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 ReadingJohn Montgomery, 1827 - 264 sidor |
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... voice , but contain sentences and members of sentences , which are di- versified , proportioned , and pointed with accuracy . Exercises of this nature are , it is presumed , well calculated to teach youth to read with propriety and ...
... voice , but contain sentences and members of sentences , which are di- versified , proportioned , and pointed with accuracy . Exercises of this nature are , it is presumed , well calculated to teach youth to read with propriety and ...
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... VOICE ; DISTINCTNESS ; SLOWNESS ; PROPRIETY OF pro- NUNCIATION ; EMPHASIS ; TONES ; PAUSES ; and MODE OF READING VERSE . SECTION I. Proper Loudness of Voice . THE first attention of every person who reads to others , doubtless , must be ...
... VOICE ; DISTINCTNESS ; SLOWNESS ; PROPRIETY OF pro- NUNCIATION ; EMPHASIS ; TONES ; PAUSES ; and MODE OF READING VERSE . SECTION I. Proper Loudness of Voice . THE first attention of every person who reads to others , doubtless , must be ...
Sida vi
... voice before we have done . We shall fatigue ourselves , and read with pain ; and whenever a person speaks with pain to himself , he is always heard with pain by his audience . Let us therefore give the voice full strength and swell of ...
... voice before we have done . We shall fatigue ourselves , and read with pain ; and whenever a person speaks with pain to himself , he is always heard with pain by his audience . Let us therefore give the voice full strength and swell of ...
Sida vii
... voice , by the pauses and rests which it allows the reader more easily to make ; and it enables the reader to swell all his sounds , both with more force and more harmony . SECTION IV . Propriety of Pronunciation . AFTER the fundamental ...
... voice , by the pauses and rests which it allows the reader more easily to make ; and it enables the reader to swell all his sounds , both with more force and more harmony . SECTION IV . Propriety of Pronunciation . AFTER the fundamental ...
Sida viii
... voice , which is perceived in utter- ing a sentence , and which , in its nature , is perfectly distinct from emphasis . and the tones of emotion and passion . The young reader should be careful to render his modulation correct and easy ...
... voice , which is perceived in utter- ing a sentence , and which , in its nature , is perfectly distinct from emphasis . and the tones of emotion and passion . The young reader should be careful to render his modulation correct and easy ...
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Sida 163 - OH for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more...
Sida 189 - Lives on the labours of this lord of all. Know Nature's children all divide her care ; The fur that warms a monarch warm'da bear. While man exclaims,
Sida 82 - And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you. And they came near. And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt. Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life.
Sida 183 - THE Lord my pasture shall prepare, •And feed me with a shepherd's care ; His presence shall my wants supply, And guard me with a watchful eye ; My noonday walks he shall attend, And all my midnight hours defend.
Sida 183 - Earth, Repeats the story of her birth : Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets, in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Sida 179 - Of Nature's womb, that in quaternion run Perpetual circle, multiform ; and mix And nourish all things ; let your ceaseless change Vary to our Great Maker still new praise. Ye Mists and Exhalations that now rise From hill or steaming lake, dusky or gray, Till the sun paint your fleecy skirts with gold, In honour to the world's Great Author rise...
Sida 179 - Whether to deck with clouds the uncoloured sky, Or wet the thirsty earth with falling showers, Rising or falling still advance his praise. His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud; and wave your tops, ye Pines, With every plant in sign of worship wave. Fountains, and ye that warble as ye flow, Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise.
Sida 179 - Air, and ye elements, the eldest birth Of Nature's womb, that in quaternion run Perpetual circle, multiform ; and mix And nourish all things ; let your ceaseless change Vary to our great Maker still new praise.
Sida 157 - While from the bounded level of our mind Short views we take, nor see the lengths behind : But more...
Sida 175 - How fleet is a glance of the mind ! Compared with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-winged arrows of light When I think of my own native land In a moment I seem to be there; But alas! recollection at hand Soon hurries me back to despair.