The Fifth ReaderE.H. Butler & Company, 1853 - 384 páginas |
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... taken from the best authors , beginning with those of the pres- ent day , and ranging back , in the order of their birth , to the days of Shakespeare and the English Bible . These selections are accompanied with biographical , critical ...
... taken from the best authors , beginning with those of the pres- ent day , and ranging back , in the order of their birth , to the days of Shakespeare and the English Bible . These selections are accompanied with biographical , critical ...
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... taken sepa- rately . It includes not only a correct articulation of the elements of a word , but also a proper placing of the accent . A proper knowledge of the sounds of letters can be ac- quired only by example , and by the aid of ...
... taken sepa- rately . It includes not only a correct articulation of the elements of a word , but also a proper placing of the accent . A proper knowledge of the sounds of letters can be ac- quired only by example , and by the aid of ...
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... taken to avoid a sing - song tone in attempting to give the proper pauses , which sometimes constitute the chief distinction between prose and poetry . TONES . TONES are those changes of the voice which INTRODUCTION . 19.
... taken to avoid a sing - song tone in attempting to give the proper pauses , which sometimes constitute the chief distinction between prose and poetry . TONES . TONES are those changes of the voice which INTRODUCTION . 19.
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... taken for granted is so taken at one's own peril . Fact and reason are the ulti- mate arbiters , and patience and honesty are the great helpers out of difficulty . 5. But if scientific training is to yield its most emi- nent results ...
... taken for granted is so taken at one's own peril . Fact and reason are the ulti- mate arbiters , and patience and honesty are the great helpers out of difficulty . 5. But if scientific training is to yield its most emi- nent results ...
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... warrior dieth , His comrades in the war , With arms reversed and muffled drum , Follow his funeral car . They show the banners taken , They tell his battles won , And after him lead his masterless steed , While peals FIFTH READER . 47.
... warrior dieth , His comrades in the war , With arms reversed and muffled drum , Follow his funeral car . They show the banners taken , They tell his battles won , And after him lead his masterless steed , While peals FIFTH READER . 47.
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Absalom afterward Annabel Lee barefoot boy battle BATTLE OF BANNOCKBURN beautiful began beneath bird blessing born breath brow Caliph CHARLES KINGSLEY child cloud colonel command Cornelius Harnett cried dark dead death deep Deerslayer DEFINITIONS.-1 died earth England English Erin go bragh eyes face feeling fell fire Florac flowers Floy friends give green hand hear heard heart heaven hill honor Horatius horse hour John John Hull king land Lars Porsena laugh light living looked Lord loud Malay morning mother natural never night o'er ocean oŭs pass poems poet poetry poor rest Richelieu river round Scotland seemed shore silent sleep smile soul sound South Carolina spirit stood stream sweet thee thou art thought turned Twas voice waves wind woods words writings wrote Yale College young
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Página 296 - It is substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government The rule, indeed, extends with more or less force to every species of free government. Who, that is a sincere friend to it, can look with indifference upon attempts to shake the foundation of the fabric ? Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge.
Página 178 - Full on this casement shone the wintry moon, And threw warm gules on Madeline's fair breast, As down she knelt for heaven's grace and boon; Rose-bloom fell on her hands, together prest, And on her silver cross soft amethyst, And on her hair a glory, like a saint: She seemed a splendid angel, newly drest, Save wings, for heaven: Porphyro grew faint: She knelt, so pure a thing, so free from mortal taint.
Página 309 - Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden flower grows wild, There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change, his place...
Página 107 - Year after year beheld the silent toil That spread his lustrous coil; Still, as the spiral grew, He left the past year's dwelling for the new, Stole with soft step its shining archway through, Built up its idle door, Stretched in his last-found home, and knew the old no more.
Página 96 - But our love it was stronger by far than the love Of those who were older than we— Of many far wiser than we— And neither the angels in heaven above, Nor the demons down under the sea, Can ever dissever my soul from the soul Of the beautiful Annabel Lee. For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams Of the beautiful Annabel Lee...
Página 376 - And bid them speak for me: but were I Brutus, And Brutus Antony, there were an Antony Would ruffle up your spirits and put a tongue In every wound of Caesar that should move The stones of Rome to rise and mutiny.
Página 310 - Beside the bed where parting life was laid, And sorrow, guilt, and pain by turns dismayed, The reverend champion stood. At his control Despair and anguish fled the struggling soul ; Comfort came down the trembling wretch to raise, And his last faltering accents whispered praise.
Página 313 - 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.
Página 183 - Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world, — with kings, The powerful of the earth, the wise, the good, Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre.
Página 311 - Yet he was kind, or if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault. The village all declared how much he knew, 'Twas certain he could write, and cipher too; Lands he could measure, terms and tides presage, And e'en the story ran that he could gauge.