The American Class-reader: Containing a Series of Lessons in Reading : with Introductory Exercises in Articulation, Inflection, Emphasis, and the Other Essential Elements of Correct Natural Elocution; Designed for Academies and Common SchoolsC. Morse, 1836 - 252 pages |
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... Cæsar . I thought you would not remember me . II . The more ordinary office of emphasis is , to give viva- city or point to a sentiment , and add force to an assertion or an argument : Shall I reward his services with falsehood ? Shall ...
... Cæsar . I thought you would not remember me . II . The more ordinary office of emphasis is , to give viva- city or point to a sentiment , and add force to an assertion or an argument : Shall I reward his services with falsehood ? Shall ...
Page 87
... Cæsar's stalworth ghost . 7 Night is the time to muse : Then from the eye the soul Takes flight , and , with expanding views , Beyond the starry pole , Descries athwart the abyss of night , The dawn of uncreated light , 8 Night is the ...
... Cæsar's stalworth ghost . 7 Night is the time to muse : Then from the eye the soul Takes flight , and , with expanding views , Beyond the starry pole , Descries athwart the abyss of night , The dawn of uncreated light , 8 Night is the ...
Page 196
... Cæsar were in debt . The fellow - laborers of Catiline were in debt : —and 3 I defy you to show me a desperately indebted people any where , who can bear a regular , sober government . I throw the challenge to all who hear me . I say ...
... Cæsar were in debt . The fellow - laborers of Catiline were in debt : —and 3 I defy you to show me a desperately indebted people any where , who can bear a regular , sober government . I throw the challenge to all who hear me . I say ...
Page 205
... Cæsar . - SHAKSPEARE . Brutus . - WHAT means this shouting ? I do fear , the people Choose Cæsar for their king . Cassius.- Ay , do you fear it ? Then must I think you would not have it so . Brutus . I would not , Cassius ; yet I love ...
... Cæsar . - SHAKSPEARE . Brutus . - WHAT means this shouting ? I do fear , the people Choose Cæsar for their king . Cassius.- Ay , do you fear it ? Then must I think you would not have it so . Brutus . I would not , Cassius ; yet I love ...
Page 206
... Cæsar cried , Help me , Cassius , or I sink . I , as Æneas , our great ancestor , Did from the flames of Troy upon his shoulder The old Anchises bear , so , from the waves of Tiber , Did I the tired Cæsar : And this man Is now become a ...
... Cæsar cried , Help me , Cassius , or I sink . I , as Æneas , our great ancestor , Did from the flames of Troy upon his shoulder The old Anchises bear , so , from the waves of Tiber , Did I the tired Cæsar : And this man Is now become a ...
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AMERICAN CLASS-READER animals answer Balclutha beauty behold beneath birds blessed blind blood body Cæsar called circumflex clothes cried David dead death Dorchester Heights earth En-gedi eyes face fall Falstaff father feet gave give grave ground hand happy hath head hear heard heart heaven honor hour Iago Icelandic inflection Israel Jesus king kingdom of Israel leprosy LESSON light live look Lord madam mighty good kind morning mother Naaman nature nest never night o'er Old South church pass pause Pharisees Philistines poor praise pray prayer replied rest Rhadamanthus rising slide Saul Saul rose servants shalt sight smile Socrates soul sound spake speak spirit stood tears tell thine thing thou art thou hast thought tion tree trembling Trochee unto thee voice wind wings words