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 ReadingM. Bartgis, 1819 - 252 sider |
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... pain ; and whenever a person speaks with pain to himself , he is also heard with pain by his audience . Let us therefore give the voice full strength and swell of sound ; but always pitch it on our ordinary speaking key . It should be a ...
... pain ; and whenever a person speaks with pain to himself , he is also heard with pain by his audience . Let us therefore give the voice full strength and swell of sound ; but always pitch it on our ordinary speaking key . It should be a ...
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... pain would permit , till the clock struck : then with vehe- mence he exclaimed : " Oh ! time ! time ! It is fit thou shouldst thus strike thy murderer to the heart ! -How art thou fled forever ! -A month ! -Oh , for a single week ! I ...
... pain would permit , till the clock struck : then with vehe- mence he exclaimed : " Oh ! time ! time ! It is fit thou shouldst thus strike thy murderer to the heart ! -How art thou fled forever ! -A month ! -Oh , for a single week ! I ...
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... pain , Their native shelter they regain ; There sit , and now discreeter grown , Too late their rashness they bemoan ; And this by dear experience gain , That pleasure's ever bought with pain . 3. So when the gilded baits of vice Are ...
... pain , Their native shelter they regain ; There sit , and now discreeter grown , Too late their rashness they bemoan ; And this by dear experience gain , That pleasure's ever bought with pain . 3. So when the gilded baits of vice Are ...
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Character of Alfred king of England | 89 |
On the slavery of vice 91 | 92 |
Gentleness | 93 |
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