THE ENGLISH READERManahan, Hoag & Company, 1827 |
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... render his voice louder , without altering the key ; and we shall always NOTE . For many of the observations contained in this preliminary tract , the author is indebted to the writings of Dr. Blair , and to the Encyclopedia Britannica ...
... render his voice louder , without altering the key ; and we shall always NOTE . For many of the observations contained in this preliminary tract , the author is indebted to the writings of Dr. Blair , and to the Encyclopedia Britannica ...
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... rendered inca- pable of that variety of elevation and depression which constitutes the true harmony of utterance ... render every such performance insipid and fatigu ing . But the extreme of reading too fast is much more common ; and ...
... rendered inca- pable of that variety of elevation and depression which constitutes the true harmony of utterance ... render every such performance insipid and fatigu ing . But the extreme of reading too fast is much more common ; and ...
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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 auperior ...
... 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 auperior ...
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... render his modulation correct and easy ; and , for this purpose , should form it upon the model of the most judiciaus and accurate speakers , writing , represent things , not words ; they exhibit INTRODUCTION . 7 Charity,
... render his modulation correct and easy ; and , for this purpose , should form it upon the model of the most judiciaus and accurate speakers , writing , represent things , not words ; they exhibit INTRODUCTION . 7 Charity,
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... render every thing he expresses , of high importance , 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 ...
... render every thing he expresses , of high importance , 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 ...
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Common terms and phrases
Antiparos appear Archbishop of Cambray attention Bayle beauty behold BLAIR blessing bliss breast Caius Verres cheerful dark death delight Democritus Dioclesian distress divine dread earth enjoy enjoyment envy eternal ev'ry evil eyes father favour fear feel folly fortune friendship Fundanus give ground hand happiness hast Hazael heart heav'n Heraclitus honour hope human indulge innocence Jugurtha kind king labours live look mankind mercy Micipsa mind misery nature nature's never night noble lords Numidia o'er pain Pamphylia passions pause peace perfect person pleasures possession pow'r praise present pride prince proper Pythias racter religion render rest riches rise Roman Roman Senate scene SECTION sense shade shine Sicily smiles solitude sorrow soul sound spect spirit spring sweet tears temper tempest thee things thought tion truth Tuning sweet vanity virtue virtuous voice wisdom wise youth
Popular passages
Page 214 - Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn, , Sure pledge of day, that crown'st the smiling morn With thy bright circlet, praise Him in thy sphere, While day arises, that sweet hour of prime.
Page 183 - 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 219 - THE Lord my pasture shall prepare, •And feed me with a shepherd's care ; His presence shall my wants supply, And guard me with a watchful eye ; My noonday walks he shall attend, And all my midnight hours defend.
Page 173 - The Epitaph Here rests his head upon the lap of Earth A Youth, to Fortune and to Fame unknown; Fair Science frown'd not on his humble birth, And Melancholy mark'd him for her own.
Page 23 - A soft answer turneth away wrath : but grievous words stir up anger.
Page 220 - Soon as the evening shades prevail, The Moon takes up the wondrous tale; And nightly, to the listening Earth, Repeats the story of her birth : Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets, in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Page 207 - And darkness and doubt are now flying away ; No longer I roam in conjecture forlorn. So breaks on the traveller, faint, and astray, The bright and the balmy effulgence of morn. See Truth, Love, and Mercy, in triumph descending, And nature all glowing in Eden's first bloom ! On the cold cheek of Death smiles and roses are blending, And Beauty immortal awakes from the tomb.
Page 232 - If I am right, Thy grace impart, Still in the right to stay ; If I am wrong, oh, teach my heart To find that better way.
Page 225 - Hope humbly then ; with trembling pinions soar ; Wait the great teacher death, and God adore. What future bliss, he gives not thee to know, But gives that hope to be thy blessing now. Hope springs eternal in the human breast : Man never is, but always to be blest.
Page 238 - 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.