The Fourth Reader, Or Exercises in Reading and Speaking Designed for the Higher Classes in Our Public and Private SchoolsSanborn & Carter, 1851 - 408 من الصفحات |
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... sublime . These selections offer choice exercises for almost every kind of modulation ; and frequent reference is also made from them , to the rules in the first part , by which the most essential elocutionary principles are drawn out ...
... sublime . These selections offer choice exercises for almost every kind of modulation ; and frequent reference is also made from them , to the rules in the first part , by which the most essential elocutionary principles are drawn out ...
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... sublime a creature , then , is man ! Where am I ? What sort of a place do I inhàbit ? Is it exactly accommodated , in every instance , to my convénience ? Is there no excess of cold , none of heat , to offend me ? Am I never annoyed by ...
... sublime a creature , then , is man ! Where am I ? What sort of a place do I inhàbit ? Is it exactly accommodated , in every instance , to my convénience ? Is there no excess of cold , none of heat , to offend me ? Am I never annoyed by ...
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... sublime event . When Columbus retired from the royal presence , he was attended to his residence by all the court , and followed by the shouting populace . For many days he was the object of universal curiosity , and wherever he ...
... sublime event . When Columbus retired from the royal presence , he was attended to his residence by all the court , and followed by the shouting populace . For many days he was the object of universal curiosity , and wherever he ...
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... sublime mission ; and it is to be expected that as many centuries as elapsed before the old world was ripened for his destroying scythe are again to be told , before he is to enjoy the perfected fruits of his present labors . LESSON ...
... sublime mission ; and it is to be expected that as many centuries as elapsed before the old world was ripened for his destroying scythe are again to be told , before he is to enjoy the perfected fruits of his present labors . LESSON ...
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... sublime , As when thou soaredst " in thy prime , On the bold Saxon's sight ; Thou holdest England's proudest dead , From him who there first laid his head , " The royal anchoret . " 3. Mysterious form , thy old gray wall Has seen ...
... sublime , As when thou soaredst " in thy prime , On the bold Saxon's sight ; Thou holdest England's proudest dead , From him who there first laid his head , " The royal anchoret . " 3. Mysterious form , thy old gray wall Has seen ...
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Anapestic ancholy ancient arms Aurelian beautiful behold beneath bosom brave bright Calais clouds dark dead death deep detona earth EXAMPLES fall father feel feet fire flowers forest friends gaze genius glory Goth grave Hafed hand happy heard heart heaven Herculaneum honor hour human hundred inflection Julius Cæsar Kilauea king labor land LESSON light live look ment mighty mind mountains nation nature never night o'er ocean passed pause Pliny the Younger Pompeii province of Spain rising rocks roll Rolla Roman Rome round Rule scene Scotland seemed shine shore silence smile solemn soul sound spirit splendor stalactites stars storm stream sublime syllables tears tempest temple thee things thou thought thousand thunder tion trees tremble Trochaic Trochee Ursa Major vast verse virtue voice waters waves wild wind wonders wooded crater words
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الصفحة 373 - Nor in the embrace of ocean shall exist Thy image. Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim Thy growth, to be resolved to earth again...
الصفحة 45 - There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats ; For I am armed so strong in honesty That they pass by me as the idle wind, Which I respect not.
الصفحة 374 - All that tread The globe are but a handful to the tribes That slumber in its bosom.
الصفحة 384 - All too will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal laws must protect, and to violate which would be oppression.
الصفحة 24 - Some Books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; That is, some Books are to be read only in parts; others to be read but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. Some Books also may be read by deputy...
الصفحة 373 - 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.
الصفحة 40 - The style of Dryden is capricious and varied ; that of Pope is cautious and uniform. Dryden obeys the motions of his own mind ; Pope constrains his mind to his own rules of composition. Dryden is sometimes vehement and rapid; Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gentle.
الصفحة 344 - He thinks the whole world sees it in his face, reads it in his eyes, and almost hears its workings in the very silence of his thoughts. It has become his master. It betrays his discretion, it breaks down his courage, it conquers his prudence. When suspicions from without begin to embarrass him, and the net of circumstance to entangle him, the fatal secret struggles with still greater violence to burst forth.
الصفحة 336 - Called upon by your country to defend its invaded rights, you accepted the sacred charge, before it had formed alliances, and whilst it was without funds or a government to support you. You have conducted the great military contest with wisdom and fortitude, invariably regarding the rights of the civil power through all disasters and changes.
الصفحة 73 - 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...