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 Reading |
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Page xxiii
... measured . Sometimes it is only a flight and fimple fufpenfion of voice that is proper ; fometimes a degree of cadence in the voice is required ; and fometimes that peculiar tone and cadence which de- note the fentence to be finished ...
... measured . Sometimes it is only a flight and fimple fufpenfion of voice that is proper ; fometimes a degree of cadence in the voice is required ; and fometimes that peculiar tone and cadence which de- note the fentence to be finished ...
Page xxvi
... measure compels us to obferve it in our pronunciation . In refpect to blank verse , we ought alfo to read it so as to make every line fensible of melody , or for what to the ear for , what is the use end has the poet compofed in verse ...
... measure compels us to obferve it in our pronunciation . In refpect to blank verse , we ought alfo to read it so as to make every line fensible of melody , or for what to the ear for , what is the use end has the poet compofed in verse ...
Page 52
... measure which paffion prescribes , would excite re- fentment in return . The injured perfon would become the injurer ; and thus , wrongs , retaliations , and fresh injuries , would circulate in endless fuc- ceffion , till the world was ...
... measure which paffion prescribes , would excite re- fentment in return . The injured perfon would become the injurer ; and thus , wrongs , retaliations , and fresh injuries , would circulate in endless fuc- ceffion , till the world was ...
Page 61
... measure of their continuance on earth , they highly prize it , and with the greatest anxiety seek to lengthen it out . But when they view it in feparate parcels , they appear to hold it in contempt , and fquander it with inconfiderate ...
... measure of their continuance on earth , they highly prize it , and with the greatest anxiety seek to lengthen it out . But when they view it in feparate parcels , they appear to hold it in contempt , and fquander it with inconfiderate ...
Page 66
... measure , all thofe effects which the alchymift ufually aferibes to what he calls the philofopher's ftone ; and if it does not bring riches , it does the fame thing by banifhing the defire of them . If it cannot remove the difquiétudes ...
... measure , all thofe effects which the alchymift ufually aferibes to what he calls the philofopher's ftone ; and if it does not bring riches , it does the fame thing by banifhing the defire of them . If it cannot remove the difquiétudes ...
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