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 pages |
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Page iv
... manner , which are calculated to arrest the attention of youth ; and to make strong and durable impressions on their minds . † The Compiler has been careful to avoid every expression and sentiment , that might gratify a corrupt mind ...
... manner , which are calculated to arrest the attention of youth ; and to make strong and durable impressions on their minds . † The Compiler has been careful to avoid every expression and sentiment , that might gratify a corrupt mind ...
Page viii
... 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 viii . Introduction .
... 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 viii . Introduction .
Page x
... manner of reading , which allows the minds of the hearers to be always out- running the speaker , must render every such perform- ance insipid and fatiguing . But the extreme of read- ing too fast is much more common : and requires the ...
... manner of reading , which allows the minds of the hearers to be always out- running the speaker , must render every such perform- ance insipid and fatiguing . But the extreme of read- ing too fast is much more common : and requires the ...
Page xi
... manner from what they do at oth- er times . They dwell upon them , and protract them ; they multiply accents on the same word ; from a mis- taken notion , that it gives gravity and importance to their subject , and adds to the energy of ...
... manner from what they do at oth- er times . They dwell upon them , and protract them ; they multiply accents on the same word ; from a mis- taken notion , that it gives gravity and importance to their subject , and adds to the energy of ...
Page xvi
... manner , can represent only a similar state of mind , perfectly free from all activity and emotion.- As the communication of these internal feelings , was of much more consequence in our social intercourse , than the mere conveyance of ...
... manner , can represent only a similar state of mind , perfectly free from all activity and emotion.- As the communication of these internal feelings , was of much more consequence in our social intercourse , than the mere conveyance of ...
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