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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... 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 key - and we shall al- ways be able to give most body ...
... 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 key - and we shall al- ways be able to give most body ...
Page xi
... sound judg . ment and correct taste . It will doubtless have different degrees of exertion , according to the greater or less degree of importance of the words upon which it operates : and there may be very properly some variety in the ...
... sound judg . ment and correct taste . It will doubtless have different degrees of exertion , according to the greater or less degree of importance of the words upon which it operates : and there may be very properly some variety in the ...
Page xii
... sound which are employed , in the expres- sion of our sentiments . Emphasis affects particular words and phra- ses , with a degree of tone or inflection of voice ; but tones peculiarly so called , affect sentences , paragraphs and ...
... sound which are employed , in the expres- sion of our sentiments . Emphasis affects particular words and phra- ses , with a degree of tone or inflection of voice ; but tones peculiarly so called , affect sentences , paragraphs and ...
Page xiv
... sound ; and that the understanding may have sufficient time to mark the distinction of sentences , and their several members . There are two kinds of pauses ; first , emphatical pauses ; and next such as mark the distinction of sense ...
... sound ; and that the understanding may have sufficient time to mark the distinction of sentences , and their several members . There are two kinds of pauses ; first , emphatical pauses ; and next such as mark the distinction of sense ...
Page xvi
... sound , as may distinguish the passage from one line to another , without injuring the meaning . The other kinds of melodious pause , is that which falls somewhere about the middle of the verse , and divides it into two hemistichs ; a ...
... sound , as may distinguish the passage from one line to another , without injuring the meaning . The other kinds of melodious pause , is that which falls somewhere about the middle of the verse , and divides it into two hemistichs ; a ...
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Page 208 - He gained from heaven ('twas all he wished) a friend. No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode, (There they alike in trembling hope repose) The bosom of his father and his God.
Page 219 - Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was...
Page 17 - Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st; thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like, sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant: what in me is dark Illumine; what is low, raise and support...
Page 137 - 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 96 - When the ear heard me, then it blessed me ; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me : because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me : and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Page 72 - Two things have I required of thee; deny me them not before I die: Remove far from me vanity and lies; give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me: Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
Page 108 - And when he had thus spoken, he kneeled down, and prayed with them all. And they all wept sore, and fell on Paul's neck, and kissed him, sorrowing most of all for the words which he spake, that they should see his face no more.
Page 202 - For modes of faith, let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in .the right : In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity: All must be false that thwart this one great end ; And all of God, that bless mankind, or mend.
Page 281 - Cease then, nor order imperfection name: Our proper bliss depends on what we blame. Know thy own point: this kind, this due degree Of blindness, weakness, Heav'n bestows on thee. Submit. — In this, or any other sphere, Secure to be as blest as thou canst bear: Safe in the hand of one disposing power, Or in the natal, or the mortal hour.
Page 17 - That changed through all, and yet in all the same, Great in the earth as in the ethereal frame, Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees : Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent...