The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Verse from the Best Writers; Designed to Assist Young Persons to Read with Propriety and Effect; Improve Their Language and Sentiments and to Inculate the Most Important Principles of Piety and Virtue, with a Few Preliminary Observations on the Principles of Good Reading |
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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 iudebted 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 iudebted 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 . It the emphasis be placed wrong , we pervert , and confound the meaning wholly , Emphasis may be divided into the sterior and the inferior emphasis . The superior ...
... rendered heavy and lifeless , but the meaning left often ambiguous . It the emphasis be placed wrong , we pervert , and confound the meaning wholly , Emphasis may be divided into the sterior and the inferior emphasis . The superior ...
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... render every thing he expresses , of high im portance , by a multitude of strong emphasis , we soon learn to pay little re- gard to them . To crowd every sentence with emphatical words , is like crowd- ing all the pages of a book with ...
... render every thing he expresses , of high im portance , by a multitude of strong emphasis , we soon learn to pay little re- gard to them . To crowd every sentence with emphatical words , is like crowd- ing all the pages of a book with ...
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... render pauses pleasing and expressive , they must not only be made in the right place , but also accompanied with a proper tone of voice , by which the nature of these pauses is intimated , much more than by the length of them , which ...
... render pauses pleasing and expressive , they must not only be made in the right place , but also accompanied with a proper tone of voice , by which the nature of these pauses is intimated , much more than by the length of them , which ...
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The English Reader, Or Pieces in Prose and Poetry: Selected From the Best ... Lindley Murray No preview available - 2016 |
The English Reader, Or Pieces in Prose and Poetry: Selected From the Best ... Lindley Murray No preview available - 2017 |
The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Verse, From the Best Writers ... Lindley 1745-1826 1n Murray No preview available - 2021 |
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