Sanders' Union Fifth Reader: Embracing a Full Exposition of the Principles of Rhetorical Reading : with Numerous Exercises for Practice, Both in Prose and Poetry, from the Best Writers, and with Literary and Biographical Notes, for the Higher Classes in Schools, Academies, EtcIvison, Phinney, Blakeman & Company, 1870 - 480 pages |
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... whole country . The principles of Elocution , which have been explained and illustrated by examples in the fore part of the Union Fourth and Sixth Readers , and which have been tested by actual ex- periment in the schoolroom by ...
... whole country . The principles of Elocution , which have been explained and illustrated by examples in the fore part of the Union Fourth and Sixth Readers , and which have been tested by actual ex- periment in the schoolroom by ...
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... WHOLE NOTHING BUT OUR COUNTRY . COUNTRY , and 2. Thou Child of Joy ! SHOUT round me : let me HEAR thy shouts , thou happy Shepherd Boy ! 3 . Freedom calls you ! quick , be ready , Think of what your sires have done ; Onward , ONWARD ...
... WHOLE NOTHING BUT OUR COUNTRY . COUNTRY , and 2. Thou Child of Joy ! SHOUT round me : let me HEAR thy shouts , thou happy Shepherd Boy ! 3 . Freedom calls you ! quick , be ready , Think of what your sires have done ; Onward , ONWARD ...
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... whole face of the creation fresh and gay , that I lately walked in a beautiful flower garden , and , at once , regaled the senses and indulged the fancy . HERVEY . 2 . 66 I love to live , " said a prattling boy , As he gayly played with ...
... whole face of the creation fresh and gay , that I lately walked in a beautiful flower garden , and , at once , regaled the senses and indulged the fancy . HERVEY . 2 . 66 I love to live , " said a prattling boy , As he gayly played with ...
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... whole city , a whole continent of cities , all the cities of the globe , nay , the very globe itself , in so far as man has changed it , but the work of that giant hand , with which the human race , acting as one mighty man , has ...
... whole city , a whole continent of cities , all the cities of the globe , nay , the very globe itself , in so far as man has changed it , but the work of that giant hand , with which the human race , acting as one mighty man , has ...
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... whole in a frenzy of resolution . You accompany them to the field . They halt . An Aid - de - camp2 passes to or from the com- manding General . The clear voices of the officers ring along the line in tones of passionate eloquence ...
... whole in a frenzy of resolution . You accompany them to the field . They halt . An Aid - de - camp2 passes to or from the com- manding General . The clear voices of the officers ring along the line in tones of passionate eloquence ...
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Angel beautiful beneath Bennie Better than gold Blessed blood Blossom born bosom breath bright cheer clouds dark dark pages dead death deep dim lantern dreams eagle earnest earth eternal father feel feet flowers flukes forever gaze genius glory grave Hafed hand happiness head heart Heaven honor hope hour human immortal Indian inflection JOHN TODD labor LESSON Light at Home live look lyre memory mighty mind moon morning MORPHOSIS Mount Tabor mountain nature never night o'er passed Paul Denton prangly prayer rolling river round run on ice SANDERS seemed shore siege of Vicksburg sleep smile sorrow soul sound spirit stars storm sweet tears tempest thee things thou thought thousand tion toil tone top-mast trees turned virtue voice watch waves whale wild wind wonderful words young youth
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Page 349 - Hast thou given the horse strength ? Hast thou clothed his neck with thunder ? Canst 'thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? The glory of his nostrils is terrible. He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength : He goeth on to meet the armed men. He mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted ; Neither turneth he back from the sword.
Page 475 - When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last time, the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood...
Page 444 - I am the daughter of earth and water, And the nursling of the sky; I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores ; I change, but I cannot die. For after the rain when, with never a stain, The pavilion of heaven is bare, And the winds and sunbeams with their convex gleams, Build up the blue dome of air...
Page 475 - Liberty first and Union afterward"; but everywhere, spread all over in characters of living light, blazing on all its ample folds, as they float over the sea and over the land, and in every wind under the whole heavens, that other . sentiment, dear to every true American heart, — LIBERTY AND UNION, NOW AND FOREVER, ONE AND INSEPARABLE ! THE WRECK CHARLES DICKENS This very dramatic description is from "David Copperfield.
Page 303 - Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season? Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing. Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods.
Page 453 - O Lord, how manifold are thy works ! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches. So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts.
Page 26 - Before him went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth at his feet. He stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow: his ways are everlasting.
Page 32 - Ye pine-groves, with your soft and soul-like sounds ! And they too have a voice, yon piles of snow, And in their perilous fall shall thunder, God!
Page 429 - Know, all the good that individuals find, Or God and Nature meant to mere mankind, Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words — health, peace, and competence.
Page 347 - Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind As man's ingratitude ; Thy tooth is not so keen, Because thou art not seen, Although thy breath be rude.