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 ReadingCollins and Company, 1817 - 253 oldal |
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v. oldal
... manner , which are calcu- lated to arrest the attention of youth ; and to make strong and durable impressions on their minds . † The Compiler has been careful to avoid every ex- pression and sentiment , that might gratify a corrupt mind ...
... manner , which are calcu- lated to arrest the attention of youth ; and to make strong and durable impressions on their minds . † The Compiler has been careful to avoid every ex- pression and sentiment , that might gratify a corrupt mind ...
xiii. oldal
... manner , the voice becomes fixed in a strained and unnatural key ; and is rendered incapable of that variety of elevation and depression , which constitutes the true harmony of utterance , and affords ease to the reader , and pleasure ...
... manner , the voice becomes fixed in a strained and unnatural key ; and is rendered incapable of that variety of elevation and depression , which constitutes the true harmony of utterance , and affords ease to the reader , and pleasure ...
xiv. oldal
... manner of reading , which allows the minds of the hearers to be always outrunning the speaker , must render every such per- formance insipid and fatiguing . But the extreme of reading too fast 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 such per- formance insipid and fatiguing . But the extreme of reading too fast is much more common ; and requires the more ...
xvi. oldal
... manner from what they do at other times . They dwell upon them , and protract them ; they multiply accents on the same word ; from a mistaken notion , that it gives gravity and importance to their subject , 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 same word ; from a mistaken notion , that it gives gravity and importance to their subject , and adds to the energy of ...
xviii. oldal
... manner more than once , the emphasis would fall on first ; and the line be read , “ Of man's first disobedience , " & c . Again , admitting death ( as was really the case ) to have been an unheard - of and dreadful punishment , brought ...
... manner more than once , the emphasis would fall on first ; and the line be read , “ Of man's first disobedience , " & c . Again , admitting death ( as was really the case ) to have been an unheard - of and dreadful punishment , brought ...
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