National Fourth Reader: Containing a Simple, Comprehensive and Practical Treatise on Elocution [etc.]A.S. Barnes & Company, 1870 |
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... hand thus , but use all gently ; for in the very torrent , tempest , and ( as I may say ) WHIRLWIND of your passion , you must acquire and begět a temperance that will give it smoothness . 23. O , now you weep ; and I perceive you feel ...
... hand thus , but use all gently ; for in the very torrent , tempest , and ( as I may say ) WHIRLWIND of your passion , you must acquire and begět a temperance that will give it smoothness . 23. O , now you weep ; and I perceive you feel ...
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... hands lean ing on his horse's neck , moved feebly out of the battle . 4. The rivulet sends forth glad sounds , and , tripping o'er its bed of pebbly sands , or leaping down the rocks , seems with contin- uous laughter to rejoice in its ...
... hands lean ing on his horse's neck , moved feebly out of the battle . 4. The rivulet sends forth glad sounds , and , tripping o'er its bed of pebbly sands , or leaping down the rocks , seems with contin- uous laughter to rejoice in its ...
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... hand , or too much prolonged on the other . Thus , a full opening , a gradual decrease , and a delicate termi- nation , are requisite to the perfect formation of a slide . 2. There are three inflections or slides of the voice : the ...
... hand , or too much prolonged on the other . Thus , a full opening , a gradual decrease , and a delicate termi- nation , are requisite to the perfect formation of a slide . 2. There are three inflections or slides of the voice : the ...
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... hand , and ear and eye , Are all with ardor ' straining high- How in his heart will spring 3 A feeling whose mysterious thrall * Is stronger , sweeter far than all ! And on its silènt wing , How , with the clouds , he'll float away , As ...
... hand , and ear and eye , Are all with ardor ' straining high- How in his heart will spring 3 A feeling whose mysterious thrall * Is stronger , sweeter far than all ! And on its silènt wing , How , with the clouds , he'll float away , As ...
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... hand to do , but no work to be done ; talents unexercised , capacities undeveloped , ' a hu- man life thrown away - wasted as water poured forth in the desert . Birds and flowers , ye are gods to such a mockery of life ! 9 10 3. Who can ...
... hand to do , but no work to be done ; talents unexercised , capacities undeveloped , ' a hu- man life thrown away - wasted as water poured forth in the desert . Birds and flowers , ye are gods to such a mockery of life ! 9 10 3. Who can ...
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Page 396 - Alas! alas! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once ; And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy : How would you be, If he, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are? O, think on that; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made 4.
Page 340 - I saw a smith stand with his hammer, thus, The whilst his iron did on the anvil cool, With open mouth swallowing a tailor's news ; Who, with his shears and measure in his hand, Standing on slippers, (which his nimble haste Had falsely thrust upon contrary feet) Told of a many thousand warlike French, That were embattailed and rank'd in Kent.
Page 248 - And now, when comes the calm mild day, as still such days will come, To call the squirrel and the bee from out their winter home; When the sound of dropping nuts is heard, though all the trees are still, And twinkle in the smoky light the waters of the rill, The south wind searches for the flowers whose fragrance late he bore, And sighs to find them in the wood and by the stream no more.
Page 403 - And earthly power doth then show likest God's When mercy seasons justice. Therefore, Jew, Though justice be thy plea, consider this, That, in the course of justice, none of us Should see salvation : we do pray for mercy ; And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy. I have spoke thus much To mitigate the justice of thy plea ; Which if thou follow, this strict court of Venice Must needs give sentence 'gainst the merchant there. Shy. My deeds upon my head ! I crave the law,...
Page 247 - THE melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere. Heaped in the hollows of the grove, the autumn leaves lie dead; They rustle to the eddying gust, and to the rabbit's tread; The robin and the wren are flown, and from the shrubs the jay, And from the wood-top calls the crow through all the gloomy day. Where are the flowers, the fair young flowers, that lately sprang and stood In brighter light and softer airs, a beauteous sisterhood?
Page 394 - Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon in front of them Volleyed and thundered; Stormed at with shot and shell, Boldly they rode and well, Into the jaws of Death, Into the mouth of Hell Rode the six hundred.
Page 403 - Tis mightiest in the mightiest ; It becomes The throned monarch better than his crown : His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings ; But mercy is above this sceptred sway, It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God's, When mercy seasons justice.
Page 379 - Little of all we value here Wakes on the morn of its hundredth year Without both feeling and looking queer. In fact, there's nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, but a tree and truth.
Page 83 - And if I should live to be The last leaf upon the tree • In the spring, Let them smile, as I do now, At the old forsaken bough Where I cling.
Page 349 - Ah, gentlemen ! that was a dreadful mistake. Such a secret can be safe nowhere. The whole creation of God has neither nook nor corner where the guilty can bestow it, and say it is safe.