The Independent First[-sixth] Reader ...A. S. Barnes, 1876 - Readers |
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... period of twenty years , chiefly devoted to elocu- tion and literature . MA09515 Part Second contains one hundred and five selections of surpassing worth , of every variety of style and subject , and specially adapted to illustrate the ...
... period of twenty years , chiefly devoted to elocu- tion and literature . MA09515 Part Second contains one hundred and five selections of surpassing worth , of every variety of style and subject , and specially adapted to illustrate the ...
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... period . The other points used in composition are chiefly of a rhetorical nature . 3. The Time of these pauses is not fixed , but relative . The comma usually indicates the shortest pause ; the semicolon , a pause longer than the comma ...
... period . The other points used in composition are chiefly of a rhetorical nature . 3. The Time of these pauses is not fixed , but relative . The comma usually indicates the shortest pause ; the semicolon , a pause longer than the comma ...
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... period he lectured frequently , and wrote for the press . He first visited Europe for the improve- ment of his health in June , 1833 , where he spent a year . After his return , he published some results of his travels in a volume ...
... period he lectured frequently , and wrote for the press . He first visited Europe for the improve- ment of his health in June , 1833 , where he spent a year . After his return , he published some results of his travels in a volume ...
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... period he earned his first fee - a few guineas - by revising for the press a new cdition of " Paul and Virginia . " In his fifteenth year , after receiving a miscellaneous education , he was placed in the counting - house of a Russian ...
... period he earned his first fee - a few guineas - by revising for the press a new cdition of " Paul and Virginia . " In his fifteenth year , after receiving a miscellaneous education , he was placed in the counting - house of a Russian ...
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... period of four years . In July , 1822 , he was drowned in a storm which he encountered in his yacht on the Gulf of Spezzia . In accordance with his own desire , his body was burned , under the direction of Lord Byron and other friends ...
... period of four years . In July , 1822 , he was drowned in a storm which he encountered in his yacht on the Gulf of Spezzia . In accordance with his own desire , his body was burned , under the direction of Lord Byron and other friends ...
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Page 470 - We in thought will join your throng, Ye that pipe and ye that play, Ye that through your hearts to-day Feel the gladness of the May ! What though the radiance which was once so bright Be now for ever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower...
Page 468 - Behold the Child among his new-born blisses, A six years' darling of a pigmy size! See, where 'mid work of his own hand he lies, Fretted by sallies of his mother's kisses, With light upon him from his father's eyes! See, at his feet, some little plan or chart, Some fragment from his dream of human life, Shaped by himself with newly-learned art; A wedding or a festival, A mourning or a funeral ; And this hath now his heart, And unto this he frames his song: Then will he fit his tongue To dialogues...
Page 467 - Upon the growing Boy, But He beholds the light, and whence it flows, He sees it in his joy; The Youth, who daily farther from the east Must travel, still is Nature's Priest, And by the vision splendid Is on his way attended; At length the Man perceives it die away, And fade into the light of common day.
Page 466 - To me alone there came a thought of grief : A timely utterance gave that thought relief, And I again am strong. The cataracts blow their trumpets from the steep ;No more shall grief of mine the season wrong...
Page 218 - 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 51 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.
Page 432 - And what is so rare as a day in June ? Then, if ever, come perfect days; Then Heaven tries the earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays : Whether we look, or whether we listen, We hear life murmur, or see it glisten ; Every clod feels a stir of might. An instinct within it that reaches and towers, And, groping blindly above it for light, Climbs to a soul in grass and flowers...
Page 219 - 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 291 - Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides. Come, and trip it as you go On the light fantastic toe; And in thy right hand lead with thee The mountain-nymph, sweet Liberty; And if I give thee honour due Mirth, admit me of thy crew, To live with her, and live with thee In unreproved pleasures free...
Page 301 - Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they ? Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since; their shores obey The stranger, slave, or savage; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts: not so thou; Unchangeable save to thy wild waves