The English ReaderDavid Clark, 1828 - 252 pages |
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... thing is accom modated to the understanding and the voice ; and the common difficulties in learning to read well are obviated . When the learner has acquired a habit of reading such sentences , with justness and facility , he will ...
... thing is accom modated to the understanding and the voice ; and the common difficulties in learning to read well are obviated . When the learner has acquired a habit of reading such sentences , with justness and facility , he will ...
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... things which are dif- ferent , loudness or strength of sound , with the key or note in which we speak . There is a variety of sound within the compass of each key . A speaker may therefore render his voice louder , without altering the ...
... things which are dif- ferent , loudness or strength of sound , with the key or note in which we speak . There is a variety of sound within the compass of each key . A speaker may therefore render his voice louder , without altering the ...
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... thing to be found in com- mon discourse ; and even sometimes throw it upon words so very trifling in themselves , that ... things , not words ; " they exhibit images to the eye , not ideas to the understanding . " Some sentences are so ...
... thing to be found in com- mon discourse ; and even sometimes throw it upon words so very trifling in themselves , that ... things , not words ; " they exhibit images to the eye , not ideas to the understanding . " Some sentences are so ...
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... thing he expresses , of high import- ance , by a multitude of strong emphasis , we soon learn to pay little regard to them . To crowd every sentence with emphatical words , is like crowding all the pages of a book with italic characters ...
... thing he expresses , of high import- ance , by a multitude of strong emphasis , we soon learn to pay little regard to them . To crowd every sentence with emphatical words , is like crowding all the pages of a book with italic characters ...
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... things . For when the read- nig becomes strictly imitative , it assumes a theatrical manner , and must be highly ... thing is said , we usher it in with a pause of this nature . Such pauses have the same effect as a strong emphasis ; and ...
... things . For when the read- nig becomes strictly imitative , it assumes a theatrical manner , and must be highly ... thing is said , we usher it in with a pause of this nature . Such pauses have the same effect as a strong emphasis ; and ...
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affections Antiparos appear attention balance of happiness Bayle beauty behold BLAIR blessing Caius Verres character cheerful comfort dark death delight Democritus Dioclesian distress divine dread earth enjoy enjoyment envy eternity ev'ry evil eyes father favour feel folly fortune friendship Fundanus gentle give Greek language ground happiness hast Hazael heart heaven Heraclitus honour hope human indulge inflection innocent Jugurtha kind king labours live look Lord mankind ment mercy Micipsa midst mind misery Mount Etna nature never noble Numidia o'er objects ourselves pain pass passions pause peace persons phemed pleasures possession pow'r praise present pride prince proper Pythias racter reason religion render rest rich rise Roman Senate scene SECTION sense shade shining Sicily smile sorrow soul sound spirit stancy suffer temper tempest tence thee things thought tion truth vanity vice virtue virtuous voice wisdom wise youth
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Page 183 - No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode, (There they alike in trembling hope repose,) The bosom of his Father and his God.
Page 248 - 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.
Page 245 - Cease then, nor order imperfection name; Our proper bliss depends on what we blame. Know thy own point: this kind this due degree Of blindness, weakness, Heav'n bestows on thee. Submit. — In this, or any other sphere, Secure to be as blest as thou canst bear: Safe in the hand of one disposing Power, Or in the natal, or the mortal hour.
Page 193 - With thee conversing I forget all time ; All seasons and their change, all please alike. Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds...
Page 198 - I would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polished manners and fine sense Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.
Page 222 - By shameful variance betwixt man and man. How many pine in want, and dungeon glooms, Shut from the common air, and common use Of their own limbs...
Page 194 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep : All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night. How often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each to other's note, Singing their great Creator...
Page 223 - Of Nature's womb, that in quaternion run Perpetual circle, multiform; and mix And nourish all things; let your ceaseless change Vary to our great Maker still new praise. Ye mists and exhalations that now rise From hill or steaming lake, dusky or gray, Till the sun paint your fleecy skirts with gold, In honour to the world's great Author rise, Whether to deck with clouds th' uncolour'd sky, Or wet the thirsty earth with falling showers, Rising or falling still advance his praise.
Page 192 - 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...
Page 245 - Great in the earth, as in the ethereal frame; Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees, Lives through all life, extends through all extent Spreads undivided, operates unspent, Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part, As full, as perfect, in a hair as heart, As full, as perfect, in vile man that mourns, As the rapt seraph that adores and burns; To him no high, no low, no great, no small; He fills, he bounds, connects, and equals all.