The Poetic Reader: Containing Selections from the Most Approved Authors, Designed for Exercises in Reading, Singing, Parsing, Hermeneutics, Rhetoric and Punctuaton; to which are Prefixed Directions for Reading1832 - Elocution - 95 pages |
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... voice of melody , should be wafted to heaven ! Are you unwilling to make the attempt , without a bright prospect of excelling ? Are you willing to do nothing , if you cannot do more than others ? How little would be done , if all should ...
... voice of melody , should be wafted to heaven ! Are you unwilling to make the attempt , without a bright prospect of excelling ? Are you willing to do nothing , if you cannot do more than others ? How little would be done , if all should ...
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... voice , the same emphases & c . & c . All these should be adapt- ed to convey the sense , and make the impres- sion in the best manner ; and whatever man- ner would be best in speaking , must be best in reading . If a preacher addresses ...
... voice , the same emphases & c . & c . All these should be adapt- ed to convey the sense , and make the impres- sion in the best manner ; and whatever man- ner would be best in speaking , must be best in reading . If a preacher addresses ...
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... voice , as you would express the same thoughts and feelings of your own , rising at that moment in your minds . A task more difficult was scarcely ever at- tempted by mortal . Surely , it is not strange , that many should read so very ...
... voice , as you would express the same thoughts and feelings of your own , rising at that moment in your minds . A task more difficult was scarcely ever at- tempted by mortal . Surely , it is not strange , that many should read so very ...
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... voice , may be greatly inferior ; and on the whole , they may not convey the sense so clearly nor so forcibly , as you . If what you speak is considered by the hearer half as important , as what they read , and your language tolerable ...
... voice , may be greatly inferior ; and on the whole , they may not convey the sense so clearly nor so forcibly , as you . If what you speak is considered by the hearer half as important , as what they read , and your language tolerable ...
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... voice and to dis- cover , whether there are not some sounds , that he finds it peculiarly difficult , or even impossible , to utter correctly . Upon these , if such are found , he may be drilled most thor- oughly . If more than one ...
... voice and to dis- cover , whether there are not some sounds , that he finds it peculiarly difficult , or even impossible , to utter correctly . Upon these , if such are found , he may be drilled most thor- oughly . If more than one ...
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Page 19 - COME, let us join our cheerful songs With angels round the throne; Ten thousand thousand are their tongues, But all their joys are one. 2 ' ' Worthy the Lamb that died," they cry, "To be exalted thus!
Page 67 - Rise, crown'd with light, imperial Salem, rise ! Exalt thy towery head, and lift thy eyes ! See a long race thy spacious courts adorn ; See future sons, and daughters yet unborn, In crowding ranks on every side arise, Demanding life, impatient for the skies...
Page 11 - THE Lord my pasture shall prepare, •And feed me with a shepherd's care ; His presence shall my wants supply, And guard me with a watchful eye ; My noonday walks he shall attend, And all my midnight hours defend.
Page 2 - Congress of the United States, entitled, "An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned." And also to the Act, entitled, " An Act supplementary to an Act, entitled, ' An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the Authors and Proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned,' and extending the benefits thereof...
Page 63 - Ye forests, bend ; ye harvests, wave to Him • Breathe your still song into the reaper's heart, As home he goes beneath the joyous moon. Ye that keep watch in heaven, as earth asleep Unconscious lies, effuse your mildest beams, Ye constellations, while your angels strike, 476 THOMSON.
Page 11 - Thou, O Christ, art all I want, More than all in thee I find ! Raise the fallen, cheer the faint, Heal the sick, and lead the blind...
Page 64 - And the widows of Ashur are loud in their wail, And the idols are broke in the temple of Baal ; And the might of the Gentile, unsmote by the sword, Hath melted like snow in the glance of the Lord...
Page 10 - So shall my walk be close with God, Calm and serene my frame ; So purer light shall mark the road, That leads me to the Lamb.
Page 71 - For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care: No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share.
Page 12 - See, the streams of living waters, Springing from eternal love, Well supply thy sons and daughters, And all fear of want remove ; Who can faint while such a river Ever flows their thirst to assuage — Grace, which, like the Lord, the giver, Never fails from age to age?