded Spring encircle all.
Page 255 - tis nought to me : Since GOD is ever present, ever felt, In the void waste as in the city full ; And where HE vital breathes there must be joy.
Page 232 - 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. What though, in solemn silence, all Move round the dark terrestrial ball?
Page 254 - But wandering oft, with brute unconscious gaze, Man marks not Thee, marks not the mighty Hand That, ever busy, wheels the silent spheres ; Works in the secret deep ; shoots, steaming, thence The fair profusion that o'erspreads the Spring...
Page 195 - 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.
Page 196 - Which they beheld, the moon's resplendent globe, And starry pole : « Thou also mad'st the night, Maker Omnipotent! and thou the day...
Page 217 - Ah little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain.