The Reader: Containing I. The Art of Delivery ... a Selection of Lessons in the Various Kinds of Prose. II. Poetick Numbers ... a Selection of Lessons in the Various Kinds of Verse. Being the Third Part of a Columbian Exercise ... an Easy and Systematical Method of Teaching of Learning the English Language |
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... breath mixed in forming them to make their sounds agreeable , when con- tinued . The only sounds , therefore , which can be prolong . ed with pleasure to the ear , are el , en , ev , ez , and eng . Nor but all the others will admit of ...
... breath mixed in forming them to make their sounds agreeable , when con- tinued . The only sounds , therefore , which can be prolong . ed with pleasure to the ear , are el , en , ev , ez , and eng . Nor but all the others will admit of ...
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... breath , and a forcible action of the - organs in forming them ; and let all the vowel sounds have a full and bold utterance . Continue these exercises with perseverance , till you have acquired strength and energy end of speech . But ...
... breath , and a forcible action of the - organs in forming them ; and let all the vowel sounds have a full and bold utterance . Continue these exercises with perseverance , till you have acquired strength and energy end of speech . But ...
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... breath , always to get a fresh supply before he feels any want ; for while he has some to spare , he recruits it with such ease , that his hearers are not at all sensible of his doing it . The second rule for giving a proper degree of ...
... breath , always to get a fresh supply before he feels any want ; for while he has some to spare , he recruits it with such ease , that his hearers are not at all sensible of his doing it . The second rule for giving a proper degree of ...
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... breath , which nobody can bear , and the last is de- clarative of dirty work ; one may always know a gentle- man by the state of his hands and nails . The flesh at the roots should be kept back , so as to show the semicircle at the ...
... breath , which nobody can bear , and the last is de- clarative of dirty work ; one may always know a gentle- man by the state of his hands and nails . The flesh at the roots should be kept back , so as to show the semicircle at the ...
Page 174
... breath , Shoots pois'nous arrows , fire and death ; While some low minds their pride express In the vain fopperies of their dress . II . Pride , like a ruthless tyrant , reigns , And binds its slaves in fatal chains ; Makes them to ...
... breath , Shoots pois'nous arrows , fire and death ; While some low minds their pride express In the vain fopperies of their dress . II . Pride , like a ruthless tyrant , reigns , And binds its slaves in fatal chains ; Makes them to ...
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Page 184 - I'm weary of conjectures — this must end them. [Laying his Hand on his Sword. Thus am I doubly arm'd : my death and life, My bane and antidote are both before me. This in a moment brings me to an end ; But this informs me I shall never die. The soul, secur'd in her existence, smiles At the drawn dagger, and defies its point. The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shall flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck...
Page 192 - The spacious firmament on high, With all the blue ethereal sky, And spangled Heavens, a shining frame, Their great Original proclaim. Th' unwearied sun from day to day Does his Creator's power display, And publishes to every land The work of an almighty hand. Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale ; And nightly, to the...
Page 96 - If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility ? revenge ; If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example? why, revenge. The villainy, you teach me, I will execute ; and it shall go hard, but I will better the instruction.
Page 174 - THE EPITAPH Here rests his head upon the lap of earth A youth to fortune and to fame unknown: Fair science frowned not on his humble birth, And melancholy marked him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere, . Heaven did a recompense as largely send: He gave to misery all he had, a tear: He gained from heaven ('twas all he wished) a friend.
Page 61 - As I darkened the little light he had, he lifted up a hopeless eye towards the door, then cast it down — shook his head, and went on with his work of affliction. I heard his chains upon his legs, as he turned his body to lay his little stick upon the bundle. — He gave a deep sigh — I saw the iron enter into his soul — I burst into tears — I could not sustain the picture of confinement which my fancy had drawn...
Page 180 - To tempt its new-fledged offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reproved each dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way.
Page 173 - As one who, long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn, to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight ; The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound...
Page 51 - At the same time that I think discretion the most useful talent a man can be master of, I look upon cunning to be the accomplishment of little, mean, ungenerous minds. Discretion points out the noblest ends to us, and pursues the most proper and laudable methods of attaining them. Cunning has only private selfish aims, and sticks at nothing which may make them succeed.
Page 170 - Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe the' enlivening spirit, and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast.
Page 61 - I beheld his body half wasted away with long expectation and confinement, and felt what kind of sickness of the heart it was which arises from hope deferred. Upon looking nearer, I saw him pale and feverish ; in thirty years the western breeze had not once fanned his blood ; — he had seen no sun, no moon, in all that time ; — nor had the voice of friend or kinsman breathed through his lattice ! — His children ! — But here my heart began to bleed ; and I was forced to go on with another part...