The English Reader; Or Pieces in Prose and Poetry Selected from the Best Writers ...: With a Few Preliminary Observations on the Principles of Good Reading |
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... thing is accommodated to the understanding and the voice ; and the common difficulties in learning to read well are obviated . When the learner has acquireu a nabit o reading such sentences , with justness and facility , he will readily ...
... thing is accommodated to the understanding and the voice ; and the common difficulties in learning to read well are obviated . When the learner has acquireu a nabit o reading such sentences , with justness and facility , he will readily ...
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... things which are different , loudness or strength of sound , with the key or note on which we speak . There is a variety of sound within the compass of each key . A speaker may therefore render his voice louder , without altering the ...
... things which are different , loudness or strength of sound , with the key or note on which we speak . There is a variety of sound within the compass of each key . A speaker may therefore render his voice louder , without altering the ...
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... carry it far beyond Auy thing to be found in common discourse ; and even sometimes throw t upou words so very trifling in themselves , that it is evidently with no other view , than to give greater variety INTRODUCTION .
... carry it far beyond Auy thing to be found in common discourse ; and even sometimes throw t upou words so very trifling in themselves , that it is evidently with no other view , than to give greater variety INTRODUCTION .
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... things not words : they exhibit images to the eye not ideas to the understanding . " Some sentences are so full and ... thing he expresses of high importance , by a multitude of strong em phases , we soon learn to pay little regard to ...
... things not words : they exhibit images to the eye not ideas to the understanding . " Some sentences are so full and ... thing he expresses of high importance , by a multitude of strong em phases , we soon learn to pay little regard to ...
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... things . For when vading ; 203000ps strictly imitative , it assumes a theatrical manner . and must be by improper ... thing is said , we usher it in with a pause of this nature . Such pauses have the same effect as a strong emphasis ...
... things . For when vading ; 203000ps strictly imitative , it assumes a theatrical manner . and must be by improper ... thing is said , we usher it in with a pause of this nature . Such pauses have the same effect as a strong emphasis ...
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Page 253 - 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 224 - Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn, Sure pledge of day, that crown'st the smiling morn With thy bright circlet, praise Him in thy sphere, While day arises, that sweet hour of prime.
Page 251 - THESE, as they change, ALMIGHTY FATHER, these Are but the varied God. The rolling year Is full of THEE. Forth in the pleasing Spring THY beauty walks, THY tenderness and love. Wide flush the fields ; the softening air is balm ; Echo the mountains round ; the forest smiles ; And every sense, and every heart is joy.
Page 193 - 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 205 - I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.
Page 193 - With thee conversing I forget all time ; All seasons and their change, all please alike. Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds...
Page 181 - Live while you live, the Epicure would say, And seize the pleasures of the present day. Live while you live, the sacred Preacher cries, And give to God each moment as it flies.
Page 225 - Of Nature's womb, that in quaternion run Perpetual circle, multiform ; and mix And nourish all things; let your ceaseless change Vary to our great Maker still new praise. Ye Mists and Exhalations, that now rise From hill or steaming lake, dusky or gray, ' Till the sun paint your fleecy skirts with gold, In honour to the world's great Author rise...
Page 183 - 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.
Page 252 - Works in the secret deep ; shoots, steaming, thence The fair profusion that o'erspreads the Spring ; Flings from the Sun direct the flaming day; Feeds every creature ; hurls the tempest forth ; And, as on earth this grateful change revolves. With transport touches all the springs of life.