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 ReadingPublished and sold by C. Morse, 1840 - 263 頁 |
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... observe , that the Reader and the Sequel , besides teaching to read accurately , and inculcating many important sentiments , may be considered as auxiliaries to the Author's English Grammar ; as practical illustrations of the princi ...
... observe , that the Reader and the Sequel , besides teaching to read accurately , and inculcating many important sentiments , may be considered as auxiliaries to the Author's English Grammar ; as practical illustrations of the princi ...
第 8 頁
... observe that , in the existing publications designed for the perusal of young persons , the preponderance is greatly on the side of gay and amusing productions . Too much attention may be paid to this medi um of improvement . When the ...
... observe that , in the existing publications designed for the perusal of young persons , the preponderance is greatly on the side of gay and amusing productions . Too much attention may be paid to this medi um of improvement . When the ...
第 11 頁
... 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 ontrunning the speaker , must render every such ...
... 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 ontrunning the speaker , must render every such ...
第 12 頁
... observation , which it may not be improper here to make . In the English language , every word which consists of more sy . ables than one , has one accented syllable . The accents resi sometimes on the vowel , sometimes on the consonant ...
... observation , which it may not be improper here to make . In the English language , every word which consists of more sy . ables than one , has one accented syllable . The accents resi sometimes on the vowel , sometimes on the consonant ...
第 13 頁
... observe , that the mind , in communicating its ideas , is in a constant state of activity , emo- tion , or agitation , from the different effects which those ideas produce in the speaker . Now the end of such communication being , not ...
... observe , that the mind , in communicating its ideas , is in a constant state of activity , emo- tion , or agitation , from the different effects which those ideas produce in the speaker . Now the end of such communication being , not ...
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第 126 頁 - Whereupon, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision ; but shewed first unto them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the coasts of Judea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works meet for repentance.
第 207 頁 - 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.
第 255 頁 - When even at last the solemn hour shall come, And wing my mystic flight to future worlds, I cheerful will obey; there, with new powers, Will rising wonders sing. I cannot go Where universal love not smiles around, Sustaining all yon orbs, and all their suns; From seeming evil still educing good, And better thence again, and better still, In infinite progression.
第 204 頁 - Ye noble few ! who here unbending stand Beneath life's pressure, yet bear up awhile, And what your bounded view, which only saw A little part, deem'd Evil, is no more ; The storms of Wintry Time will quickly pass, And one unbounded Spring encircle all.
第 255 頁 - tis nought to me : Since GOD is ever present, ever felt, In the void waste as in the city full ; And where HE vital breathes there must be joy.
第 232 頁 - Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening 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. What though, in solemn silence, all Move round the dark terrestrial ball?
第 254 頁 - But wandering oft, with brute unconscious gaze, Man marks not Thee, marks not the mighty Hand That, ever busy, wheels the silent spheres ; Works in the secret deep ; shoots, steaming, thence The fair profusion that o'erspreads the Spring...
第 195 頁 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep : All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night.
第 196 頁 - Which they beheld, the moon's resplendent globe, And starry pole : « Thou also mad'st the night, Maker Omnipotent! and thou the day...
第 217 頁 - Ah little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain.