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... sweet words of affection and the melodies of song . When our hearts are stirred with responsive sympathies , these gush forth in accents of speech , coined in tender phrases , borne from lip to ear , from soul to soul , by this gentle ...
... sweet words of affection and the melodies of song . When our hearts are stirred with responsive sympathies , these gush forth in accents of speech , coined in tender phrases , borne from lip to ear , from soul to soul , by this gentle ...
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... sweet , smooth - toned vocality . Another reason why the air should be received through the nose is that by this effort a natural motion of the muscles of the abdomen is produced , allowing them to vibrate with ease ; whereas breathing ...
... sweet , smooth - toned vocality . Another reason why the air should be received through the nose is that by this effort a natural motion of the muscles of the abdomen is produced , allowing them to vibrate with ease ; whereas breathing ...
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... sweet , clear , strong , perfectly - attuned voice may be considered one of the personal adornments . The teacher should require the pupil to make selections from authors , or furnish compositions of their own , where laughing is ...
... sweet , clear , strong , perfectly - attuned voice may be considered one of the personal adornments . The teacher should require the pupil to make selections from authors , or furnish compositions of their own , where laughing is ...
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... sweet , musical laugh is always delightful to the ear , and sun- shine and gladness follow in its wake . But we seldom hear it , and so seldom do we indulge in this healthful expression of joy or merri- ment , when we do lose our ...
... sweet , musical laugh is always delightful to the ear , and sun- shine and gladness follow in its wake . But we seldom hear it , and so seldom do we indulge in this healthful expression of joy or merri- ment , when we do lose our ...
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... sweet musical tones of speech , the delightful avenue of expression through which the tenderest and best of life's joys are exchanged - is neglected and abused , without the slightest compunctions of conscience . Had we cultivated ...
... sweet musical tones of speech , the delightful avenue of expression through which the tenderest and best of life's joys are exchanged - is neglected and abused , without the slightest compunctions of conscience . Had we cultivated ...
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Page 159 - And there lay the rider distorted and pale, With the dew on his brow, and the rust on his mail; And the tents were all silent, the banners alone, The lances unlifted, the trumpet unblown.
Page 165 - Moreover by them is thy servant warned: and in keeping of them there is great reward.
Page 167 - One thing have I desired of the Lord, that will I seek after ; that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to inquire in his temple. For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion : in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me ; he shall set me up upon a rock.
Page 224 - And heard, with voice as trumpet loud, Bozzaris cheer his band: — "Strike — till the last armed foe expires; Strike — for your altars and your fires; Strike — for the green graves of your sires, God — and your native land!
Page 260 - See, what a grace was seated on this brow; Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself; An eye like Mars, to threaten and command; A station like the herald Mercury, New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill; A combination, and a form, indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man : This was your husband.
Page 109 - A damn'd defeat was made. Am I a coward? Who calls me villain? breaks my pate across? Plucks off my beard and blows it in my face? Tweaks me by the nose? gives me the lie i' the throat, As deep as to the lungs?
Page 310 - Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land ? Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned, From wandering on a foreign strand ? If such there breathe, go mark him well...
Page 80 - 11 not shed her blood ; Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow, And smooth as monumental alabaster, Yet she must die, else she '11 betray more men. Put out the light, and then put out the light : If I quench thee, thou flaming minister, I can again thy former light restore, Should I...
Page 134 - And I have loved thee, Ocean! and my joy Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be Borne, like thy bubbles, onward; from a boy I wantoned with thy breakers, — they to me Were a delight; and if the freshening sea Made them a terror, 'twas a pleasing fear; For I was as it were a child of thee, And trusted to thy billows far and near, And laid my hand upon thy mane, — as I do here.
Page 278 - To feeling as to sight? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain? I see thee yet, in form as palpable As this which now I draw. Thou marshall'st me the way that I was going; And such an instrument I was to use. Mine eyes are made the fools o...