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 Reading |
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... obferve , that there may be also an extreme on the oppofite fide . It is obvious that a lifeless drawling manner of reading , which allows the minds of the hearers to be always outrunning the speaker , must render every fuch performance ...
... obferve , that there may be also an extreme on the oppofite fide . It is obvious that a lifeless drawling manner of reading , which allows the minds of the hearers to be always outrunning the speaker , must render every fuch performance ...
Page xviii
... obferve , that the mind , in communicating its ideas , is in a constant state of activity , emotion , or agitation , from the different effects which thofe ideas produce in the fpeaker . Now the end of fuch communication being , not ...
... obferve , that the mind , in communicating its ideas , is in a constant state of activity , emotion , or agitation , from the different effects which thofe ideas produce in the fpeaker . Now the end of fuch communication being , not ...
Page xxvi
... obferve it in our pronunciation . In refpect to blank verse , we ought alfo to read it so as to make every line fensible of melody , or for what to the ear for , what is the use end has the poet compofed in verse , if , in reading his ...
... obferve it in our pronunciation . In refpect to blank verse , we ought alfo to read it so as to make every line fensible of melody , or for what to the ear for , what is the use end has the poet compofed in verse , if , in reading his ...
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... obferve any tendency to treat religion or morals with difrespect and levity , let us hold it to be a fure indication of a perverted understand- ing , or a depraved heart . Every degree of guilt incurred by yielding to temptation , tends ...
... obferve any tendency to treat religion or morals with difrespect and levity , let us hold it to be a fure indication of a perverted understand- ing , or a depraved heart . Every degree of guilt incurred by yielding to temptation , tends ...
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... Obferve the progrefs of her votaries ; be filent and attentive . " * After I had noticed a variety of objects , I turn- ed my eye towards the multitudes who were climb- ing the steep afcent ; and observed amongst them a youth of a ...
... Obferve the progrefs of her votaries ; be filent and attentive . " * After I had noticed a variety of objects , I turn- ed my eye towards the multitudes who were climb- ing the steep afcent ; and observed amongst them a youth of a ...
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