The Fifth Reader of the School and Family SeriesHarper & Brothers, 1861 - 538 pages |
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... objects in a reading - book for schools , that the present volume is submitted to them . What better reading - lessons could be given than the numerous poetical extracts which are used to illustrate the lessons in Bor- ANY , where we ...
... objects in a reading - book for schools , that the present volume is submitted to them . What better reading - lessons could be given than the numerous poetical extracts which are used to illustrate the lessons in Bor- ANY , where we ...
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... objects of interest and instruction to pupils , to which we would more particularly call atten- tion ; for not only does an accurate and striking illustration of an object often give a more correct idea of it than pages of description ...
... objects of interest and instruction to pupils , to which we would more particularly call atten- tion ; for not only does an accurate and striking illustration of an object often give a more correct idea of it than pages of description ...
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... object could be accomplished . Hav- ing in mind this view of the apostle's meaning , nature directed him how to express it . Another divine , not taking the same view of the passage , would read these questions , as I have usually heard ...
... object could be accomplished . Hav- ing in mind this view of the apostle's meaning , nature directed him how to express it . Another divine , not taking the same view of the passage , would read these questions , as I have usually heard ...
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... objects by contrast or contraries ( a figure of speech called antithesis ) , we naturally express the first clause of the contrast in a little higher tone of voice than we apply to the latter , with a prolonged pause between them , as ...
... objects by contrast or contraries ( a figure of speech called antithesis ) , we naturally express the first clause of the contrast in a little higher tone of voice than we apply to the latter , with a prolonged pause between them , as ...
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... objects that are near at hand , but is not able to discern things at a distance . Discretion ' , the more it is discovered , gives a greater authority to the person who pos- sesses it : cùnning ' , when it is once detected , loses its ...
... objects that are near at hand , but is not able to discern things at a distance . Discretion ' , the more it is discovered , gives a greater authority to the person who pos- sesses it : cùnning ' , when it is once detected , loses its ...
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Page 275 - I will be bound to pay it ten times o'er, On forfeit of my hands, my head, my heart : If this will not suffice, it must appear That malice bears down truth. And I beseech you, Wrest once the law to your authority : To do a great right do a little wrong ; And curb this cruel devil of his will.
Page 488 - Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling, By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore, "Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou," I said, "art sure no craven, Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore — Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!
Page 82 - You have done that you should be sorry for. There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats; For I am arm'd so strong in honesty, That they pass by me as the idle wind Which I respect not.
Page 534 - If you have tears, prepare to shed them now. You all do know this mantle : I remember The first time ever Caesar put it on : 'Twas on a summer's evening, in his tent; That day he overcame the " Nervii: Look, in this place ran Cassius...
Page 220 - In the silence of the night, How we shiver with affright At the melancholy menace of their tone! For every sound that floats From the rust within their throats Is a groan. And the people - ah, the people They that dwell up in the steeple...
Page 531 - Here comes his body, mourned by Mark Antony ; who, though he had no hand in his death, shall receive the benefit of his dying, a place in the commonwealth...
Page 219 - Oh, from out the sounding cells, What a gush of euphony voluminously wells! How it swells! How it dwells On the future!
Page 82 - All this! ay, more: fret till your proud heart break; Go show your slaves how choleric you are, And make your bondmen tremble. Must I budge? Must I observe you? must I stand and crouch Under your testy humour? By the gods, You shall digest the venom of your spleen, Though it do split you; for, from this day forth, I'll use you for my mirth, yea, for my laughter, When you are waspish.
Page 486 - Nature never did betray The heart that loved her; 'tis her privilege, Through all the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy; for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb Our cheerful faith, that all which we behold Is...
Page 487 - 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.