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 ReadingR. Patterson & Lambdin, 1822 - 264 páginas |
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Página xviii
... raise expectation , if the importance of the matter be not fully answerable to such expectation , they occasion disappoint- ment and disgust . But the most frequent and the principal use of pauses , is to mark the divisions of the sense ...
... raise expectation , if the importance of the matter be not fully answerable to such expectation , they occasion disappoint- ment and disgust . But the most frequent and the principal use of pauses , is to mark the divisions of the sense ...
Página xxii
... raise and support . the sense clearly dictates the pause after illumine , at the end of the third syllable , which , in reading , ought to be made accordingly though , if the melody only were to be regarded , illumine should be ...
... raise and support . the sense clearly dictates the pause after illumine , at the end of the third syllable , which , in reading , ought to be made accordingly though , if the melody only were to be regarded , illumine should be ...
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... raises within , and by the mischiefs which it occasions without , it gen- erally brings , on the passionate and revengeful man , greater misery than he can bring on the object of his resentment . The palace of virtue has , in all ages ...
... raises within , and by the mischiefs which it occasions without , it gen- erally brings , on the passionate and revengeful man , greater misery than he can bring on the object of his resentment . The palace of virtue has , in all ages ...
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... raised to a sit- uation which flatters his passions , but which corrupts his prin- ciples , disorders his temper , and , finally , oversets his virtue ? What misery does the vicious man secretly endure ! Ad- versity how blunt are all ...
... raised to a sit- uation which flatters his passions , but which corrupts his prin- ciples , disorders his temper , and , finally , oversets his virtue ? What misery does the vicious man secretly endure ! Ad- versity how blunt are all ...
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... Raised to greatness with . out merit , he employed his power solely for the gratification of his passions . As the honours which he possessed were next to royal , his pride was every day fed with that servile homage , which is peculiar ...
... Raised to greatness with . out merit , he employed his power solely for the gratification of his passions . As the honours which he possessed were next to royal , his pride was every day fed with that servile homage , which is peculiar ...
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Página 181 - Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life; And I shall dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.