Town's Third Reader: Containing a Selection of Lessons, Exclusively from American AuthorsH. & E. Phinney, 1848 - 288 páginas |
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... 271 Fortune's Frolic ,. do . Allingham , 274 A Scene in the Catskill Mountains . Mellen ,. To Seneca Lake . Percival ,. . . . . 280 282 Rules for Pronouncing ,. 283 RULES AND OBSERVATIONS ON READING . To become a good VI CONTENTS .
... 271 Fortune's Frolic ,. do . Allingham , 274 A Scene in the Catskill Mountains . Mellen ,. To Seneca Lake . Percival ,. . . . . 280 282 Rules for Pronouncing ,. 283 RULES AND OBSERVATIONS ON READING . To become a good VI CONTENTS .
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... mountain , the ornaments of a building , the expression of a picture , and the composition of a discóurse , are to some persons matters of little or no interest . RULE 5. The expression of tender emotions inclines the voice to a gentle ...
... mountain , the ornaments of a building , the expression of a picture , and the composition of a discóurse , are to some persons matters of little or no interest . RULE 5. The expression of tender emotions inclines the voice to a gentle ...
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... mountains and the glades . The thick arrows and the deadly tomahawk whistled through the forests ; and the hunter's trace and the dark encampment startled the wild beasts in their lairs . The warriors stood forth in their glory . The ...
... mountains and the glades . The thick arrows and the deadly tomahawk whistled through the forests ; and the hunter's trace and the dark encampment startled the wild beasts in their lairs . The warriors stood forth in their glory . The ...
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... mountain , and entered the buried cities of the plains . Pompeii and Herculaneum ! once gay cities - long buried ... mountains ! It floats in majesty like the echo of the thunder ! It breathes solem- nity like a sound from the tombs ...
... mountain , and entered the buried cities of the plains . Pompeii and Herculaneum ! once gay cities - long buried ... mountains ! It floats in majesty like the echo of the thunder ! It breathes solem- nity like a sound from the tombs ...
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... mountain ! - Hark ! a roar , a crash ! and the very foundations of the eternal hills are belched forth in a sea of fire ! Wo for that fated city ! The torrent comes surging like the mad ocean , -it boils above wall and tower , palace ...
... mountain ! - Hark ! a roar , a crash ! and the very foundations of the eternal hills are belched forth in a sea of fire ! Wo for that fated city ! The torrent comes surging like the mad ocean , -it boils above wall and tower , palace ...
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Página 213 - To him who in the love of nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware.
Página 16 - Motionless torrents! silent cataracts! 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 15 - Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these...
Página 222 - Let our object be, our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country. And, by the blessing of God, may that country itself become a vast and splendid monument, not of oppression and terror, but of wisdom, of peace, and of liberty, upon which the world may gazo with admiration, forever I VOL.
Página 13 - But Paul said unto them, They have beaten us openly uncondemned, being Romans, and have cast us into prison ; and now do they thrust us out privily? nay verily; but let them come themselves and fetch us out.
Página 228 - Affected passion, intense expression, the pomp of declamation, all may aspire after it — they cannot reach it.
Página 222 - Our proper business is improvement. Let our age be the age of improvement. In a day of peace, let us advance the arts of peace and the works of peace. Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.
Página 250 - Happy in the confirmation of our independence and sovereignty, and pleased with the opportunity afforded the United States of becoming a respectable nation, I resign with satisfaction the appointment I accepted with diffidence, — a diffidence in my abilities to accomplish so arduous a task ; which, however, was superseded by a confidence in the rectitude of our cause, the support of the supreme power of the Union, and the patronage of heaven.
Página 147 - Oh, the grave! The grave! It buries every error — covers every defect — extinguishes every resentment! From its peaceful bosom spring none but fond regrets and tender recollections. Who can look down upon the grave even of an enemy and not feel a compunctious throb that he should ever have warred with the poor handful of earth that lies moldering before him.
Página 148 - If thou art a child, and hast ever added a sorrow to the soul, or a furrow to the silvered brow of an affectionate parent; if thou art a husband, and hast ever caused the fond bosom that ventured its whole happiness in thy arms to doubt one moment of thy kindness or thy truth...