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 Reading |
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Page xxxiii
... dark , " Illumine ; what is low , raise and support . " the sense clearly dictates the pause after illumine , at the end of the third syllable , which , in reading , ought to be made accordingly ; though , if the melody only were to be ...
... dark , " Illumine ; what is low , raise and support . " the sense clearly dictates the pause after illumine , at the end of the third syllable , which , in reading , ought to be made accordingly ; though , if the melody only were to be ...
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... dark and sluggish water , which is curled by no breeze , and enlivened by no murmur , till it falls into a dead sea , where startled passengers are awakened by the shock , and the next moment buried in the gulf of Obliviona Of all the ...
... dark and sluggish water , which is curled by no breeze , and enlivened by no murmur , till it falls into a dead sea , where startled passengers are awakened by the shock , and the next moment buried in the gulf of Obliviona Of all the ...
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... motion , and on every hand were heard the mingled howls of rage and fear , and ravage and expiration . All the horrors of darkness and solitude surrounded him : the winds roared in the woods ; and 88 PART I. THE ENGLISH READER .
... motion , and on every hand were heard the mingled howls of rage and fear , and ravage and expiration . All the horrors of darkness and solitude surrounded him : the winds roared in the woods ; and 88 PART I. THE ENGLISH READER .
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... darkness of old age begins to invade us , and disease and anxiety obstruct our way . We then look back upon our lives with horror , with sorrow , with repentance ; and wish , but too often vainly wish , that we had not forsaken the ways ...
... darkness of old age begins to invade us , and disease and anxiety obstruct our way . We then look back upon our lives with horror , with sorrow , with repentance ; and wish , but too often vainly wish , that we had not forsaken the ways ...
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... dark and dreary waste , through which there does not issue a single ray of comfort . Every delusive prospect of ambition is now at an end ; long experience of mankind , an experience very different from what the open and generous soul ...
... dark and dreary waste , through which there does not issue a single ray of comfort . Every delusive prospect of ambition is now at an end ; long experience of mankind , an experience very different from what the open and generous soul ...
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