The Progressive Course in Reading: book, part 1-2. Information, literature, oral expressionButler, Sheldon, 1900 - Readers (Elementary) |
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... Antony to the Roman Populace 158 164 170 Mary Russell Mitford 178 Shakespeare 181 • XXXIV . Plea for Suffering Greece XXXV . On Expunging the Senate Journal . XXXVI . Supposed Speech of John Adams . Shakespeare 186 Henry Clay John C ...
... Antony to the Roman Populace 158 164 170 Mary Russell Mitford 178 Shakespeare 181 • XXXIV . Plea for Suffering Greece XXXV . On Expunging the Senate Journal . XXXVI . Supposed Speech of John Adams . Shakespeare 186 Henry Clay John C ...
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... Antony defeated the republicans under Brutus and Cassius . III . Suggestions on expressive reading : To read this chapter well , the pupil must go on till he feels the heat of the battle and hears its crash and thunder . It can't be ...
... Antony defeated the republicans under Brutus and Cassius . III . Suggestions on expressive reading : To read this chapter well , the pupil must go on till he feels the heat of the battle and hears its crash and thunder . It can't be ...
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... , Or open rapine , or protected murder , Cries out against them . 3 . 4 . An honest man , my neighbor 178 SPECIMENS OF FORENSIC ELOQUENCE Rienzi's Address Brutus to the Roman Populace Antony to the Roman Populace 158 Mary Russell Mitford.
... , Or open rapine , or protected murder , Cries out against them . 3 . 4 . An honest man , my neighbor 178 SPECIMENS OF FORENSIC ELOQUENCE Rienzi's Address Brutus to the Roman Populace Antony to the Roman Populace 158 Mary Russell Mitford.
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... Antony made to the same audience after Cæsar's body had been borne into the forum . [ Scene : the Forum in Rome ; BRUTUS , CASSIUS , and a throng of Citizens enter . ] Citizens . We will be satisfied ; let us be satisfied . Brutus ...
... Antony made to the same audience after Cæsar's body had been borne into the forum . [ Scene : the Forum in Rome ; BRUTUS , CASSIUS , and a throng of Citizens enter . ] Citizens . We will be satisfied ; let us be satisfied . Brutus ...
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... death . Here comes his body , mourned by Mark Antony : who , though he had no hand in his death , shall receive the benefit of his dy- ing , a place in the commonwealth ; as which of you shall not ? With this I depart , that , as 183.
... death . Here comes his body , mourned by Mark Antony : who , though he had no hand in his death , shall receive the benefit of his dy- ing , a place in the commonwealth ; as which of you shall not ? With this I depart , that , as 183.
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Page 16 - THE Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.
Page 79 - But our love it was stronger by far than the love Of those who were older than we — Of many far wiser than we — And neither the angels in heaven above, Nor the demons down under the sea, Can ever dissever my soul from the soul Of the beautiful Annabel Lee...
Page 79 - A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling My beautiful ANNABEL LEE ; So that her highborn kinsman came And bore her away from me, To shut her up in a sepulchre In this kingdom by the sea.
Page 199 - Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and my heart to this vote.
Page 77 - And the eyes of the sleepers waxed deadly and chill, And their hearts but once heaved, and forever grew still! And there lay the steed with his nostril all wide, But through it there rolled not the breath of his pride : And the foam of his gasping lay white on the turf, And cold as the spray of the rock-beating surf.
Page 186 - Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones ; So let it be with Caesar.
Page 217 - In the Spring a fuller crimson comes upon the Robin's breast ; In the Spring the wanton lapwing gets himself another crest ; In the Spring a livelier iris changes on the burnished dove ; In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.
Page 238 - New occasions teach new duties : Time makes ancient good uncouth ; They must upward still, and onward, who would keep abreast of Truth ; Lo, before us gleam her camp-fires ! we ourselves must Pilgrims be, Launch our Mayflower, and steer boldly through the desperate winter sea. Nor attempt the Future's portal with the Past's blood-rusted key.
Page 78 - It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea, That a maiden there lived whom you may know By the name of Annabel Lee ; And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me.
Page 86 - THE muffled drum's sad roll has beat The soldier's last tattoo ; No more on Life's parade shall meet That brave and fallen few. On Fame's eternal camping ground Their silent tents are spread, And Glory guards, with solemn round, The bivouac of the dead.