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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Page v
... thofe which fend to infpire a due reverence for virtue , and an abhorrence of vice , as well as to animate them with fentiments of piety and goodnefs . Such impreffions deeply engraven on their minds , and connected with all their ...
... thofe which fend to infpire a due reverence for virtue , and an abhorrence of vice , as well as to animate them with fentiments of piety and goodnefs . Such impreffions deeply engraven on their minds , and connected with all their ...
Page viii
... thofe to whom he reads . He muft endeavour to fill with his voice the space occupied by the company . This power of voice , it may be thought , is wholly a natural talent , It is , in a good meafure , the gift of nature ; but it may ...
... thofe to whom he reads . He muft endeavour to fill with his voice the space occupied by the company . This power of voice , it may be thought , is wholly a natural talent , It is , in a good meafure , the gift of nature ; but it may ...
Page xviii
... thofe ideas produce in the fpeaker . Now the end of fuch communication being , not merely to lay open the ideas , but alfo the different feelings which they excite in him who utters them , there must be other figns than words , to ...
... thofe ideas produce in the fpeaker . Now the end of fuch communication being , not merely to lay open the ideas , but alfo the different feelings which they excite in him who utters them , there must be other figns than words , to ...
Page xx
... thofe of common fpeech , but , in fome degree , more " faintly characterised . Let thofe tones which fignify any " difagreeable paffion of the mind , be still more faint than " those which indicate agreeable emotions : and , on all ...
... thofe of common fpeech , but , in fome degree , more " faintly characterised . Let thofe tones which fignify any " difagreeable paffion of the mind , be still more faint than " those which indicate agreeable emotions : and , on all ...
Page xxiv
... thofe inflections . The regular application of the rifing and falling inflec- tions , confers fo much beauty on expreffion , and is fo neceffary to be ftudied by the young reader , that we shall infert a few more examples , to induce ...
... thofe inflections . The regular application of the rifing and falling inflec- tions , confers fo much beauty on expreffion , and is fo neceffary to be ftudied by the young reader , that we shall infert a few more examples , to induce ...
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