The School Reader. Fifth Book: Designed as a Sequel to Sanders' Fouth Reader. Part First, Containing Full Instructions in the Rhetorical Principles of Reading Or Speaking, Illustrated by Numerous Examples. Part Second, Consisting of Elegant Extracts in Prose and Poetry from Various Eloquent Writers, Accompanied with Notes, Explanatory of Such Historical Or Classical Allusions, as the Several Lessons Contain: for the Use of Academies and the Highest Classes in Common and Select SchoolsM.N. Newman & Company, 1848 - 456 páginas |
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... hand the good man fastens on the skies , And BIDS EARTH ROLL , nor FEELS HER IDLE WHIRL . 3. The war is inevitable - and LET IT COME ! I repeat it , Sir , -LET IT COME ! 4. I have thus shown , from the gentleman's own arguments , that ...
... hand the good man fastens on the skies , And BIDS EARTH ROLL , nor FEELS HER IDLE WHIRL . 3. The war is inevitable - and LET IT COME ! I repeat it , Sir , -LET IT COME ! 4. I have thus shown , from the gentleman's own arguments , that ...
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... hand and heart to this vote . 2. There are also celestial bodies , and bodies terrestrial ; but the glory of the celes'tial is one ' , and the glory of the terres trial is anoth`er . 3. If you seek to make one rich , study not to ...
... hand and heart to this vote . 2. There are also celestial bodies , and bodies terrestrial ; but the glory of the celes'tial is one ' , and the glory of the terres trial is anoth`er . 3. If you seek to make one rich , study not to ...
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... hand , Of life , of crown ' , of queen ' , at once dispatch'ed ; - Cut off even in the blossoms of my sin ' , Unhousel'd disappointed , unanel'd ; No reckoning made , but sent to my account With all my imperfections on my head . Hamlet ...
... hand , Of life , of crown ' , of queen ' , at once dispatch'ed ; - Cut off even in the blossoms of my sin ' , Unhousel'd disappointed , unanel'd ; No reckoning made , but sent to my account With all my imperfections on my head . Hamlet ...
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... hand ' The lightnings vi'brate , holds them back , until The tram'pler of this goodly earth , hath reached His pyramid - hight of power ; that so his fall May , with more fear'ful oracles , make pale ' Man's crowned oppress`ors ! RULE ...
... hand ' The lightnings vi'brate , holds them back , until The tram'pler of this goodly earth , hath reached His pyramid - hight of power ; that so his fall May , with more fear'ful oracles , make pale ' Man's crowned oppress`ors ! RULE ...
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... hands were pure as his , From the deep stain of blood . Didst hear the sounds In the air last night ? 21 Cit.- Since the great work of slaughter , Who hath not heard them duly at those hours Which should be silent ? 3d Cit.- O , the ...
... hands were pure as his , From the deep stain of blood . Didst hear the sounds In the air last night ? 21 Cit.- Since the great work of slaughter , Who hath not heard them duly at those hours Which should be silent ? 3d Cit.- O , the ...
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accented Anapest beauty behold Blank Verse blessings bosom breath bright bright waves called Circumflex clouds consonant sounds Dactylic poetry dark dead death deep degree DEMOSTHENES divine earth elemental sounds Elocution eloquence emotions emphasis eternal EXAMPLES exercise EXPLANATORY NOTES.-1 expressed falchion falling inflection Father fear feel feet fire forest gaze glorious glory grandeur Greece hand happiness hath heart Heaven hight honor hope human immortal land LESSON liberty light live look loud mighty mind modulation mortal Mount Tabor mountain nations nature never night o'er pause peace Phidias Philiscus pitch poetic poetry proud quantity reading rising inflection rolling Rome scene sense silent smile soul speak spirit splendor stars sublime sweet syllables tears tences thee thine thou thought thousand thunder tion tone Trochee truth unto uttered virtue vocal voice vowel vowel sounds wandering waves wing wisdom words Xerxes
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Página 353 - The quality of mercy is not strain'd, — • It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath : it is twice bless'd, — It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes...
Página 357 - He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress...
Página 131 - I profess, sir, in my career hitherto, to have kept steadily in view the prosperity and honor of the whole country, and the preservation of our federal Union. It is to that Union we owe our safety at home, and our consideration and dignity abroad. It is to that Union that we are chiefly indebted for whatever makes us most proud of our country.
Página 341 - So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan that moves To the pale realms of shade, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
Página 152 - To make the weight for the winds ; And he weigheth the waters by measure. When he made a decree for the rain, And a way for the lightning of the thunder : Then did he see it, and declare it ; He prepared it, yea, and searched it out.
Página 191 - Ye pine-groves, with your soft and soul-like sounds ! And they too have a voice, yon piles of snow, And in their perilous fall shall thunder, God!
Página 31 - And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind. He made darkness his secret place ; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
Página 191 - Who made you glorious as the Gates of Heaven Beneath the keen full moon? Who bade the sun Clothe you with rainbows? Who, with living flowers Of loveliest blue, spread garlands at your feet? — God! let the torrents, like a shout of nations, Answer! and let the ice-plains echo, God!
Página 305 - The world recedes: it disappears! Heaven opens on my eyes! my ears With sounds seraphic ring: Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O Grave! where is thy Victory? O Death! where is thy Sting.
Página 163 - A million torches lighted by thy hand Wander unwearied through the blue abyss : They own thy power, accomplish thy command. All gay with life, all eloquent with bliss, What shall we call them ? Piles of crystal light, A glorious company of golden streams, Lamps of celestial ether burning bright, Suns lighting systems with their joyous beams ? But thou to these art as the noon to night.