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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... wish to become good readers ; and it cannot be too much recommended to them . Such a pronunciation gives weight and dignity to the subject . It is a great assistance to the voice , by the pauses and rests which it allows the reader more ...
... wish to become good readers ; and it cannot be too much recommended to them . Such a pronunciation gives weight and dignity to the subject . It is a great assistance to the voice , by the pauses and rests which it allows the reader more ...
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... wish to see a minute and ingenious investiga tion of the nature of these inflections , and the rules by which they ar governed , may consult Walker's Elements of Elocution . SECTION VIII . Manner of reading Verse . WHEN We are reading ...
... wish to see a minute and ingenious investiga tion of the nature of these inflections , and the rules by which they ar governed , may consult Walker's Elements of Elocution . SECTION VIII . Manner of reading Verse . WHEN We are reading ...
第 19 頁
... wishes recommended , 15. Omniscience and omnipresence of the Deity , the source of consolation to good men . CHAPTER IV . Argumentative Pieces .. ECT . 1. Happiness is founded in rectitude of conduct , 2. Virtue man's highest interest ...
... wishes recommended , 15. Omniscience and omnipresence of the Deity , the source of consolation to good men . CHAPTER IV . Argumentative Pieces .. ECT . 1. Happiness is founded in rectitude of conduct , 2. Virtue man's highest interest ...
第 27 頁
... wishes ; and regret , in the last hour , his useless intentions and barren zeal . The spirit of true religion breathes mildness and affability . . It gives a native , unaffected ease to the behaviour . It is so cial , kind , and ...
... wishes ; and regret , in the last hour , his useless intentions and barren zeal . The spirit of true religion breathes mildness and affability . . It gives a native , unaffected ease to the behaviour . It is so cial , kind , and ...
第 29 頁
... wish to pass the last hours with comfort , to lay up such a treasure of pleasing ideas , as shall support the expenses of that time , which is to depend wholly upon the fund already acquired . SECTION V. WHAT avails the show of external ...
... wish to pass the last hours with comfort , to lay up such a treasure of pleasing ideas , as shall support the expenses of that time , which is to depend wholly upon the fund already acquired . SECTION V. WHAT avails the show of external ...
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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.