Analytical Fifth-[sixth] Reader: Containing an Introductory Article on the General Principles of Elocution [etc.]G. & C.W. Sherwood, 1867 |
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... Mountain , ..... Harry Hibbard .......... 67 Analysis of the same , .. 2. Adventure with a Buffalo , 68 William J. Snelling ..... 74 3. The Children's Hour , ..... 4. Oliver Cromwell ,. ... H . W. Longfellow ...... 78 Charles Dickens 79 ...
... Mountain , ..... Harry Hibbard .......... 67 Analysis of the same , .. 2. Adventure with a Buffalo , 68 William J. Snelling ..... 74 3. The Children's Hour , ..... 4. Oliver Cromwell ,. ... H . W. Longfellow ...... 78 Charles Dickens 79 ...
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... Mountain , together with the general questions on the piece , and the special ques- tions on the first stanza . Only very able and well disci- plined pupils can do so much at one lesson . For most , the 14 lesson should not exceed one ...
... Mountain , together with the general questions on the piece , and the special ques- tions on the first stanza . Only very able and well disci- plined pupils can do so much at one lesson . For most , the 14 lesson should not exceed one ...
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... MOUNTAIN . HARRY HIBBARD , At the Franconia Notch , in the White Mountains , in New Hampshire , there is a group of rocks at the top of one of the precipices , so placed that , when viewed from a certain point , they present the ...
... MOUNTAIN . HARRY HIBBARD , At the Franconia Notch , in the White Mountains , in New Hampshire , there is a group of rocks at the top of one of the precipices , so placed that , when viewed from a certain point , they present the ...
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... Mountain , awfully There from thy wreath of clouds thou dost uprear Those features grand , the same eternally ! Lone dweller ' mid the hills ! with gaze austere Thou lookest down , methinks , on all below thee here ! 4. And curious ...
... Mountain , awfully There from thy wreath of clouds thou dost uprear Those features grand , the same eternally ! Lone dweller ' mid the hills ! with gaze austere Thou lookest down , methinks , on all below thee here ! 4. And curious ...
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... mountain summit " ? How far off is this one ? Point to it in your picture . What is meant by " towering high " ? Where are you directed to " pause " ? Why should you pause ? What is it to " espy " ? What is meant by " gaze , " in the ...
... mountain summit " ? How far off is this one ? Point to it in your picture . What is meant by " towering high " ? Where are you directed to " pause " ? Why should you pause ? What is it to " espy " ? What is meant by " gaze , " in the ...
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Page 113 - At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorned the venerable place; Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway; And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.
Page 326 - Let me play the Fool : With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come ; And let my liver rather heat with wine, Than my heart cool with mortifying groans. Why should a man, whose blood is warm within, Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster ? Sleep when he wakes?
Page 278 - Thou visitest the earth and waterest it : thou greatly enrichest it with the river of God, which is full of water: thou preparest them corn, when thou hast so provided for it.
Page 251 - Towards the preservation of your government, and the permanency of your present happy state, it is requisite, not only that you steadily discountenance irregular oppositions to its acknowledged authority, but also that you resist with care the spirit of innovation upon its principles however specious the pretexts.
Page 393 - And I have loved thee, Ocean ! and my joy Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be Borne, like thy bubbles, onward : from a boy I wantoned with thy breakers — they to me Were a delight : and if the freshening sea Made them a terror — 'twas a pleasing fear, For I was as it were a child of thee, And trusted to thy billows far and near, And laid my hand upon thy mane — as I do here.
Page 226 - Yet not the more Cease I to wander where the Muses haunt Clear spring, or shady grove, or sunny hill, Smit with the love of sacred song...
Page 57 - tis said, when all were fired, Filled with fury, rapt, inspired, From the supporting myrtles round They snatched her instruments of sound ; And, as they oft had heard apart Sweet lessons of her forceful art, Each (for Madness ruled the hour) Would prove his own expressive power.
Page 281 - I REMEMBER, I REMEMBER. I REMEMBER, I remember The house where I was born, The little window where the sun Came peeping in at morn : He never came a wink too soon, Nor brought too long a day, But now I often wish the night Had borne my breath away ! I remember, I remember...
Page 251 - However combinations or associations of the above description may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.
Page 54 - I cannot tell what you and other men Think of this life, but, for my single self, I had as lief not be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself.