The Fifth Or Elocutionary Reader: In which the Principles of Elocution are Illustrated by Reading Exercises in Connection with the Rules ; Designed for the Use of School and AcademiesPhinney & Company, 1859 - 480 Seiten |
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... thought unnec- essary to add another to the list . The reasons , however , the author would assign in justification of himself , and as an apology to the public for presenting this work , are as follows : 1st . In most of the ...
... thought unnec- essary to add another to the list . The reasons , however , the author would assign in justification of himself , and as an apology to the public for presenting this work , are as follows : 1st . In most of the ...
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... thought it advisable also to give a brief explanation of the change in the use of words , from a literal to a figurative sense , illustrating the same by a few examples , and thus showing how much our language abounds in a figurative ...
... thought it advisable also to give a brief explanation of the change in the use of words , from a literal to a figurative sense , illustrating the same by a few examples , and thus showing how much our language abounds in a figurative ...
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... thought . We may confidently assert , that mental power is generally obtained by hard thinking ; and he alone possesses it , who has been accustomed to bring the power of his understanding to bear with such intensity of heat upon the ...
... thought . We may confidently assert , that mental power is generally obtained by hard thinking ; and he alone possesses it , who has been accustomed to bring the power of his understanding to bear with such intensity of heat upon the ...
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... thought , penetrating into the nature of things , and investigating their relations , reducing chaos to order , and bringing harmony out of confusion . CHAPTER III . SENTENCES . A SENTENCE , says Dr. Webster , is a number of words ...
... thought , penetrating into the nature of things , and investigating their relations , reducing chaos to order , and bringing harmony out of confusion . CHAPTER III . SENTENCES . A SENTENCE , says Dr. Webster , is a number of words ...
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... thoughts and feelings ? 8. Do you rejoice in truth and resolve to maintain it ? QUESTIONS . Give examples of a single condition . Of successive conditions What is an interrogative sentence ? What is the note ? Give examples of direct ...
... thoughts and feelings ? 8. Do you rejoice in truth and resolve to maintain it ? QUESTIONS . Give examples of a single condition . Of successive conditions What is an interrogative sentence ? What is the note ? Give examples of direct ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Æneid Amphibrach anapestic ancient ancient Greece arms beauty behold born bright brother Cæsar called Cato character circumflex clauses clouds commence dactylic darkness death Demosthenes denote direct question earth elementary sounds emotions emphasis emphatic emphatic series epic poetry eternal EXERCISE expressed falling inflection father feelings feet genius Give an example glory grave hand happy hast hath head heard heart heaven hills honor hope human iambic Julius Cæsar kind labor land language LESSON liberty light live look Lord Metonymy Micipsa mighty mind mountain nature never night NOTE o'er ocean open vowel passion pause poetry pronounce pupil reading require the falling rising inflection Roman Rome rule Saladin sentence sentiment Socrates soul speak spirit spondee stars stress sub-vocals sublime Synecdoche thee thou thought tion trochaic trochee utterance verse Virgil virtue voice waves words Xerxes youth
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 188 - By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash By any indirection ! I did send To you for gold to pay my legions, Which you denied me: Was that done like Cassius?
Seite 326 - Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth, when every sport could please, How often have I loitered o'er thy green, Where humble happiness endeared each scene...
Seite 330 - I was here airing myself on the tops of the mountains, I fell into a profound contemplation on the vanity of human life ; and passing from one thought to another, " Surely," said I, " man is but a shadow, and life a dream.
Seite 273 - THE groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the roof above them — ere he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems ; in the darkling wood, Amid the cool and silence, he knelt down, And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication.
Seite 263 - And, sir, where American liberty raised its first voice; and where its youth was nurtured and sustained, there it still lives, in the strength of its manhood and full of its original spirit. If discord and disunion shall wound...
Seite 230 - BRIGHTEST and best of the sons of the morning, Dawn on our darkness and lend us thine aid; Star of the east, the horizon adorning, Guide where our infant Redeemer is laid.
Seite 469 - Pale Hecate's offerings : and wither'd murder, Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf, Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace, With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost. Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear Thy very stones prate of my where-about, And take the present horror from the time, Which now suits with it.
Seite 89 - There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
Seite 188 - For I can raise no money by vile means: By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring From the hard hands of peasants their' vile trash By any indirection.
Seite 469 - Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.