McGuffey's New Sixth Eclectic Reader: Exercises in Rhetorical Reading, with Introductory Rules and ExamplesW.B. Smith, 1857 - 448 páginas |
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... present variety of style and subject , to attract by interest of matter , to elevate by purity and delicacy of sentiment , and especially to furnish the mind with valuable information , and to influence the heart by sound moral and ...
... present variety of style and subject , to attract by interest of matter , to elevate by purity and delicacy of sentiment , and especially to furnish the mind with valuable information , and to influence the heart by sound moral and ...
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... present , conductor of the periodical " Household Words . " 1. SHE was dead . No sleep so beautiful and calm , so free from trace of pain , so fair to look upon . She seemed a creature fresh from the hand of God , and waiting for the ...
... present , conductor of the periodical " Household Words . " 1. SHE was dead . No sleep so beautiful and calm , so free from trace of pain , so fair to look upon . She seemed a creature fresh from the hand of God , and waiting for the ...
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... present now at the field of slaughter , and were to inquire for what they were fighting ́ , -— “ Fight- ing ! " would be the answer " ; " they are not fighting ' ; they are pausing . " " Why is that man expiring ? Why is that other ...
... present now at the field of slaughter , and were to inquire for what they were fighting ́ , -— “ Fight- ing ! " would be the answer " ; " they are not fighting ' ; they are pausing . " " Why is that man expiring ? Why is that other ...
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... present life shall disappear , and the conqueror and his captive ; the momarch and his subject ; the lord and his vassal` ; the statesman and the peasant` ; the philosopher and the unlettered hind ' ; shall find their distinctions to ...
... present life shall disappear , and the conqueror and his captive ; the momarch and his subject ; the lord and his vassal` ; the statesman and the peasant` ; the philosopher and the unlettered hind ' ; shall find their distinctions to ...
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... present age only , but Europe and posterity . Wonderful were the means by which those schemes were accomplished ; always seasonable , always ade- quate , the suggestion of an understanding animated by ardor , and enlightened by prophecy ...
... present age only , but Europe and posterity . Wonderful were the means by which those schemes were accomplished ; always seasonable , always ade- quate , the suggestion of an understanding animated by ardor , and enlightened by prophecy ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
1st Capt 1st Sold accent Antiparos arms beautiful bosom breath bright called CATARACT OF LODORE cavern cesura circumflex clouds dark dead death deep Demosthenes dream Dryden Duhobret earth emphasis emphatic exercise eyes falling inflection father fear Fiji friends grave hand happy happy elf hath head hear heard heart heaven Henry Kirke White honor hope hour Iago Ivanhoe lesson live look Lord loud loving band Macpherson mighty mind morning mountain murmur NAPOLEON BONAPARTE nature never night o'er pass pause peace poor Pope rising inflection roar Robert Raikes rock rule scene sentences silence sleep smile sorrow soul sound speak speaker spirit stood storm syllable tears tempest thalers thee thine thing THOMAS HOOD thou thought thunder tone Tonga trembling unto uttered voice vowel waves wind wings words
Passagens conhecidas
Página 254 - Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And, sure, he is an honorable man. I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke, But here I am to speak what I do know.
Página 424 - The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord, And he delighteth in his way ; Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down; For the Lord upholdeth him with his hand.
Página 198 - The hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun, - the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between; The venerable woods - rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste, Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man.
Página 198 - His favorite phantom; yet all these shall leave Their mirth and their employments, and shall come, And make their bed with thee. As the long train Of ages glide away, the sons of men, The youth in life's green spring, and he who goes In the full strength of years, matron, and maid...
Página 415 - One touch to her hand, and one word in her ear, When they reached the hall door, and the charger stood near; So light to the croupe the fair lady he swung, So light to the saddle before her he sprung! "She is won! we are gone, over bank, bush, and scaur; They'll have fleet steeds that follow,
Página 354 - Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and. curious volume of forgotten lore — While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. " "Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door — Only this and nothing more.
Página 309 - Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee : for whither thou goest, I will go ; and where thou lodgest I will lodge : thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God: " Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried; the Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.
Página 136 - Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage; Then lend the eye a terrible aspect; Let it pry through the portage of the head Like the brass cannon; let the brow o'erwhelm it As fearfully as doth a galled rock O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean.
Página 253 - Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil, that men do, lives after them ; The good is oft interred with their bones ; So let it be with Caesar.
Página 365 - By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring From the hard hands of peasants their' vile trash By any indirection.