Analytical Fifth Reader: Containing an Introductory Article on the General Principles of Elocution, with a Thorough Method of Analysis, Intended to Develop the Pupil's Appreciation of the Thought and Emotion, a Critical Phonic Analysis of English Words, and Large Number of New and Valuable Selections for Exercises in Reading and Elocution, Supplemented by Numerous Historical, Biographical, and Explanatory NotesTaintor & Company, 1867 - 360 Seiten |
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... stanza ? What is meant by " gushing joy " ? Explain the first two lines of the fourth stanza . Are the thoughts in this selection highly poetical ? Are there any faults in the meter ? Are the words in it mostly long or short ? What ...
... stanza ? What is meant by " gushing joy " ? Explain the first two lines of the fourth stanza . Are the thoughts in this selection highly poetical ? Are there any faults in the meter ? Are the words in it mostly long or short ? What ...
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... Stanza . · What is meant by the hill's being " transfigured ? " What is the " silver flood " alluded to ? Why so called ? Whose " blown snows " ? What kind of white is " dead white " ? How many exceptions to the dead white are mentioned ...
... Stanza . · What is meant by the hill's being " transfigured ? " What is the " silver flood " alluded to ? Why so called ? Whose " blown snows " ? What kind of white is " dead white " ? How many exceptions to the dead white are mentioned ...
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... Stanza . Whose voices are referred to here ? What is the effect of the enumeration from the fifth line to the end of the stanza ? Explain the last three lines . Why is the floor said to be " conscious " ? Give the etymology and meaning ...
... Stanza . Whose voices are referred to here ? What is the effect of the enumeration from the fifth line to the end of the stanza ? Explain the last three lines . Why is the floor said to be " conscious " ? Give the etymology and meaning ...
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... Stanza . Why should the first line begin with " and " ? What is the strange story " referred to ? Where was Thebes ? What is said of it in the Note ? To whom are these words addressed ? Why is Thebes spoken of ? What is said , in the ...
... Stanza . Why should the first line begin with " and " ? What is the strange story " referred to ? Where was Thebes ? What is said of it in the Note ? To whom are these words addressed ? Why is Thebes spoken of ? What is said , in the ...
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... stanza ? What inflection upon dummy ? [ Let great care be taken to deter- mine the most natural way of saying what is contained in this stanza , as well as every other . In this way let the em- phasis and inflection be determined ...
... stanza ? What inflection upon dummy ? [ Let great care be taken to deter- mine the most natural way of saying what is contained in this stanza , as well as every other . In this way let the em- phasis and inflection be determined ...
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arms beautiful beneath blessed blue born breath brow called character Chat Moss circumflex cloud cold consonant Cricket Cromwell dark dead death died earth English etymology and meaning eyes fall feel fire Fire-worshiper flowers force Give the etymology glory hand hath hear heard heart heaven Henry of Navarre HENRY WARD BEECHER hero's heart Hubert inflection J. G. HOLLAND kettle king land leaves LESSON light living look Lord Lord Byron Lord Macaulay meant mind morning mother mountain never night non-sonant o'er passed pauses poems poet poetry poor Pronounce replied Represent require rising Roman mythology Scrooge SELECTION sleep smile snow sonant soul sound speak Stanza sweet syllable T. B. ALDRICH tears tell thee thing thou thought tion tones tree utterance voice vowel Weller words writing young
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Seite 253 - A hurry of hoofs in a village street, A shape in the moonlight, a bulk in the dark, And beneath, from the pebbles, in passing a spark Struck out by a steed flying fearless and fleet ; That was all ; and yet, through the gloom and the light The fate of a nation was riding that night ; And the spark struck out by that steed in his flight Kindled the land into flame with its heat.
Seite 52 - Ay, tear her tattered ensign down ! Long has it waved on high, And many an eye has danced to see That banner in the sky; Beneath it rung the battle shout, And burst the cannon's roar; — The meteor of the ocean air Shall sweep the clouds no more. Her deck, once red with heroes...
Seite 254 - You know the rest. In the books you have read, How the British regulars fired and fled, How the farmers gave them ball for ball, From behind each fence and farm-yard wall, Chasing the red-coats down the lane, Then crossing the fields to emerge again Under the trees at the turn of the road, And only pausing to fire and load.
Seite 59 - ... rapture light the eyes of all thy mourning daughters. As thou wert constant in our ills, be joyous in our joy, For cold and stiff and still are they who wrought thy walls annoy.
Seite 85 - The house-dog on his paws outspread Laid to the fire his drowsy head, The cat's dark silhouette on the wall A couchant tiger's seemed to fall; And, for the winter fireside meet, Between the andirons...
Seite 254 - It was one by the village clock When he galloped into Lexington. He saw the gilded weathercock Swim in the moonlight as he passed, And the meeting-house windows, blank and bare, Gaze at him with a spectral glare, As if they already stood aghast At the bloody work they would look upon. It was two by the village clock "When he came to the bridge in Concord town.
Seite 67 - When Freedom from her mountain height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night, And set the stars of glory there ; She mingled with its gorgeous dyes The milky baldric of the skies, And striped its pure, celestial white, With streakings of the morning light...
Seite 191 - Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts: The warrior's name would be a name abhorred!
Seite 108 - Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.
Seite 253 - Meanwhile, impatient to mount and ride, Booted and spurred, with a heavy stride On the opposite shore walked Paul Revere.