The Sixth Reader of the United States Series: Embracing, in Brief, the Principles of Rhetoric, Criticism, Eloquence, and Oratory, as Applied to Both Prose and Poetry, the Whole Adapted to Elocutionary InstructionHarper & Brothers, 1872 - 372 páginas |
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... Dying Gladiator ... XCVIII . Macbeth's Vision ....... Modifications of Vision .. ..Byron ; MONTGOMERY . 241 .SHAKSPEARE . 242 I. The Progress of Mind ; II . Newton's Attainments . XVIII . REPETITION . XCIX . Character of Repetition ...
... Dying Gladiator ... XCVIII . Macbeth's Vision ....... Modifications of Vision .. ..Byron ; MONTGOMERY . 241 .SHAKSPEARE . 242 I. The Progress of Mind ; II . Newton's Attainments . XVIII . REPETITION . XCIX . Character of Repetition ...
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... dying ' , and behold we live ' ; as chas- tened ' , and not killed ' ; as sorrowful ' , yet always rejoicing` ; as poor ' , yet making many rich ' ; as having nothing ' , yet possessing all things ' . When our vices leave us ' , we ...
... dying ' , and behold we live ' ; as chas- tened ' , and not killed ' ; as sorrowful ' , yet always rejoicing` ; as poor ' , yet making many rich ' ; as having nothing ' , yet possessing all things ' . When our vices leave us ' , we ...
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... died in 1774. - The pupil should be able to tell what por- tions are narrative , and what descriptive in this lesson . Although it is mostly narra- tive , yet the following portions are descriptive : ( 1. ) The Dwarf and the Giant are ...
... died in 1774. - The pupil should be able to tell what por- tions are narrative , and what descriptive in this lesson . Although it is mostly narra- tive , yet the following portions are descriptive : ( 1. ) The Dwarf and the Giant are ...
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... died in New York in 1858. He is well known as the proprietor and conductor of " Hunt's Merchants ' Magazine . " This may be either a true or a fictitious narrative , in the dialogue style ( see p.223 ) . Let the pupil point out those ...
... died in New York in 1858. He is well known as the proprietor and conductor of " Hunt's Merchants ' Magazine . " This may be either a true or a fictitious narrative , in the dialogue style ( see p.223 ) . Let the pupil point out those ...
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... died in 1843. In 1813 he was appointed poet laureate - an officer whose busi- ness it is to compose an ode annually , for the king's birthday , and other suitable occasions . In the year 1704 , during the " War of the Spanish Succession ...
... died in 1843. In 1813 he was appointed poet laureate - an officer whose busi- ness it is to compose an ode annually , for the king's birthday , and other suitable occasions . In the year 1704 , during the " War of the Spanish Succession ...
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Página 285 - When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last time, the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States 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...
Página 101 - Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more ? Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth his promise fail for evermore? Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies?
Página 79 - ... for expert men can execute and perhaps judge of particulars one by one, but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned.
Página 327 - The bell strikes one. We take no note of time, But from its loss. To give it then a tongue, Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours: Where are they?
Página 241 - I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand ; his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his drooped head sinks gradually low : And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower ; and now The arena swims around him ; he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won.
Página 285 - I have not allowed myself, sir, to look beyond the Union, to see what might lie hidden in the dark recess behind. I have not coolly weighed the chances of preserving liberty when the bonds that unite us together shall be broken asunder. I have not accustomed myself to hang over the precipice of disunion, to see whether, with my short sight, I can fathom the depth of the abyss below...
Página 182 - And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth : so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered.
Página 168 - Now his elder son was in the field; and as he came and drew nigh to the house, he heard music and dancing.
Página 54 - A shade of sadness, a blush of shame Over the face of the leader came; The nobler nature within him stirred To life at that woman's deed and word: "Who touches a hair of yon gray head Dies like a dog! March on!
Página 167 - And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living. And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land ; and he began to be in want.