The Fifth Reader of the School and Family SeriesHarper & Brothers, Franklin Square, New York., 1863 - 527 pages |
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... literature of its own ; each has its peculiar words , and its forms of expression , as well as its principles , with which not only every scholar , but every general reader should be familiar , but none of which would be 377 PEN17.
... literature of its own ; each has its peculiar words , and its forms of expression , as well as its principles , with which not only every scholar , but every general reader should be familiar , but none of which would be 377 PEN17.
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... Expression .. Expression of the Countenance after Death . . E. Johnson . 104 .. Adapted . 105 Spenser ; Adapted . 107 ..SIR CHARLES BELL . 111 . ECLECTIC REVIEW . 112 ..London Morning Chronicle . 116 Adapted . 117 Byron , 119 XVI ...
... Expression .. Expression of the Countenance after Death . . E. Johnson . 104 .. Adapted . 105 Spenser ; Adapted . 107 ..SIR CHARLES BELL . 111 . ECLECTIC REVIEW . 112 ..London Morning Chronicle . 116 Adapted . 117 Byron , 119 XVI ...
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... Expression in Civil or Public Architecture .. VII . Of Expression in Domestic Architecture .. VIII . The Poetry of Cottage Architecture .. IX . The Shepherd's Cottage .. X. Of Truthfulness in Architecture . XI . Monuments of the Burial ...
... Expression in Civil or Public Architecture .. VII . Of Expression in Domestic Architecture .. VIII . The Poetry of Cottage Architecture .. IX . The Shepherd's Cottage .. X. Of Truthfulness in Architecture . XI . Monuments of the Burial ...
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... Expressions of tender emotion , such as grief , pity , kindness , gentle joy , a gentle reproof , gentle appeal , gentle entreaty or expostulation , etc. , commonly require a gentle rising inflection . EXAMPLES . Mary ' ! Mary ' ! do ...
... Expressions of tender emotion , such as grief , pity , kindness , gentle joy , a gentle reproof , gentle appeal , gentle entreaty or expostulation , etc. , commonly require a gentle rising inflection . EXAMPLES . Mary ' ! Mary ' ! do ...
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... expressions , sarcasm , and irony , and sentences implying a comparison or contrast that is not fully expressed , often require a union of the two inflections on the same syllable . EXPLANATION . - In addition to the rising and falling ...
... expressions , sarcasm , and irony , and sentences implying a comparison or contrast that is not fully expressed , often require a union of the two inflections on the same syllable . EXPLANATION . - In addition to the rising and falling ...
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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 490 - 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 !" Quoth the Raven,
Page 314 - Earth and her waters, and the depths of air — Comes a still voice — Yet a few days, and thee The all-beholding sun shall see no more In all his course ; nor yet in the cold ground, Where thy pale form was laid with many tears, Nor in the embrace of ocean, shall exist Thy image.
Page 534 - When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept; Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious, And Brutus is an honourable man. You all did see that on the Lupercal I thrice presented him a kingly crown, Which he did thrice refuse. Was this ambition? Yet Brutus says he was ambitious, And, sure, he is an honourable man. I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke, But here I am to speak what I do know.
Page 42 - The bell strikes one. We take no note of time, But from its loss. To give it then a tongue, Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours: Where are they? With the years beyond the Flood.
Page 533 - As Caesar loved me, I weep for him; as he was fortunate, I rejoice at it; as he was valiant, I honour him ; but, as he was ambitious, I slew him.
Page 491 - Startled at the stillness broken by reply so aptly spoken, "Doubtless," said I, "what it utters is its only stock and store, Caught from some unhappy master whom unmerciful disaster Followed fast and followed faster till his songs one burden bore: Till the dirges of his hope that melancholy burden bore Of 'Never— nevermore.
Page 531 - It must be so — Plato, thou reasonest well ; Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought ? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? Tis the divinity that stirs within us ; 'Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man...
Page 491 - And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door; And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming, . And the lamp-light o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor: And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor Shall be lifted — nevermore...
Page 489 - 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. "T is some visitor,' I muttered, 'tapping at my chamber door Only this and nothing more.