The Art of Reading: Containing a Number of Useful Rules Exemplified by a Variety of Selected and Original Pieces, Narrative, Didactic, Argumentative, Poetical, Descriptive, Pathetic, Humourous, and Entertaining, Together with Dialogues, Speeches, Orations, Addresses, and Harangues : Calculated to Improve the Scholar in Reading and Speaking with Propriety and Elegance, and to Impress the Minds of Youth with Sentiments of Virtue and Religion : Designed for the Use of Schools and Families |
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... fhould be almoft totally neglected . That a general ina- bility to read and fpeak with elegance prevails , is fully evinced both from private and public performances . The fource , from which this incapacity arifes , is either natural ...
... fhould be almoft totally neglected . That a general ina- bility to read and fpeak with elegance prevails , is fully evinced both from private and public performances . The fource , from which this incapacity arifes , is either natural ...
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... fhould be pronounced with a quick and forcible percuf- fion ; as , battle , hab'it , pulpit . When the accent is on the vowel , the percuffion fhould be less forcible , and the syll- able fhould be lengthened ; as , father , boly ...
... fhould be pronounced with a quick and forcible percuf- fion ; as , battle , hab'it , pulpit . When the accent is on the vowel , the percuffion fhould be less forcible , and the syll- able fhould be lengthened ; as , father , boly ...
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... fhould be taken not to ufe emphatical words too often . It is only a prudent ufe of them , that will produce their proper effect . Let the reader or fpeaker obferve ftrictly the manner which he uses to diftinguish one word from another ...
... fhould be taken not to ufe emphatical words too often . It is only a prudent ufe of them , that will produce their proper effect . Let the reader or fpeaker obferve ftrictly the manner which he uses to diftinguish one word from another ...
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... fhould be ufed when the fenfe is incomplete ; and the clofing one , when it is finished . But there are phrases , in which , al- though the fenfe is not completed , the voice takes the clofing , rather than the fufpending paufe ; and ...
... fhould be ufed when the fenfe is incomplete ; and the clofing one , when it is finished . But there are phrases , in which , al- though the fenfe is not completed , the voice takes the clofing , rather than the fufpending paufe ; and ...
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... fhould pour it into the lap of dif trefs , or generofity place it in the hands of merit . That friendship , which makes the leaft noife , is often the most useful ; and a prudent friend is generally of more fer- vice than a zealous one ...
... fhould pour it into the lap of dif trefs , or generofity place it in the hands of merit . That friendship , which makes the leaft noife , is often the most useful ; and a prudent friend is generally of more fer- vice than a zealous one ...
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Common terms and phrases
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Popular passages
Page 41 - Ye mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew, neither let there be rain, upon you, nor fields of offerings : for there the shield of the mighty is vilely cast away, the shield of Saul, as though he had not been anointed with oil.
Page 222 - What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme, The mole's dim curtain, and the lynx's beam : Of smell, the headlong lioness between, And hound sagacious on the tainted green ; Of hearing, from the life that fills the flood, To that which warbles through the vernal wood. The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine ! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line...
Page 234 - Short intermission bought with double smart. This knows my Punisher ; therefore as far From granting he, as I from begging, peace. All hope excluded thus, behold...
Page 224 - Great in the earth as in th" ethereal frame; Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze. Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees, Lives through all life, extends through all extent. Spreads undivided, operates unspent : Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part. As full, as perfect, in a hair as heart; As full, as perfect, in vile man that mourns. As the rapt seraph that adores and burns: To him no high, no low, no great, no small ; He fills. he bounds, connects, and equals all.
Page 233 - O thou, that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion, like the god Of this new world; at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads ; to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 sun ! to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere...
Page 40 - So I stood upon him, and slew him, because I was sure that he could not live after that he was fallen : and I took the crown that was upon his head, and the bracelet that was on his arm, and have brought them hither unto my lord.
Page 237 - Thou sun, said I, fair light, And thou enlighten'd earth, so fresh and gay, Ye hills and dales, ye rivers, woods, and plains, And ye that live and move, fair creatures, tell, Tell, if ye saw, how came I thus, how here?
Page 227 - As yon summits soft and fair, Clad in colours of the air Which to those who journey near Barren, brown and rough appear: Still we tread the same coarse way; The present's still a cloudy day.
Page 237 - Thy suppliant, I beg, and clasp thy knees; bereave me not, Whereon I live, thy gentle looks, thy aid, Thy counsel, in this uttermost distress My only strength and stay; forlorn of thee, Whither shall I betake me, where subsist ? While yet we live, scarce one short hour perhaps, Between us two let there be peace...
Page 227 - Be full, ye courts; be great, who will; Search for Peace with all your skill. Open wide the lofty door ; Seek her on the marble floor; In vain you search : she is not there ; In vain ye search the domes of Care.