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, Biographical Sketches of Persons Whose Names Occur in the Reading Lessons, and the Explanation of Classical and Historical AllusionsA.S. Barnes & Burr, 1859 - 408 páginas |
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... winds , like frightful fiends , howl , and moan , and send sharp , shrill , shrieks through the creaking cordage , snapping the sheets and masts . The sturdy sailors stand to their tasks , and weather the severest storm of the season ...
... winds , like frightful fiends , howl , and moan , and send sharp , shrill , shrieks through the creaking cordage , snapping the sheets and masts . The sturdy sailors stand to their tasks , and weather the severest storm of the season ...
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... winds and fly . Wily dost thou come to my presence with thy shadowy arms ? Do I FEAR thy gloomy form , dismal spirit of Loda ? WEAK is thy shield of clouds ; FEEBLE is that meteor , thy sword . 18. Speak the speech , I pray you , as I ...
... winds and fly . Wily dost thou come to my presence with thy shadowy arms ? Do I FEAR thy gloomy form , dismal spirit of Loda ? WEAK is thy shield of clouds ; FEEBLE is that meteor , thy sword . 18. Speak the speech , I pray you , as I ...
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... winds must not hear it , ' tis a foul murder` . 6. What a piece of work is man ' ! what a subject of contra- diction ' ! how noble ' ! how mean ! the glory and the scandal of the universe ' . 10. The last member of a commencing series ...
... winds must not hear it , ' tis a foul murder` . 6. What a piece of work is man ' ! what a subject of contra- diction ' ! how noble ' ! how mean ! the glory and the scandal of the universe ' . 10. The last member of a commencing series ...
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... The still and pulseless world . Hark ! on the winds The bells ' deep tones are swelling ; - ' tis the knell Of the departed year . EXERCISE ON PITCH . be re- Select a sentence , PITCH . 35 -MODULATION 85 Pitch The Fisherman of Casco.
... The still and pulseless world . Hark ! on the winds The bells ' deep tones are swelling ; - ' tis the knell Of the departed year . EXERCISE ON PITCH . be re- Select a sentence , PITCH . 35 -MODULATION 85 Pitch The Fisherman of Casco.
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... winds slowly o'er the lea ; The plowman homeward plods his weary way , And leaves the world to darkness and to me . EXERCISE ON RATE . Select a sentence , and deliver it as slow as may be possible , without drawling . Repeat the ...
... winds slowly o'er the lea ; The plowman homeward plods his weary way , And leaves the world to darkness and to me . EXERCISE ON RATE . Select a sentence , and deliver it as slow as may be possible , without drawling . Repeat the ...
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Página 350 - I saw a smith stand with his hammer, thus, The whilst his iron did on the anvil cool, With open mouth swallowing a tailor's news ; Who, with his shears and measure in his hand, Standing on slippers, (which his nimble haste Had falsely thrust upon contrary feet) Told of a many thousand warlike French, That were embattailed and rank'd in Kent.
Página 26 - Who is here so base that would be a bondman? If any, speak; for him have I offended. Who is here so rude that would not be a Roman?
Página 282 - If I am right, Thy grace impart, Still in the right to stay ; If I am wrong, oh, teach my heart To find that better way.
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 di.sclosure. 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.
Página 390 - That skins the vice o' the top. Go to your bosom ; Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know That 's like my brother's fault : if it confess A natural guiltiness such as is his, Let it not sound a thought upon your tongue Against my brother's life.
Página 26 - O, now you weep, and I perceive you feel The dint of pity; these are gracious drops. Kind souls, what! weep you when you but behold Our Caesar's vesture wounded ? Look you here, Here is himself, marr'd as you see, with traitors.
Página 376 - If thou art a child, and hast ever added a sorrow to the soul, or a furrow to the silvered brow of an affectionate parent — if thou art a husband, and hast ever caused the fond bosom that ventured its whole happiness in thy arms, to doubt one moment of thy kindness or thy truth...
Página 26 - Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue : but if you mouth it, as many of our players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines.
Página 36 - I hate him for he is a Christian; But more for that in low simplicity He lends out money gratis, and brings down The rate of usance here with us in Venice. If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.
Página 31 - A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.