North American Second Class Reader: The Fourth Book of Tower's Series for Common Schools : Developing Principles of Elocution, Practically Illustrated by Elementary Exercises : with Reading Lessons ... Designed to Follow the "Gradual Reader"Cady and Burgess, 1850 - 276 páginas |
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... thing necessary to explain its meaning . * * * " The reading lessons should be such as not only to form the voice , to educate the taste , and serve as suitable models for com- position , but to furnish food for the mind , materials for ...
... thing necessary to explain its meaning . * * * " The reading lessons should be such as not only to form the voice , to educate the taste , and serve as suitable models for com- position , but to furnish food for the mind , materials for ...
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... Things , ..... Story . 254 O. W. Holmes . 255 O. The Spider and the Bee , ... The Pin , Needle , and Scissors ,. Rewards of unremitted and virtuous Effort , The Same , concluded , .. A Psalm of Life , .. The Dutch Money - Digger , The ...
... Things , ..... Story . 254 O. W. Holmes . 255 O. The Spider and the Bee , ... The Pin , Needle , and Scissors ,. Rewards of unremitted and virtuous Effort , The Same , concluded , .. A Psalm of Life , .. The Dutch Money - Digger , The ...
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... things which pass in the mind beside ideas . We are not wholly made up of intellect . The opera- tions of the fancy and of the passions are attended with an infinite variety of emotions , both in kind and degree , giving to the thoughts ...
... things which pass in the mind beside ideas . We are not wholly made up of intellect . The opera- tions of the fancy and of the passions are attended with an infinite variety of emotions , both in kind and degree , giving to the thoughts ...
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... thing denied the rising inflection . EXAMPLES . The quality of mercy is not strained ' . It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath . 28. It is not grief that bids me moan ; It is that I am all alone . 29. It is ...
... thing denied the rising inflection . EXAMPLES . The quality of mercy is not strained ' . It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath . 28. It is not grief that bids me moan ; It is that I am all alone . 29. It is ...
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... things which the word " it " represents , was not so at all ; only that it was not so at " the begin- ning , " although it had become so afterwards . The sentence may be thus arranged : " It was not so from the beginning ' . " It must ...
... things which the word " it " represents , was not so at all ; only that it was not so at " the begin- ning , " although it had become so afterwards . The sentence may be thus arranged : " It was not so from the beginning ' . " It must ...
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animal beauty black knight blessings blossoms boys like girls bright Cæsar called Captain Kidd Cato Charlestown circumflex creatures death dream earth elocution emphasis enjoyment evil exercise expression falling inflection father favorable feel flowers force friends genius give glorious glory grave Hampshire's granite hand happiness hast hath heart heaven helmet of Navarre Henry of Navarre hills hope human Hypanis Inchcape rock Jonathan Juba KNIGHT ERRANTRY labor land learned lesson live look manner meaning ment mind nature never night o'er pass passion pause perfect PERICARDIUM Peter Stuyvesant pleasure poor present pupil remaining bands ringing sound rising inflection Roche scene season sentence sentiment short sorrow soul speak spring stress sublime syllables tears tender thee thing thou thought thousand tion toil uttered voice wind wisdom Wolfert words
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Página 175 - O Caledonia ! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child ! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood...
Página 135 - And what is so rare as a day in June ? Then, if ever, come perfect days; Then Heaven tries the earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays : Whether we look, or whether we listen, We hear life murmur, or see it glisten ; Every clod feels a stir of might. An instinct within it that reaches and towers, And, groping blindly above it for light, Climbs to a soul in grass and flowers...
Página 171 - THE way was long, the wind was cold, The Minstrel was infirm and old ; His wither'd cheek, and tresses grey, Seem'd to have known a better day ; The harp, his sole remaining joy, Was carried by an orphan boy. The last of all the Bards was he, Who sung of Border chivalry...
Página 275 - Now, by the lips of those ye love, fair gentlemen of France, Charge for the golden lilies now, upon them with the lance ! A thousand spurs are striking deep, a thousand spears in rest, A thousand knights are pressing close behind the snow-white crest ; And in they burst, and on they rushed, while, like a guiding star, Amidst the thickest carnage blazed the helmet of Navarre.
Página 74 - His lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed: Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury.
Página 128 - No, the love which survives the tomb is one of the noblest attributes of the soul. If it has its woes, it has likewise its delights; and when the overwhelming burst of grief is calmed into the gentle tear of recollection...
Página 91 - Speak gently ; it is better far To rule by love than fear ; Speak gently — let no harsh words mar The good we might do here.
Página 135 - The little bird sits at his door in the sun, Atilt like a blossom among the leaves, And lets his illumined being o'errun With the deluge of summer it receives; His mate feels the eggs beneath her wings, And the heart in her dumb breast flutters and sings; He sings to the wide world, and she to her nest, — In the nice ear of Nature which song is the best...
Página 130 - ... then be sure that every unkind look, every ungracious word, every ungentle action, will come thronging back upon thy memory and knocking dolefully at thy soul — then be sure that thou wilt lie down sorrowing and repentant on the grave, and utter the unheard groan, and pour the unavailing tear ; more deep, more bitter, because unheard and unavailing.
Página 260 - But whatever may be our fate, be assured, be assured that this Declaration will stand. It may cost treasure, and it may cost blood; but it will stand, and it will richly compensate for both. Through the thick gloom of the present, I see the brightness of the future, as the sun in heaven.