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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... tion , and all meaning . It is scarcely necessary to observe , that there may be also an extreme on the opposite side . It is obvious that a lifeless , drawling manner of reading , which allows the minds of the hearers to be always out ...
... tion , and all meaning . It is scarcely necessary to observe , that there may be also an extreme on the opposite side . It is obvious that a lifeless , drawling manner of reading , which allows the minds of the hearers to be always out ...
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... tion of the words belonging to the English language . SECTION V. Emphasis . BY emphasis is meant a stronger and fuller sound of voice , by which we distinguish some ward or words , on which we design to lay particular stress , and to ...
... tion of the words belonging to the English language . SECTION V. Emphasis . BY emphasis is meant a stronger and fuller sound of voice , by which we distinguish some ward or words , on which we design to lay particular stress , and to ...
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... tion is not arbitrary , depending on the caprice of readers . As emphasis often falls on words in different parts of the same sentence , so it is frequently required to be continued , with a little variation , on two , and sometimes ...
... tion is not arbitrary , depending on the caprice of readers . As emphasis often falls on words in different parts of the same sentence , so it is frequently required to be continued , with a little variation , on two , and sometimes ...
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... tion . It is far from being an inconsiderable attainment . It is one of the most decisive trials of a true and just taste ; and must arise from feeling de- licately ourselves , and from judging accurately of what is fittest to strike ...
... tion . It is far from being an inconsiderable attainment . It is one of the most decisive trials of a true and just taste ; and must arise from feeling de- licately ourselves , and from judging accurately of what is fittest to strike ...
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... tion is necessary in this point , as it is in other things . For when the reading becomes strictly imitative , it asumes a theatrical manner , and must be high- ly improper , as well as give offence to the hearers ; because it is ...
... tion is necessary in this point , as it is in other things . For when the reading becomes strictly imitative , it asumes a theatrical manner , and must be high- ly improper , as well as give offence to the hearers ; because it is ...
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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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