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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... nature ; and for this , they have been used from the beginning of time . Of the life - giving oracles , much was written in poetry , and much designed to be sung . By these sacred songs , the inhabitants of Zion , in every age , have ...
... nature ; and for this , they have been used from the beginning of time . Of the life - giving oracles , much was written in poetry , and much designed to be sung . By these sacred songs , the inhabitants of Zion , in every age , have ...
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... nature . It was a strik- ing remark of the most distinguished elocu- tionist in our country , " Here , art is an over- match for nature . " But " the perfection of art is to conceal the art . " Those , therefore , who have made the ...
... nature . It was a strik- ing remark of the most distinguished elocu- tionist in our country , " Here , art is an over- match for nature . " But " the perfection of art is to conceal the art . " Those , therefore , who have made the ...
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... natural manner of read- ing . Any alterations in the manner of read- ing may be freely suggested and discussed . But at the time , the imitation should resem- ble the model , as nearly , as possible . It may be scarcely less useful to ...
... natural manner of read- ing . Any alterations in the manner of read- ing may be freely suggested and discussed . But at the time , the imitation should resem- ble the model , as nearly , as possible . It may be scarcely less useful to ...
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... natural . And yet let us not be discouraged . Something may be done , though much may remain undone . Scarcely any thing is easier , than to rise above that grossly unnatural and almost unintelligible manner , that is so common and so ...
... natural . And yet let us not be discouraged . Something may be done , though much may remain undone . Scarcely any thing is easier , than to rise above that grossly unnatural and almost unintelligible manner , that is so common and so ...
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... nature can boast . The little child , with all his dis- advantages of ignorance , imbecilty and inex- perience , in the short period of 20 or 30 months , acquires the art of forming 38 differ- ent sounds , by varying the position of his ...
... nature can boast . The little child , with all his dis- advantages of ignorance , imbecilty and inex- perience , in the short period of 20 or 30 months , acquires the art of forming 38 differ- ent sounds , by varying the position of his ...
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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?