The Fourth Reader, Or, Exercises in Reading and Speaking: Designed for the Higher Classes in Our Public and Private SchoolsSanborn & Carter, 1847 - 408 páginas |
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... Ancient Rome , Bancroft . 75 PAGE . • Shaw . 77 · Irving . 79 Ererett . 82 66 Morley . 86 88 Story . 90 Mrs. Sigourney . 95 66 66 98 • Walts . 101 16. Same Subject , concluded , . 17. Herculaneum , 18. Scene in the Burning of Rome by ...
... Ancient Rome , Bancroft . 75 PAGE . • Shaw . 77 · Irving . 79 Ererett . 82 66 Morley . 86 88 Story . 90 Mrs. Sigourney . 95 66 66 98 • Walts . 101 16. Same Subject , concluded , . 17. Herculaneum , 18. Scene in the Burning of Rome by ...
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... ancient grandeur ; not to form a schedule of the curiosities of modern árt ; not to collect medals or collate mánuscripts ; but to dive into the depth of dimgeons ; to plunge into the infection of hospitals ; to survey the mansions of ...
... ancient grandeur ; not to form a schedule of the curiosities of modern árt ; not to collect medals or collate mánuscripts ; but to dive into the depth of dimgeons ; to plunge into the infection of hospitals ; to survey the mansions of ...
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... ancient pillars rear their marble heads , To bear aloft its arched and ponderous roof , By its own weight made steadfast and immovèable . It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight . The tombs , And monumental caves of death , look ...
... ancient pillars rear their marble heads , To bear aloft its arched and ponderous roof , By its own weight made steadfast and immovèable . It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight . The tombs , And monumental caves of death , look ...
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... ancient word of courage , fair Saint George , Inspire us with the spleen of fiery dragons ! Upon them ! Victory sits on our helms . Authority and Defiance . - Whence and what art thou , execrable shape ! That dar'st , though grim and ...
... ancient word of courage , fair Saint George , Inspire us with the spleen of fiery dragons ! Upon them ! Victory sits on our helms . Authority and Defiance . - Whence and what art thou , execrable shape ! That dar'st , though grim and ...
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... ancients had , the formers of the voice , the music - masters of the reading voice ; let us see years devoted to this accomplishment , and then we should be prepared to stand the comparison . 7. It is , indeed , a most intellectual ...
... ancients had , the formers of the voice , the music - masters of the reading voice ; let us see years devoted to this accomplishment , and then we should be prepared to stand the comparison . 7. It is , indeed , a most intellectual ...
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Anapestic ancholy ancient ancient Greece arms Aurelian beautiful behold beneath blood bosom brave breeze bright Calais clouds dark dead death deep detona earth EXAMPLES fall feel feet fire flowers forest forever friends gaze genius glory Goth grave Hafed hand happy heard heart heaven Herculaneum honor hour human hundred Illustrate Rule inflection Julius Cæsar Kilauea king labor land LESSON light live look ment mighty mind mountains nature never night o'er ocean passed pause Pliny the Younger Pompeii province of Spain rising rocks roll Rolla Roman Rome round scene seemed shine shore silence smile solemn soul sound spirit splendor stalactites stars storm stream sublime syllables tears tempest temple thee things thou thousand thunder tion trees tremble Trochaic Trochee vast verse virtue voice waters waves Westminster Abbey wild wind wooded crater
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Página 373 - Nor in the embrace of ocean shall exist Thy image. Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim Thy growth, to be resolved to earth again...
Página 45 - There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats ; For I am armed so strong in honesty That they pass by me as the idle wind, Which I respect not.
Página 401 - I ask gentlemen, sir, What means this martial array, if its purpose be not to force us to submission? Can gentlemen assign any other possible motive for it? Has Great Britain any enemy, in this quarter of the world, to call for all this accumulation of navies and armies?
Página 48 - He hath disgraced me, and hindered me of half a million; laughed at my losses, mocked at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated my enemies; and what's his reason .' I am a jew : Hath not a jew eyes...
Página 373 - She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty; and she glides Into his darker musings with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness ere he is aware. When thoughts Of the last bitter hour come like a blight Over thy spirit, and sad images Of the stern agony, and shroud, and pall, And breathless darkness, and the narrow house...
Página 374 - Or lose thyself in the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound Save his own dashings — yet the dead are there; And millions in those solitudes, since first The flight of years began, have laid them down In their last sleep — the dead there reign alone.
Página 385 - If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union, or to change its republican form, let them stand, undisturbed, as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated, where reason is left free to combat it.
Página 373 - The hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun, - the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between; The venerable woods - rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste, Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man.
Página 385 - And let us reflect, that, having banished from our land that religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled and suffered, we have yet gained little, if we countenance a political intolerance as despotic, as wicked, and capable of as bitter and bloody persecutions. During the throes and convulsions of the ancient world ; during the agonizing spasms of infuriated man, seeking, through blood and slaughter, his long-lost liberty...
Página 74 - Muse, that on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That shepherd...