The School Reader: Designed as a Sequel to Sanders' Fourth 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 Schools. Fifth bookIvison & Phinney, 1855 - 456 Seiten |
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... splendor of the firmament , the ver`dure of the earth , the varied color of the flowers which fill the air with frag`rance , and the mu`sic of those artless voices which mingle on every tree , ―ail ' conspire to captivate our hearts ...
... splendor of the firmament , the ver`dure of the earth , the varied color of the flowers which fill the air with frag`rance , and the mu`sic of those artless voices which mingle on every tree , ―ail ' conspire to captivate our hearts ...
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... had no noon - day brightness , -no declining splendor . His whole course was light and glory ; and he left a heavenly and perennial brilliancy on the national horizon . LESSON IV . IMAGINARY AND REAL ENDOWMENTS . 1. THE 78 SCHOOL READER .
... had no noon - day brightness , -no declining splendor . His whole course was light and glory ; and he left a heavenly and perennial brilliancy on the national horizon . LESSON IV . IMAGINARY AND REAL ENDOWMENTS . 1. THE 78 SCHOOL READER .
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... splendor , their strength fails , and they sink into the dust . All the round world is but a sepulcher , and there is nothing which lives on its surface , that shall not be hidden and entombed beneath it . 2. Rivers , torrents , and ...
... splendor , their strength fails , and they sink into the dust . All the round world is but a sepulcher , and there is nothing which lives on its surface , that shall not be hidden and entombed beneath it . 2. Rivers , torrents , and ...
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... Locke ' and Newton ; yet they still stand alone in unapproached , --- in unapproachable majesty . 7. Nor may we pronounce that the present age , ly its col- lective splendor in arts and arms , casts into shade FIFTH BOOK . 107.
... Locke ' and Newton ; yet they still stand alone in unapproached , --- in unapproachable majesty . 7. Nor may we pronounce that the present age , ly its col- lective splendor in arts and arms , casts into shade FIFTH BOOK . 107.
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... splendor in arts and arms , casts into shade all former epochs . The era of Pericles witnessed a combination of tal- ents and acquirements , of celebrated deeds and celebrated works , which the lapse of twenty - two centuries has left ...
... splendor in arts and arms , casts into shade all former epochs . The era of Pericles witnessed a combination of tal- ents and acquirements , of celebrated deeds and celebrated works , which the lapse of twenty - two centuries has left ...
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accented Anapest Athens beauty behold Blank Verse blessings bosom breath bright bright waves called Circumflex clouds consonant sounds Dactylic poetry dark dead death deep degree divine earth elemental sounds Elocution eloquence emotions emphasis eternal EXAMPLES exercise EXPLANATORY NOTES.-1 expressed falchion falling inflection father fear feel feet fire forest gaze glorious glory grandeur Greece hand hath heart Heaven hight honor hope human immortal land LESSON liberty light live look loud mighty mind modulation mortal Mount Tabor mountain nations nature never night o'er patriot pause peace Phidias Philiscus pitch poetic poetry proud quantity reading rest rising inflection rolling Rome round scene sense silent smile soul speak spirit splendor stars sublime sweet syllables tences thee thine thou thought thousand thunder tion TROCHEE truth unto uttered virtue vocal voice vowel vowel sounds wandering waves wing wisdom words Xerxes
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Seite 236 - Thou turnest man to destruction ; And sayest, Return, ye children of men. For a thousand years in thy sight, Are but as yesterday when it is past, And as a watch in the night. Thou earnest them away as with a flood , They are as a sleep ; In the morning they are like grass which
Seite 406 - was heard from high. Arise ! ye more than dead! Then cold, and hot, and moist, and dry, In order to their stations, leap, And Music's voice obey. From harmony,—from heavenly harmony. This universal frame began. From harmony to harmony, Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man 1
Seite 71 - climes, we can not but exclaim, '' Westward the star of empire takes its way; The four first acts already past, The fifth shall close the drama with the day; Time's noblest offspring is the last." 7. In this high romance, if romance it be, in which the great minds of antiquity sketched the fortunes of the ages to
Seite 281 - OP FRIENDS. 1. Friend after friend departs ; Who hath not lost a friend ? There is no union here of hearts, That finds not here an end; Were this frail world our only rest, Living or dying, none were blessed. 2, Beyond the flight of Time, Beyond tins vale of death, There surely is some blessed clime
Seite 236 - of Thine anger ? Even according to Thy fear, so is Thy wrath. So teach us to number our days, That we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. Return, 0 Lord, how long ? And let it repent Thee concerning Thy servants. O satisfy us early with Thy mercy ; Make us glad according to the days wherein
Seite 150 - It can not be valued with the gold of Ophir,— With the precious onyx or the sapphire. The gold and the crystal can not equal it; And the exchange of it shall not be for jewels of fine gold. No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearla; For the price of wisdom is above
Seite 130 - a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood !— Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic, now known and honored throughout the earth, still full high advanced ; its arms and
Seite 130 - While the union lasts, we have high, exciting, gratifying prospects spread out before us, for us and our children. Beyond that I seek not to penetrate the vail. God grant that, in my day, at least, that curtain may not rise,—that on my vision never may be opened what lies behind.
Seite 355 - MODERN GREECE. 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, — Before decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers, And marked the mild angelic air, The rapture of repose that's there,—
Seite 130 - shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious union,— on Slates dissevered, discordant, belligerent,—on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood !— Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic, now known and honored throughout the earth, still full high advanced ; its arms and