McGuffey's New Sixth Eclectic Reader: Exercises in Rhetorical Reading, with Introductory Rules and ExamplesW.B. Smith, 1857 - 448 pages |
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... happy when he gains his own approbation , the fool , when he gains the applause of others . 13. His care was to polish the country by art , as he had protected it by arms . In the following examples the relative emphasis is applied to ...
... happy when he gains his own approbation , the fool , when he gains the applause of others . 13. His care was to polish the country by art , as he had protected it by arms . In the following examples the relative emphasis is applied to ...
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... happy causelessly ' , And swells , not dreaming why ́ , my soul shall know That thou , unseen , art bending o'er me` . 3. Here rests his head upon the lap of earth ́ , A youth to fortune and to fame unknown` ; Fair science frown'd not ...
... happy causelessly ' , And swells , not dreaming why ́ , my soul shall know That thou , unseen , art bending o'er me` . 3. Here rests his head upon the lap of earth ́ , A youth to fortune and to fame unknown` ; Fair science frown'd not ...
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... happy life . XII . THE LONE INDIAN . - MOHAWKS ; a tribe of Indians who formerly lived in the state of New York . 1. FOR many a returning autumn , a lone Indian was seen standing at the consecrated spot we have mentioned ; but , just ...
... happy life . XII . THE LONE INDIAN . - MOHAWKS ; a tribe of Indians who formerly lived in the state of New York . 1. FOR many a returning autumn , a lone Indian was seen standing at the consecrated spot we have mentioned ; but , just ...
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... happy " , Or our deaths glorious in thy just defense . TOMORROW . Tomorrow , didst thou say ? Methought I heard Horatio say , tomorrow : Go to , I will not hear of it ; tomorrow ! ' Tis a sharper , who stakes his penury Against thy ...
... happy " , Or our deaths glorious in thy just defense . TOMORROW . Tomorrow , didst thou say ? Methought I heard Horatio say , tomorrow : Go to , I will not hear of it ; tomorrow ! ' Tis a sharper , who stakes his penury Against thy ...
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... happy , happy elf ! ( But , stop` , first let me kiss away Thou tiny image of myself ! that tear , ) ( My love , he's poking peas into his ear` , ) Thou merry , laughing sprite , With spirits , feather light , Untouch'd by sorrow , and ...
... happy , happy elf ! ( But , stop` , first let me kiss away Thou tiny image of myself ! that tear , ) ( My love , he's poking peas into his ear` , ) Thou merry , laughing sprite , With spirits , feather light , Untouch'd by sorrow , and ...
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Page 254 - Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And, sure, he is an honorable man. I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke, But here I am to speak what I do know.
Page 424 - The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord, And he delighteth in his way ; Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down; For the Lord upholdeth him with his hand.
Page 198 - 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.
Page 198 - His favorite phantom; yet all these shall leave Their mirth and their employments, and shall come, And make their bed with thee. As the long train Of ages glide away, the sons of men, The youth in life's green spring, and he who goes In the full strength of years, matron, and maid...
Page 415 - One touch to her hand, and one word in her ear, When they reached the hall door, and the charger stood near; So light to the croupe the fair lady he swung, So light to the saddle before her he sprung! "She is won! we are gone, over bank, bush, and scaur; They'll have fleet steeds that follow,
Page 354 - Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and. curious volume of forgotten lore — While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. " "Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door — Only this and nothing more.
Page 309 - Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee : for whither thou goest, I will go ; and where thou lodgest I will lodge : thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God: " Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried; the Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.
Page 136 - Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage; Then lend the eye a terrible aspect; Let it pry through the portage of the head Like the brass cannon; let the brow o'erwhelm it As fearfully as doth a galled rock O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean.
Page 253 - Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil, that men do, lives after them ; The good is oft interred with their bones ; So let it be with Caesar.
Page 365 - By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring From the hard hands of peasants their' vile trash By any indirection.