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 ReadingIsaac Collins and Son, 1802 - 366 sider |
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Side v
... manner , which are calculated to arrest the at- tention of youth ; and to make strong and durable impreffions on their minds . * THE Compiler has been careful to avoid every expreffion and fentiment , that might gratify a cor- rupt mind ...
... manner , which are calculated to arrest the at- tention of youth ; and to make strong and durable impreffions on their minds . * THE Compiler has been careful to avoid every expreffion and fentiment , that might gratify a cor- rupt mind ...
Side x
... manner , the voice becomes fixed in a strained and unnatural key ; and is rendered incapable of that va- riety of elevation and depreffion , which conftitutes the true harmony of utterance , and affords eafe to the reader , and pleasure ...
... manner , the voice becomes fixed in a strained and unnatural key ; and is rendered incapable of that va- riety of elevation and depreffion , which conftitutes the true harmony of utterance , and affords eafe to the reader , and pleasure ...
Side xi
... manner of reading , which allows the minds of the hearers to be always outrunning the speaker , must render every fuch performance infipid and fatiguing . But the extreme of reading too faft is much more common ; and requires the more ...
... manner of reading , which allows the minds of the hearers to be always outrunning the speaker , must render every fuch performance infipid and fatiguing . But the extreme of reading too faft is much more common ; and requires the more ...
Side xiii
... manner from what they do at other times . They dwell upon them , and protract them ; they multiply accents on the fame word ; from a mistaken notion , that it gives gravity and importance to their fub- ject , and adds to the energy of ...
... manner from what they do at other times . They dwell upon them , and protract them ; they multiply accents on the fame word ; from a mistaken notion , that it gives gravity and importance to their fub- ject , and adds to the energy of ...
Side xiv
... manner more than once , the emphasis would fall on firft ; and the line be read , " Of man's firft difobedience , " & c . Again , admitting death ( as was really the cafe ) to have been an unheard - of and dreadful punishment , brought ...
... manner more than once , the emphasis would fall on firft ; and the line be read , " Of man's firft difobedience , " & c . Again , admitting death ( as was really the cafe ) to have been an unheard - of and dreadful punishment , brought ...
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