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 oldal |
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42. oldal
... departed from , and they receive the falling inflection , corresponding in intensity with the degree of emphasis . EXAMPLES . 1. What I say unto you , I say unto all ' , - watch ! 2. Man would not only be an unhappy , but a rude` and ...
... departed from , and they receive the falling inflection , corresponding in intensity with the degree of emphasis . EXAMPLES . 1. What I say unto you , I say unto all ' , - watch ! 2. Man would not only be an unhappy , but a rude` and ...
72. oldal
... departed wise and good , of all places and times , are looking down from their happy seats to witness what shall now be done by us ; that they who lavished their treasures and their blood of old , who labored and suffered , who spake ...
... departed wise and good , of all places and times , are looking down from their happy seats to witness what shall now be done by us ; that they who lavished their treasures and their blood of old , who labored and suffered , who spake ...
90. oldal
... fevered being pours Transmuting balsam ! -Stay , Enonio , stay ! Thy brother calls thee not ! —The spirit world Where the departed go , sends back to earth No visitants for evil . - Tis the might Of 90 SCHOOL READER . Life is What we make.
... fevered being pours Transmuting balsam ! -Stay , Enonio , stay ! Thy brother calls thee not ! —The spirit world Where the departed go , sends back to earth No visitants for evil . - Tis the might Of 90 SCHOOL READER . Life is What we make.
146. oldal
... departed hours . Where are they ? With the years beyond the flood . 7. It is the signal that demands dispatch ; - How much is to be done ? My hopes and fears Start up alarmed , and o'er life's narrow verge Look down -- on what ? A ...
... departed hours . Where are they ? With the years beyond the flood . 7. It is the signal that demands dispatch ; - How much is to be done ? My hopes and fears Start up alarmed , and o'er life's narrow verge Look down -- on what ? A ...
180. oldal
... departed greatness , and * never thinks , when walking the village church - yard with its rude memorials of the fathers of the valley , that , possibly , there sleeps beneath his feet one who , if early taught , might have trod with a ...
... departed greatness , and * never thinks , when walking the village church - yard with its rude memorials of the fathers of the valley , that , possibly , there sleeps beneath his feet one who , if early taught , might have trod with a ...
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353. oldal - 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...
357. oldal - 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...
131. oldal - 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.
341. oldal - 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.
152. oldal - 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.
191. oldal - 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!
31. oldal - 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.
191. oldal - 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!
305. oldal - 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.
163. oldal - 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.