The First-[sixth] Reader: Of the United States Series; Embracing, in Brief, the Principles of Rhetoric, Criticism, Eloquence, and Oratory, as Applied to Both Prose and Poetry. The Whole Adapted to Elocutionary Instruction, 5. raamatHarper & brothers, 1872 |
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... body of madmen . As the ob- ject of language is to represent real life , it must picture its discords as well as its harmonies . ( See Collins's Ode to the Passions . ) GENERAL PRINCIPLES WHICH GOVERN THE INFLECTIONS , AND RULES FOR ...
... body of madmen . As the ob- ject of language is to represent real life , it must picture its discords as well as its harmonies . ( See Collins's Ode to the Passions . ) GENERAL PRINCIPLES WHICH GOVERN THE INFLECTIONS , AND RULES FOR ...
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... body` , and are vex- ed because they can't make things change ' to suit ' them . But they fail in their efforts to mend ' matters ' , because they do not begin at the right end . 9. " The world was once all right , just as it should be ...
... body` , and are vex- ed because they can't make things change ' to suit ' them . But they fail in their efforts to mend ' matters ' , because they do not begin at the right end . 9. " The world was once all right , just as it should be ...
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... body , spread her wings , and was away again for the sea ! 7. Joseph was determined to see the result . His eye followed her till she grew small , smaller - a mere speck in the sky -- and then disappeared . What boy has not thus watched ...
... body , spread her wings , and was away again for the sea ! 7. Joseph was determined to see the result . His eye followed her till she grew small , smaller - a mere speck in the sky -- and then disappeared . What boy has not thus watched ...
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... body to give any presents to - no little feet to come pat- ting up to my bed to wish me a happy New Year ! a 2. " Wonder what ever became of that sister of mine , who ran off with that poor artist ' ? She would marry him . Wish I could ...
... body to give any presents to - no little feet to come pat- ting up to my bed to wish me a happy New Year ! a 2. " Wonder what ever became of that sister of mine , who ran off with that poor artist ' ? She would marry him . Wish I could ...
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... with a heavy basket of coal on his shoulders . 15. Could , stepping aside , permitted the coal - carrier to pass him . " Yes , " he continued , " if I had the power , I would punish every body who throws orange - peel on FIFTH READER . 69.
... with a heavy basket of coal on his shoulders . 15. Could , stepping aside , permitted the coal - carrier to pass him . " Yes , " he continued , " if I had the power , I would punish every body who throws orange - peel on FIFTH READER . 69.
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Page xx - ... as unknown, and yet well known ; as dying, and behold, we live ; as chastened, and not killed ; as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing ; as poor, yet making many rich ; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
Page 127 - But the same servant went out, and found one of his fellow-servants which owed him an hundred pence, and he laid hands on him, and took him by the throat, saying, Pay me that thou owest. And his fellow-servant fell down at his feet and besought him, saying, Have patience with me, and I will pay thee all.
Page xxii - I would not live alway; I ask not to stay Where storm after storm rises dark o'er the way; The few lurid mornings that dawn on us here Are enough for life's woes, full enough for its cheer. 2 I would not live alway...
Page 151 - Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears; while the used key is always bright, as Poor Richard says. But dost thou love life, then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of, as Poor Richard says.
Page 236 - The bird in his cage pursued me into my room; I sat down close to my table, and leaning my head upon my hand, I began to figure to myself the miseries of confinement. I was in a right frame for it, and so I gave full scope to my imagination. I was going to begin with the millions of my fellow-creatures, born to no inheritance but slavery: but finding, however affecting the picture was, that I could not bring it near me, and that the multitude of sad groups in it did but distract me — — I took...
Page 152 - What though you have found no treasure, nor has any rich relation left you a legacy, Diligence is the mother of good luck, and God gives all things to industry. Then plough deep while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep.
Page 275 - For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left...
Page 43 - So the merry brown thrush sings away in the tree, To you and to me, to you and to me; And he sings all the day, little girl, little boy, "O, the world's running over with joy! But long it won't be, Don't you know? don't you see? Unless we are as good as can be?
Page 239 - O thou that rollest above, round as the shield of my fathers, whence are thy beams O sun, thy everlasting light? Thou comest forth in thy awful beauty; the stars hide themselves in the sky; the moon, cold and pale sinks in the western wave; but thou thyself movest alone. Who can be a companion of thy course?
Page 261 - They saw the vault covered, and the stone fixed down. Then, when the dusk of evening had come on, and not a sound disturbed the sacred stillness of the place — when the bright moon poured in her light on tomb and monument, on pillar, wall, and arch, and most of all (it seemed to them) upon her quiet grave...