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 xv
... 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 attentions to the pitch ...
... 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 attentions to the pitch ...
Page xvi
... rest sometimes on the vowel , sometimes on the consonant . The genius of the language requires the voice to mark that syllable by a stronger percussion , and to pass more slightly over the rest . Now , after we have learned the proper ...
... rest sometimes on the vowel , sometimes on the consonant . The genius of the language requires the voice to mark that syllable by a stronger percussion , and to pass more slightly over the rest . Now , after we have learned the proper ...
Page xvii
... rest of the sentence . Sometimes the emphatic words must be distinguished by a par- ticular tone of voice , as well as by a particular stress . On the right management of the emphasis depends the life of pronunciation . If no emphasis ...
... rest of the sentence . Sometimes the emphatic words must be distinguished by a par- ticular tone of voice , as well as by a particular stress . On the right management of the emphasis depends the life of pronunciation . If no emphasis ...
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... rest of the animal world ; all of which express their various feel- ings , by various tones . Ours , indeed , from the supe- rior rank that we hold , are in a high degree more comprehensive ; as there is not an act of the mind , an ...
... rest of the animal world ; all of which express their various feel- ings , by various tones . Ours , indeed , from the supe- rior rank that we hold , are in a high degree more comprehensive ; as there is not an act of the mind , an ...
Page xxv
... the subject , as to be able to proceed through it , with that easy and masterly manner , which has its good effects in this , as well as in every other art . ” b SECTION VII . Pauses . PAUSES or rests , in INTRODUCTION . XXV .
... the subject , as to be able to proceed through it , with that easy and masterly manner , which has its good effects in this , as well as in every other art . ” b SECTION VII . Pauses . PAUSES or rests , in INTRODUCTION . XXV .
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