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 ReadingEvert Duyckinck, 1810 - 231 oldal |
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iii. oldal
... voice , but con- tain sentences , and members of sentences , which are diversified , pro- portioned , and pointed with accuracy . Exercises of this nature are , it is presumed , well calculated to teach youth to read with propriety and ...
... voice , but con- tain sentences , and members of sentences , which are diversified , pro- portioned , and pointed with accuracy . Exercises of this nature are , it is presumed , well calculated to teach youth to read with propriety and ...
v. oldal
... Voice ; Distinctness ; Slowness ; Propriety of Pronun ciation ; Emphasis ; Tones ; Pauses ; and Mode of Reading Verse . SECTION 1 - PROPER LOUDNESS OF VOICE . The first attention of every person who reads to others , doubtless , must be ...
... Voice ; Distinctness ; Slowness ; Propriety of Pronun ciation ; Emphasis ; Tones ; Pauses ; and Mode of Reading Verse . SECTION 1 - PROPER LOUDNESS OF VOICE . The first attention of every person who reads to others , doubtless , must be ...
vi. oldal
... voice . Every person has three pitches in his voice ; the HIGH , the MIDDLE , and the Low one . The high , is that which he uses in calling aloud to some person at a distance . The low is when he approaches to a whisper . The middle is ...
... voice . Every person has three pitches in his voice ; the HIGH , the MIDDLE , and the Low one . The high , is that which he uses in calling aloud to some person at a distance . The low is when he approaches to a whisper . The middle is ...
vii. oldal
... voice will make it reach farther , than the strongest voice can reach without it . To this , therefore , every reader ought to pay great attention . He must give every sound which he utters its due proportion ; and make every syllable ...
... voice will make it reach farther , than the strongest voice can reach without it . To this , therefore , every reader ought to pay great attention . He must give every sound which he utters its due proportion ; and make every syllable ...
viii. oldal
... voice , by which we distinguish some word or words , on which we design to lay par- ticular stress , and to shew how they affect the rest of the sentence . Sometimes the emphatic words must be distinguished by a particular tone of voice ...
... voice , by which we distinguish some word or words , on which we design to lay par- ticular stress , and to shew how they affect the rest of the sentence . Sometimes the emphatic words must be distinguished by a particular tone of voice ...
Gyakori szavak és kifejezések
ADHERBAL ANTIPAROS appear Archbishop of Cambray attention beauty behold BLAIR blessing Caius Verres cendant character cheer comforts dark death Democritus Dioclesian distress divine dread earth enjoy enjoyment envy eternity ev'ry evil fall father feel folly fortune gentle give ground Haman happiness hast Hazael heart heaven Heraclitus honour hope human inflection innocence Jugurtha king labours LADY JANE GREY live look Lord mankind mercy Micipsa midst mind misery Mount Etna nature never noble Numidia o'er ourselves pain passions pause peace perfection person pleasure possession pow'r praise present pride prince proper Pythias reading reason religion render rest rich rise ROMAN SENATE scene SECTION sense sentence sentiments shade shining Sicily smile sorrow soul sound spirit spring stancy sweet tears temper tempest thee things thou thought tion truth vanity vice virtue virtuous voice wisdom wise words youth
Népszerű szakaszok
225. oldal - THE Lord my pasture shall prepare, And feed me with a shepherd's care ; His presence shall my wants supply, And guard me with a watchful eye ; My noonday walks He shall attend, . And all my midnight hours defend.
202. oldal - 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.
178. oldal - 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.
238. oldal - What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This, teach me more than Hell to shun, That, more than Heaven pursue.
219. oldal - Ah! little think the gay licentious proud, "Whom pleasure, power, and affluence surround ; They who their thoughtless hours in giddy mirth And wanton, often cruel, riot waste ;— Ah ! little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain...
189. oldal - 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 pleased: now...
118. oldal - I think myself happy, king Agrippa, because I shall answer for myself this day before thee, touching all the things whereof I am accused of the Jews. Especially, because I know thee to be expert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews; wherefore I beseech thee to hear me patiently.
185. oldal - He spied far off upon the ground, A something shining in the dark, And knew the glow-worm by his spark. So, stooping down from hawthorn top, He thought to put him in his crop. The worm, aware of his intent, Harangued him thus right eloquent :
238. oldal - Let not this weak unknowing hand Presume thy bolts to throw, And deal damnation round the land On each I judge thy foe. If I am right, thy grace impart, Still in the right to stay ; If I am wrong, O teach my heart To find that better way.
248. oldal - 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.