The Grammar School Reader: Containing the Essential Principles of Elocution and a Series of Exercises in Reading : Designed for Classes in Grammar SchoolSanborn & Carter, 1850 - 360 pages |
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... Brunello , the elder of them , who had himself acquired some reputation in his studies , QUESTIONS . What is antithetic emphasis ? What is the rule for antithetic emphasis ↑ Read the first example . What words are emphatic by contrast ...
... Brunello , the elder of them , who had himself acquired some reputation in his studies , QUESTIONS . What is antithetic emphasis ? What is the rule for antithetic emphasis ↑ Read the first example . What words are emphatic by contrast ...
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... Brunello . 6. Lorenzo did not , however , content himself with words , but entered with his whole soul into the career of improvement . He was first and last of all the scholars in the designing - room , and devoted to practice , at ...
... Brunello . 6. Lorenzo did not , however , content himself with words , but entered with his whole soul into the career of improvement . He was first and last of all the scholars in the designing - room , and devoted to practice , at ...
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... Brunello struggled a while to contest with him , but at length gave up the point , and consoled him- self , under his inferiority , by ill - natured sarcasm and petulant criticism . Lorenzo worked away in silence , and it was long ...
... Brunello struggled a while to contest with him , but at length gave up the point , and consoled him- self , under his inferiority , by ill - natured sarcasm and petulant criticism . Lorenzo worked away in silence , and it was long ...
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... Brunello , in a corner , was enjoying this distress . But Lorenzo was little less affected than Guidotto himself . 15. " Indeed , gentlemen , " said he , " this is not Guidotto's work . I saw it when only half finished , and it was a ...
... Brunello , in a corner , was enjoying this distress . But Lorenzo was little less affected than Guidotto himself . 15. " Indeed , gentlemen , " said he , " this is not Guidotto's work . I saw it when only half finished , and it was a ...
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Page 335 - Strike — till the last armed foe expires; Strike — for your altars and your fires; Strike — for the green graves of your sires, God — and your native land!
Page 165 - customed hill, Along the heath and near his favourite tree; Another came; nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he : The next with dirges due in sad array Slow through the church-way path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
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Page 334 - An hour passed on — the Turk awoke : That bright dream was his last ; . He woke — to hear his sentries shriek, " To arms ! they come ! the Greek ! the Greek...
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