The National Fourth Reader: Containing a Course of Instruction in Elocution, Exercises in Reading and Declamation, and Copious Notes : Giving the Pronunciation and Definitions of Words, Bibliographical Sketches of Persons Whose Names Occur in the Reading Lessons, and the Explanation of Classical and Historical AllusionsBarnes & Burr, 1864 - 432 páginas |
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... Tree .. 61. The Sailor's Song .... 62. The Landsman's Song . 64. Cruelty to Animals 65. Sensibility .... 67. To a Waterfowl .... 69. Perpetual Adoration 74. Seasons of Prayer . 79. The Days that are Gone . 82. A Parental Ode to my ...
... Tree .. 61. The Sailor's Song .... 62. The Landsman's Song . 64. Cruelty to Animals 65. Sensibility .... 67. To a Waterfowl .... 69. Perpetual Adoration 74. Seasons of Prayer . 79. The Days that are Gone . 82. A Parental Ode to my ...
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... generally has the rising inflection . EXAMPLES . 1. Every human being has the idea of duty ' ; and to unfold this idea , is the end for which life was given him . 2. The rocks crumble ' ; the trees fall ; 32 NATIONAL FOURTH READER .
... generally has the rising inflection . EXAMPLES . 1. Every human being has the idea of duty ' ; and to unfold this idea , is the end for which life was given him . 2. The rocks crumble ' ; the trees fall ; 32 NATIONAL FOURTH READER .
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... trees fall ; the leaves fade ' , and the grass withers . 3. The tears of the sufferers are already dried ' , their rage is hushed ' , their complaints are silenced ' , and they no longer claim our pity . 9. The language of command ...
... trees fall ; the leaves fade ' , and the grass withers . 3. The tears of the sufferers are already dried ' , their rage is hushed ' , their complaints are silenced ' , and they no longer claim our pity . 9. The language of command ...
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... shadowy forest trees ? It tells , with meaning sigh , Of the bowers of bliss on that viewless shore , Where the weary spirit shall sin no more . EXERCISE ON FORCE , Select a sentence , and deliver 36 NATIONAL FOURTH READER . Force.
... shadowy forest trees ? It tells , with meaning sigh , Of the bowers of bliss on that viewless shore , Where the weary spirit shall sin no more . EXERCISE ON FORCE , Select a sentence , and deliver 36 NATIONAL FOURTH READER . Force.
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... tree , or the growth of the banana , * a yearly and a loved monitor of the passage of her life . How cold and cheerless in the comparison , would be the icy chro- nology " of the North ; - -So many years have I seen the lakes locked ...
... tree , or the growth of the banana , * a yearly and a loved monitor of the passage of her life . How cold and cheerless in the comparison , would be the icy chro- nology " of the North ; - -So many years have I seen the lakes locked ...
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Página 412 - Little of all we value here Wakes on the morn of its hundredth year Without both feeling and looking queer. In fact, there's nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, but a tree and truth.
Página 426 - Ring out the grief that saps the mind, For those that here we see no more; Ring out the feud of rich and poor, Ring in redress to all mankind.
Página 341 - Ah, gentlemen ! that was a dreadful mistake. Such a secret can be safe nowhere. The whole creation of God has neither nook nor corner where the guilty can bestow it, and say it is safe.
Página 342 - The secret which the murderer possesses soon comes to possess him, and, like the evil spirits of which we read, it overcomes him, and leads him whithersoever it will. He feels it beating at his heart, rising to his throat, and demanding disclosure. He thinks the whole world sees it in his face, reads it in his eyes, and almost hears its workings in the very silence of his thoughts. It has become his master. It betrays his discretion, it breaks down his courage, it conquers his prudence. When suspicions...
Página 418 - Who take the ruffian billows by the top, Curling their monstrous heads, and hanging them With deaf'ning clamours in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly, death itself awakes ? Canst thou, O partial sleep! give thy repose To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude; And, in the calmest and most stillest night, With all appliances and means to boot, Deny it to a king ? Then, happy low, lie down ! Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
Página 425 - Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon in front of them Volley'd and thunder'd; Storm'd at with shot and shell, Boldly they rode and well, Into the jaws of Death, Into the mouth of hell Rode the six hundred. Flash'd all their sabres bare, Flash'd as they turn'd in air Sabring the gunners there, Charging an army, while All the world wonder'd. Plunged in the battery-smoke Right thro' the line they broke; Cossack and Russian Reel'd from the sabre-stroke Shatter'd and sunder'd.
Página 426 - Then they rode back, but not — Not the six hundred. Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon behind them Volley'd and thunder'd; Storm'd at with shot and shell, While horse and hero fell, They that had fought so well Came thro...
Página 351 - . when the last account 'twixt heaven and earth Is to be made, then shall this hand and seal Witness against us to damnation. How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds Makes deeds ill done...
Página 411 - Step and prop-iron, bolt and screw, Spring, tire, axle, and linchpin too, Steel of the finest, bright and blue; Thoroughbrace bison-skin, thick and wide; Boot, top, dasher, from tough old hide Found in the pit when the tanner died. That was the way he "put her through.
Página 424 - Forward, the Light Brigade ! Charge for the guns ! " he said : Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. " Forward, the Light Brigade...