The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best Authors. 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 ReadingN. Burrill, 1818 - 263 páginas |
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... render his voice louder , with- out altering the key : and we shall always be able to give most body , most ... rendered incapable of that variety of elevation and depression which constitutes the true harmony of utterance , and affords ...
... render his voice louder , with- out altering the key : and we shall always be able to give most body , most ... rendered incapable of that variety of elevation and depression which constitutes the true harmony of utterance , and affords ...
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... render every such performance insipid and fatiguing . But the extreme of reading too fast is much more common , and requires the more to be guarded against , because , when it has grown into a habit , few errors are more difficult to be ...
... render every such performance insipid and fatiguing . But the extreme of reading too fast is much more common , and requires the more to be guarded against , because , when it has grown into a habit , few errors are more difficult to be ...
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... rendered heavy and lifeless , but the meaning left often ambiguous . If the emphasis be placed wrong , we pervert and confound the meaning wholly . Emphasis may be divided into the Superior and the Inferior emphasis . The superior ...
... rendered heavy and lifeless , but the meaning left often ambiguous . If the emphasis be placed wrong , we pervert and confound the meaning wholly . Emphasis may be divided into the Superior and the Inferior emphasis . The superior ...
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... render every thing he expresses of bigh importance , by a multitude of strong emphasis , we soon learn to pay ittle regard to them . To crowd every sentence with emphatical words , is like crowding all the pages of a book with Italic ...
... render every thing he expresses of bigh importance , by a multitude of strong emphasis , we soon learn to pay ittle regard to them . To crowd every sentence with emphatical words , is like crowding all the pages of a book with Italic ...
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... render pauses pleasing and expressive , they must not only be made in the right place , but also accompanied with a proper tone of voice , by which the nature of these pauses is intimated ; much more than by the length of them , which ...
... render pauses pleasing and expressive , they must not only be made in the right place , but also accompanied with a proper tone of voice , by which the nature of these pauses is intimated ; much more than by the length of them , which ...
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