The Franklin Sixth Reader and Speaker: Consisting of Extracts in Prose and Verse, with Biographical and Critical Notices of the AuthorsTaintor Brothers, Merrill, & Company, 1874 - 444 pages |
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... wave , weave , well , wind , wind , willow . Many poets have successfully exerted their skill in selecting words the sound of which fitly expresses the loud or soft sounds they wish to describe , and the strength or weakness they wish ...
... wave , weave , well , wind , wind , willow . Many poets have successfully exerted their skill in selecting words the sound of which fitly expresses the loud or soft sounds they wish to describe , and the strength or weakness they wish ...
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... earth and air With thy voice is loud , As , when night is bare , From one lonely cloud The moon rains out her beams and heaven is overflowed ! ― The hoarse wave murmured low : The distant surges roared 24 THE SIXTH READER . PITCH YOUTH.
... earth and air With thy voice is loud , As , when night is bare , From one lonely cloud The moon rains out her beams and heaven is overflowed ! ― The hoarse wave murmured low : The distant surges roared 24 THE SIXTH READER . PITCH YOUTH.
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... wave murmured low : The distant surges roared , And o'er the sea , in tones of woe , A deep response was poured . In Nature , high sounds are usually produced by rapid mo- tions also ; low , by relatively slow vibrations . following ...
... wave murmured low : The distant surges roared , And o'er the sea , in tones of woe , A deep response was poured . In Nature , high sounds are usually produced by rapid mo- tions also ; low , by relatively slow vibrations . following ...
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... waves . Byron forcibly contrasts the Italian and the English in the following stanza : — I love the language , that soft bastard Latin , Which melts like kisses in a female mouth , And sounds as if it should be writ on satin , With ...
... waves . Byron forcibly contrasts the Italian and the English in the following stanza : — I love the language , that soft bastard Latin , Which melts like kisses in a female mouth , And sounds as if it should be writ on satin , With ...
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... wave ; has brought the ends of the earth in communion ; has estab- lished an interchange of blessings , pouring into the sterile regions of the north all the luxuries of the south ; diffused the light of knowledge and the charities of ...
... wave ; has brought the ends of the earth in communion ; has estab- lished an interchange of blessings , pouring into the sterile regions of the north all the luxuries of the south ; diffused the light of knowledge and the charities of ...
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