The English Reader, Or, Pieces in Prose and PoetryJ. D. Bemis and Company, 1822 - 272 páginas |
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Página iv
... manner which are calculated to arrest the attention of youth ; and to make strong and durable impressions on their minds.t The Compiler has been careful to avoid every expression and sentiment , that might gratify a corrupt mind , or ...
... manner which are calculated to arrest the attention of youth ; and to make strong and durable impressions on their minds.t The Compiler has been careful to avoid every expression and sentiment , that might gratify a corrupt mind , or ...
Página vii
... manner , the voice becomes fixed in a strained and unnatural key ; and is render- ed incapable of that variety of elevation and depression which consti- tutes 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 render- ed incapable of that variety of elevation and depression which consti- tutes the true harmony of utterance , and affords ease to the reader , and pleasure ...
Página viii
... manner of reading , which allows the minds of the hearers to be always outrunning the speaker , must render every such performance 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 performance insipid and fatiguing . But the extreme of reading too fast is much more common , and requires the more ...
Página ix
... manner ; and gives an artificial , affected air to reading , which detracts greatly both from its agreeableness and its im- pression . Sheridan and Walker have published Dictionaries , for ascertaining the true and best pronunciation of ...
... manner ; and gives an artificial , affected air to reading , which detracts greatly both from its agreeableness and its im- pression . Sheridan and Walker have published Dictionaries , for ascertaining the true and best pronunciation of ...
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... manner it is now taught , very few could be selected , who , in a given instance , would use the inferior emphasis alike , either as to place or quantity . Some persons , indeed , use scarcely any degree of it ; and others do not ...
... manner it is now taught , very few could be selected , who , in a given instance , would use the inferior emphasis alike , either as to place or quantity . Some persons , indeed , use scarcely any degree of it ; and others do not ...
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Términos y frases comunes
affections Antiparos appear Archbishop of Cambray attention Bayle beauty behold blessing Caius Verres character cheerful comfort dark death delight Democritus Dioclesian distress divine dread earth enjoy enjoyment envy eternal ev'ry evil fall father fear feel folly fortune Fundanus give Greek language ground hand happiness hast Hazael heart heav'n Heraclitus honor hope human indulge inflection innocence Jugurtha kind king labors live look Lord mankind mercy Micipsa midst mind misery Mount Etna nature never noble Numidia o'er ourselves pain passions pause peace perfect 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 smiles sorrow soul sound spirit stancy suffer temper tempest thee things thou thought tion truth vanity vice virtue virtuous voice wisdom wise words youth