Spoken English: A Method of Improving Speech and Reading by Studying Voice Conditions and Modulations in Union with Their Causes in Thinking and FeelingExpression Company, 1913 - 320 pages |
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Page 69
... Mother , am I. Shakespeare Tongues , tongues for my joy , for my joy ! more tongues ! - Oh , thanks to the thrush on the tree , To the sky , and to all earth's blooms and songs ! They utter the heart in me . David Atwood Wasson SEASHORE ...
... Mother , am I. Shakespeare Tongues , tongues for my joy , for my joy ! more tongues ! - Oh , thanks to the thrush on the tree , To the sky , and to all earth's blooms and songs ! They utter the heart in me . David Atwood Wasson SEASHORE ...
Page 80
... mother from the kitchen - door is calling with a will , " Polly ! - Polly ! The cows are in the corn ! -- Oh , where ' s Polly ? " From all the misty morning air there comes a summer sound , A murmur as of waters , from skies and trees ...
... mother from the kitchen - door is calling with a will , " Polly ! - Polly ! The cows are in the corn ! -- Oh , where ' s Polly ? " From all the misty morning air there comes a summer sound , A murmur as of waters , from skies and trees ...
Page 98
... mother of the children . You should have seen her dumb terror , her face as white as chalk , her mouth half open , her eyes fixed and staring . But the youngest boy nodded ever so joyfully and shouted at the top of his voice and said ...
... mother of the children . You should have seen her dumb terror , her face as white as chalk , her mouth half open , her eyes fixed and staring . But the youngest boy nodded ever so joyfully and shouted at the top of his voice and said ...
Page 106
... mother always smiles to see , When Mary reads to Bob and me . Hannah G. Fernald Right phrasing is one of the chief characteristics of good reading . Phrasing is the control of words by our attention , the speaking of the idea for which ...
... mother always smiles to see , When Mary reads to Bob and me . Hannah G. Fernald Right phrasing is one of the chief characteristics of good reading . Phrasing is the control of words by our attention , the speaking of the idea for which ...
Page 108
... mother thrush had spent a pleasant winter with a fine brood of young thrushes . But as the days began to grow warmer , a strange restlessness warned them that it was time to take their flight to a more northern country and a less sunny ...
... mother thrush had spent a pleasant winter with a fine brood of young thrushes . But as the days began to grow warmer , a strange restlessness warned them that it was time to take their flight to a more northern country and a less sunny ...
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Page 96 - Man is his own star; and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light, all influence, all fate; Nothing to him falls early or too late. Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.
Page 102 - O May I Join The Choir Invisible! O may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence...
Page 194 - Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God: and his flesh came again like unto the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.
Page 263 - In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born, across the sea, With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me: As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, While God is marching on.
Page 143 - If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions : I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
Page 171 - You friendly Earth, how far do you go, With the wheat-fields that nod and the rivers that flow, With cities and gardens, and cliffs and isles, And people upon you for thousands of miles?
Page 82 - Sail on! Sail on! Sail on! and on!'" They sailed and sailed, as winds might blow, Until at last the blanched mate said: "Why, now not even God would know Should I and all my men fall dead. These very winds forget their way, For God from these dread seas is gone. Now speak, brave Adm'r'l; speak and say — " He said: "Sail on! Sail on! and on!
Page 254 - Storm'd at with shot and shell, Boldly they rode and well, Into the jaws of Death, Into the mouth of Hell, Rode the six hundred. Flashed all their sabres bare, Flashed as they turned in air, Sab'ring the gunners there...
Page 262 - Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword: His truth is marching on.
Page 312 - But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up steadfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and. Jesus standing on the right hand of God...