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 ReadingDarius Clark, 1821 - 263페이지 |
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... renders this always sensible ; and in some measure compels us to observe it in our pronunciation . In respect to blank verse , we ought also to read it so as to make every line sensible to the ear : for , what is the use of melody , or ...
... renders this always sensible ; and in some measure compels us to observe it in our pronunciation . In respect to blank verse , we ought also to read it so as to make every line sensible to the ear : for , what is the use of melody , or ...
xv 페이지
... renders it difficult to read such lines harmoniously . The rule of proper pronunciation in such cases , is to regard only the pause which the sense forms ; and to read the line ac- cordingly . The neglect of the cæsural pause may make ...
... renders it difficult to read such lines harmoniously . The rule of proper pronunciation in such cases , is to regard only the pause which the sense forms ; and to read the line ac- cordingly . The neglect of the cæsural pause may make ...
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... renders it healthful . The happiness of every man depends more upon the stat of his own mind , than upon any one external circumstance . nay , more than upon all external things put together . In no station , in no period , let us think ...
... renders it healthful . The happiness of every man depends more upon the stat of his own mind , than upon any one external circumstance . nay , more than upon all external things put together . In no station , in no period , let us think ...
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... render a good man more illustrious ; but an ill one , more contemptible . Vice is infamous , though in a prince ; and virtue honourable , though in a peasant . An elevated genius employed in little things , appears ( to use the simile ...
... render a good man more illustrious ; but an ill one , more contemptible . Vice is infamous , though in a prince ; and virtue honourable , though in a peasant . An elevated genius employed in little things , appears ( to use the simile ...
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... rendered the receptacle of many repugnant and jarring dispositions ; and resembles some barbarous country , cantoned out into different principalities , which are continually waging war on one another . Diseases , poverty ...
... rendered the receptacle of many repugnant and jarring dispositions ; and resembles some barbarous country , cantoned out into different principalities , which are continually waging war on one another . Diseases , poverty ...
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228 페이지 - On earth, join all ye creatures to extol Him first, him last, him midst, and without end ! Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn, Sure pledge of day, that crown'st the smiling morn With thy bright circlet, praise him in thy sphere, While day arises, that sweet hour of prime.
255 페이지 - THESE, as they change, ALMIGHTY FATHER, these Are but the varied God. The rolling year Is full of THEE. Forth in the pleasing Spring THY beauty walks, THY tenderness and love. Wide flush the fields ; the softening air is balm ; Echo the mountains round ; the forest smiles ; And every sense, and every heart is joy.
240 페이지 - Hope humbly then ; with trembling pinions soar, Wait the great teacher, Death ; and God adore. What future bliss, he gives not thee to know, But gives that hope to be thy blessing now. Hope springs eternal in the human breast : Man never Is, but always to be blest ; The soul, uneasy, and confined from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
186 페이지 - The Epitaph Here rests his head upon the lap of Earth A Youth, to Fortune and to Fame unknown; Fair Science frown'd not on his humble birth, And Melancholy mark'd him for her own.
209 페이지 - I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.
197 페이지 - With thee conversing I forget all time ; All seasons and their change, all please alike. Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds...
228 페이지 - 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...
247 페이지 - If I am right, Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay ; If I am wrong, oh, teach my heart To find that better way!
256 페이지 - Works in the secret deep ; shoots, steaming, thence The fair profusion that o'erspreads the Spring : Flings from the sun direct the flaming day ; Feeds every creature ; hurls the tempest forth ; And, as on earth the grateful change revolves, With transport touches all the springs of life.
209 페이지 - 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.