The Fifth Reader of the School and Family SeriesHarper & Brothers, Franklin Square, New York., 1863 - 527 pages |
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... Speaking and Doing V. Resistance to British Oppression . VI . The American Indians .. PART V. .PATRICK HENRY . 222 ..SPRAGUE . 222 ICHTHYOLOGY , OR THE NATURAL HISTORY OF FISHES . I. Nature of the Study . .Spenser ; Milton . Adapted ...
... Speaking and Doing V. Resistance to British Oppression . VI . The American Indians .. PART V. .PATRICK HENRY . 222 ..SPRAGUE . 222 ICHTHYOLOGY , OR THE NATURAL HISTORY OF FISHES . I. Nature of the Study . .Spenser ; Milton . Adapted ...
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... Speak clearly , if you speak at all ; Carve every word before you let it fall ; Don't , like a lecturer or dramatic star , Try over hard to roll the British R ; Do put your accents in the proper spot ; Don't let me beg you - don't say ...
... Speak clearly , if you speak at all ; Carve every word before you let it fall ; Don't , like a lecturer or dramatic star , Try over hard to roll the British R ; Do put your accents in the proper spot ; Don't let me beg you - don't say ...
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... speak , and did not fully under- stand him , and then ask some person to repeat what he said , I give my question the rising inflection , thus , " What did he say ' ? " ( Remark.— Perhaps the true reason of the rising inflection here on ...
... speak , and did not fully under- stand him , and then ask some person to repeat what he said , I give my question the rising inflection , thus , " What did he say ' ? " ( Remark.— Perhaps the true reason of the rising inflection here on ...
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... speaking ? -a kind of prolonged horizontal suspension of the voice ' ? Bernardo . There is , indeed , such a pause - a rhetorical pause proper it should be called ; and a judicious use of it is , next to a correct use of the inflections ...
... speaking ? -a kind of prolonged horizontal suspension of the voice ' ? Bernardo . There is , indeed , such a pause - a rhetorical pause proper it should be called ; and a judicious use of it is , next to a correct use of the inflections ...
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... speaking of Pompey . In order to show the contrasted parts distinctly , it is desirable to make a longer pause between them than if there were no opposition in the sense . Thus : He waged more wars than others had read ' ; conquered ...
... speaking of Pompey . In order to show the contrasted parts distinctly , it is desirable to make a longer pause between them than if there were no opposition in the sense . Thus : He waged more wars than others had read ' ; conquered ...
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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.