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 ReadingR. Patterson & Lambdin, 1822 - 264 Seiten |
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... feeling delicately ourselves , and from judging accurately of what is fittest to strike the feel- ings of others . There is one error , against which it is particularly proper to caution the learner ; namely , that of multi- plying ...
... feeling delicately ourselves , and from judging accurately of what is fittest to strike the feel- ings of others . There is one error , against which it is particularly proper to caution the learner ; namely , that of multi- plying ...
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... feel a sort of strug- gle between the sense and the sound , which renders it difficult to read such lines harmoniously . The rule of proper pronunciation in such cases , is , to regard on- ly the pause which the sense forms ; and to ...
... feel a sort of strug- gle between the sense and the sound , which renders it difficult to read such lines harmoniously . The rule of proper pronunciation in such cases , is , to regard on- ly the pause which the sense forms ; and to ...
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... feel . Our ignorance of what is to come , and of what is really good or evil , should correct anxiety about world- ly success . The veil which covers from our sight the events of succeeding years , is a veil woven by the hand of mer cy ...
... feel . Our ignorance of what is to come , and of what is really good or evil , should correct anxiety about world- ly success . The veil which covers from our sight the events of succeeding years , is a veil woven by the hand of mer cy ...
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... feel that he is subject to various , contradictory , and imperious masters , who often pull him different ways . His soul is rendered the receptacle of many repugnant and jarring dispositions ; and resembles some barbarous country ...
... feel that he is subject to various , contradictory , and imperious masters , who often pull him different ways . His soul is rendered the receptacle of many repugnant and jarring dispositions ; and resembles some barbarous country ...
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... feel . Collected within itself , it stands unmoved by their impotent assaults ; and with generous pity , rather than with anger , looks down on their unworthy conduct . It has been truly said , that the greatest man on earth can no ...
... feel . Collected within itself , it stands unmoved by their impotent assaults ; and with generous pity , rather than with anger , looks down on their unworthy conduct . It has been truly said , that the greatest man on earth can no ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
amidst Antiparos appear Archbishop of Cambray attention beauty behold BLAIR blessings Caius Verres character cheerful comforts dark death Democritus Descartes Dionysius distress divine dread earth emphasis enjoy enjoyment envy eternal ev'ry evil fall father feel folly fortune give Greek language ground happiness hast Hazael heart heav'n Heraclitus honour hope human inflection innocence Jugurtha kind king labours live look Lord mankind ment mercy Micipsa mind misery Mount Etna mountain nature nature's never Numidia o'er ourselves pain Pamphylia passions pause peace perfection person pleasure possession pow'r praise present pride prince proper Pythias reading reason religion render rest rich rise scene SECTION SECTION VI sense sentence sentiments shade shine Sicily smile sorrow soul sound spirit spring stancy sweet temper tempest tence thee things thou thought tion vanity vice virtue virtuous voice wisdom wise words youth
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 181 - Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life; And I shall dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.