The Fourth Reader: Or, Exercises in Reading and Speaking. Designed for the Higher Classes in Our Public and Private SchoolsPhinney & Company, 1847 - 408 pàgines |
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Pàgina 25
... tree that bears no fruit , deserves no name . The man of wisdom , is the man of years . NARCISSA'S youth has lectured me thus far . And can her gayety give counsel too ? That , like the Jew's famed oracle of gems , Sparkles instruction ...
... tree that bears no fruit , deserves no name . The man of wisdom , is the man of years . NARCISSA'S youth has lectured me thus far . And can her gayety give counsel too ? That , like the Jew's famed oracle of gems , Sparkles instruction ...
Pàgina 47
... tree grew on the plain ; its branches were cov- ered with verdure ; its boughs spread wide , and made a good- ly shadow ; the trunk was like a strong pillar ; the roots were like crooked fangs . I returned ; the verdure was nipped by ...
... tree grew on the plain ; its branches were cov- ered with verdure ; its boughs spread wide , and made a good- ly shadow ; the trunk was like a strong pillar ; the roots were like crooked fangs . I returned ; the verdure was nipped by ...
Pàgina 55
... trees . They in thy sun Budded , and shook their green leaves in thy breeze , And shot toward heaven . The century - living crow , Whose birth was in their tops , grew old and died Among their branches , till , at last , they stood , As ...
... trees . They in thy sun Budded , and shook their green leaves in thy breeze , And shot toward heaven . The century - living crow , Whose birth was in their tops , grew old and died Among their branches , till , at last , they stood , As ...
Pàgina 56
... trees . The thunder burst in tre- mendous explosions ; the peals were echoed from mountain to moun- tain ; they crashed upon Dunderburg , and then rolled up the long defile of the highlands , each headland making a new echo , until old ...
... trees . The thunder burst in tre- mendous explosions ; the peals were echoed from mountain to moun- tain ; they crashed upon Dunderburg , and then rolled up the long defile of the highlands , each headland making a new echo , until old ...
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... trees . The final pause occurs at the end of the line , and marks the meas- ure , both in rhyme and blank verse . EXAMPLES . O Muse , the causes and the crimes relate ; What goddess was provoked , and whence her hate ; For what offence ...
... trees . The final pause occurs at the end of the line , and marks the meas- ure , both in rhyme and blank verse . EXAMPLES . O Muse , the causes and the crimes relate ; What goddess was provoked , and whence her hate ; For what offence ...
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Anapestic ancholy ancient arms Aurelian beautiful behold beneath blood bosom brave breeze bright Calais clouds dark dead death deep detona earth EXAMPLES fall feel feet fire flowers forest forever friends gaze genius glory Goth grave Hafed hand happy heard heart heaven Herculaneum honor hour human hundred Iambus Illustrate Rule inflection Julius Cæsar Kilauea king labor land LESSON light live look ment mighty mind mountains nature never night o'er ocean passed pause Pliny the Younger Pompeii province of Spain rising rocks roll Rolla Roman Rome round scene seemed shine shore silent smile solemn soul sound spirit splendor stalactites stars storm stream sublime syllables tears tempest temple thee things thou thousand thunder tion trees tremble Trochaic Trochee vast verse virtue voice waters waves Westminster Abbey wild wind wonders wooded crater words
Passatges populars
Pàgina 373 - Nor in the embrace of ocean shall exist Thy image. Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim Thy growth, to be resolved to earth again...
Pàgina 45 - There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats ; For I am armed so strong in honesty That they pass by me as the idle wind, Which I respect not.
Pàgina 401 - I ask gentlemen, sir, What means this martial array, if its purpose be not to force us to submission? Can gentlemen assign any other possible motive for it? Has Great Britain any enemy, in this quarter of the world, to call for all this accumulation of navies and armies?
Pàgina 48 - He hath disgraced me, and hindered me of half a million; laughed at my losses, mocked at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated my enemies; and what's his reason .' I am a jew : Hath not a jew eyes...
Pàgina 373 - She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty; and she glides Into his darker musings with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness ere he is aware. When thoughts Of the last bitter hour come like a blight Over thy spirit, and sad images Of the stern agony, and shroud, and pall, And breathless darkness, and the narrow house...
Pàgina 374 - Or lose thyself in the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound Save his own dashings — yet the dead are there; And millions in those solitudes, since first The flight of years began, have laid them down In their last sleep — the dead there reign alone.
Pàgina 385 - If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union, or to change its republican form, let them stand, undisturbed, as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated, where reason is left free to combat it.
Pàgina 373 - The hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun, - the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between; The venerable woods - rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste, Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man.
Pàgina 385 - And let us reflect, that, having banished from our land that religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled and suffered, we have yet gained little, if we countenance a political intolerance as despotic, as wicked, and capable of as bitter and bloody persecutions. During the throes and convulsions of the ancient world ; during the agonizing spasms of infuriated man, seeking, through blood and slaughter, his long-lost liberty...
Pàgina 74 - Muse, that on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That shepherd...