The Model Speaker: Consisting of Exercises in Prose and Poetry. For the Use of Schools, Academies, and CollegesEldredge & Brother, 1872 - 382 páginas |
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... Leave not a rack behind . Correct pronunciation and accent can be obtained only by following the rules laid down in some standard dictionary . Emphasis is a stress of voice laid upon a word or a phrase , in order to bring out its ...
... Leave not a rack behind . Correct pronunciation and accent can be obtained only by following the rules laid down in some standard dictionary . Emphasis is a stress of voice laid upon a word or a phrase , in order to bring out its ...
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... Leaving the plough , and the anvil , and loom . Rust dims the harvest - sheen Of scythe and of sickle keen ; The axe sleeps in peace by the tree it would mar ; Veteran and youth are out , Swelling the battle - shout , Grasping the bolts ...
... Leaving the plough , and the anvil , and loom . Rust dims the harvest - sheen Of scythe and of sickle keen ; The axe sleeps in peace by the tree it would mar ; Veteran and youth are out , Swelling the battle - shout , Grasping the bolts ...
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... leave me , as my hopes have flown before . " Then the bird said , “ Nevermore ! ” Startled at the stillness , broken by reply so aptly spoken , " Doubtless , " said I , " what it utters is its only stock and store , Caught from some ...
... leave me , as my hopes have flown before . " Then the bird said , “ Nevermore ! ” Startled at the stillness , broken by reply so aptly spoken , " Doubtless , " said I , " what it utters is its only stock and store , Caught from some ...
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... Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken ! Leave my loneliness unbroken ! quit the bust above my door ! Take thy beak from out my heart , and take thy form from off my door ! " Quoth the raven , " Nevermore ...
... Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken ! Leave my loneliness unbroken ! quit the bust above my door ! Take thy beak from out my heart , and take thy form from off my door ! " Quoth the raven , " Nevermore ...
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... leaving with meekness Her sins to her Saviour ! SHERIDAN'S RIDE . [ P from the South , at break of day , U dismay , The affrighted air with a shudder bore , Like a herald in haste to the chieftain's door , The terrible grumble , and ...
... leaving with meekness Her sins to her Saviour ! SHERIDAN'S RIDE . [ P from the South , at break of day , U dismay , The affrighted air with a shudder bore , Like a herald in haste to the chieftain's door , The terrible grumble , and ...
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arms battle beautiful beneath Bingen blessed blood bosom brave breast breath bright brow Brutus Cæsar cheek child Cicero cloud cold cried dare dark dead dear death deep dream dying earth eyes face father forever Forever never friends galloped gentlemen glorious glory grave hand hast hath head hear heard heart heaven helmet of Navarre Henry of Navarre holy honor hope hour Hurrah king land Lars Porsena liberty lictors light lips living look lord mighty Minnehaha mother neath never Never forever Nevermore night noble o'er pale patriotism praise prayer Quoth the raven roar Roman Rome round Shamus shore shout silent sleep smile snow sorrow soul South Carolina Spartacus spirit stand stars stood STUART HOLLAND sweet sword tears tell tempest thee thou thought thunder voice waves weary weep wild word young
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Página 267 - And spit upon my Jewish gaberdine, And all for use of that which is mine own. Well then, it now appears you need my help : Go to, then ; you come to me, and you say " Shylock, we would have moneys...
Página 237 - When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child ; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see through a glass darkly ; but then face to face : now I know in part ; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
Página 154 - With a bare bodkin ? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life ; But that the dread of something after death, — The undiscovered country, from whose bourn No traveller returns, — puzzles the will ; And makes us rather bear those ills we have, Than fly to others that we know not of? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all...
Página 23 - AT midnight, in his guarded tent, The Turk was dreaming of the hour When Greece, her knee in suppliance bent, Should tremble at his power ; In dreams, through camp and court, he bore The trophies of a conqueror ; In dreams his song of triumph heard. Then wore his monarch's signet ring, Then pressed that monarch's throne — a King ; As wild his thoughts, and gay of wing, As Eden's garden bird.
Página 358 - Oh, the bells, bells, bells! What a tale their terror tells Of Despair! How they clang, and clash, and roar! What a horror they outpour On the bosom of the palpitating air! Yet the ear it fully knows, By the twanging And the clanging, How the danger ebbs and flows; Yet the ear distinctly tells, In the jangling And the wrangling, How the danger sinks and swells, — By the sinking or the swelling in the anger of the bells, Of the bells, Of the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells — In...
Página 122 - We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? Are we disposed to be of the number of those who, having eyes, see not, and having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it....
Página 311 - Let's dry our eyes ; and thus far hear me, Cromwell, And when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And sleep in dull cold marble, where no mention Of me more must be heard of, say I taught thee ; Say, Wolsey, that once trod the ways of glory, And sounded all the depths and shoals of honor...
Página 125 - ... 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 trophies streaming in their original lustre : not a stripe erased or polluted, nor a single star obscured : bearing for its motto, no such miserable interrogatory as, What is all this worth...
Página 309 - All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players : They have their exits and their entrances ; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
Página 324 - On forfeit of my hands, my head, my heart: If this will not suffice, it must appear That malice bears down truth. And I beseech you, Wrest once the law to your authority: To do a great right, do a little wrong, And curb this cruel devil of his will.