Sanders' Union Fourth Reader: Embracing a Full Exposition of the Principles of Rhetorical Reading, with Numerous Exercises for Practice, Both in Prose and Poetry, Various in Style, and Carefully Adapted to the Purposes of Teaching in Schools of Every Grade |
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... beautiful bouquet ' ? Julia ' . 3. Where do you intend to spend the summer ? At Saratoga . 4. When will Charles graduate at college ' ? Next year ' . 5. What is one of the most delightful emotions of the heart ? Gratitude ' . NOTE I ...
... beautiful bouquet ' ? Julia ' . 3. Where do you intend to spend the summer ? At Saratoga . 4. When will Charles graduate at college ' ? Next year ' . 5. What is one of the most delightful emotions of the heart ? Gratitude ' . NOTE I ...
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... beautiful flower garden , and , at once , regaled the senses and indulged the fancy . 2 . " I love to live , " said a prattling boy , As he gayly played with his new - bought toy , And a merry laugh went echoing forth , From a bosom ...
... beautiful flower garden , and , at once , regaled the senses and indulged the fancy . 2 . " I love to live , " said a prattling boy , As he gayly played with his new - bought toy , And a merry laugh went echoing forth , From a bosom ...
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... period later ' , they had almost entirely fled from the country ' . One of the last of these beautiful creatures ' , a pretty little * Cooperstown , New York . fawn ' , had been brought in from the woods 4 U 4 . NUMBER FOUR . 78.
... period later ' , they had almost entirely fled from the country ' . One of the last of these beautiful creatures ' , a pretty little * Cooperstown , New York . fawn ' , had been brought in from the woods 4 U 4 . NUMBER FOUR . 78.
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... beautiful head , and its delicate buds burst forth in gladness ; and when the winds of autumn came , the dying flower gave up to me its golden seeds - a thankful tribute for my love . ' Twas a little thing , but kindness did the deed ...
... beautiful head , and its delicate buds burst forth in gladness ; and when the winds of autumn came , the dying flower gave up to me its golden seeds - a thankful tribute for my love . ' Twas a little thing , but kindness did the deed ...
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... beautiful flower . PER ' SON A BLE , handsome ; graceful . ES PE " CIAL LY , mainly ; chiefly . CER ' E MO NY , rite ; form . [ or holds . RE CEP TA CLE , that which receives PON ' DER OUS , heavy ; bulky . RE $ UM ' ING , taking again ...
... beautiful flower . PER ' SON A BLE , handsome ; graceful . ES PE " CIAL LY , mainly ; chiefly . CER ' E MO NY , rite ; form . [ or holds . RE CEP TA CLE , that which receives PON ' DER OUS , heavy ; bulky . RE $ UM ' ING , taking again ...
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arms beautiful BEN E bird bless boat brave breath bright brother brow captain Caroline cheer child clouds dark earth enemy eyes FAITH fall father fawn fear fire flower Glaucon hand Harmon Hartly hath heart heaven HENRY WARD BEECHER Hiawatha hope Horace hour Indians inflection John Hull king Konwell labor lady land Larkin LESSON light little Frances live look losing chase Melch MENT mind morning mother Naöman never Niagara river night noble o'er ocean passed pleasure poor QUESTIONS.-1 red deer replied rising SANDERS shillings shout singing bee SION smile soon soul spirit stars stood studding sail Talleyrand tears tell thee things thou thought TION toil tone tree truth turned verse voice waves weary boy wild winds woodchuck word young
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Page 41 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Page 41 - Tis hard to give thee up, With death so like a gentle slumber on thee ; And thy dark sin — oh ! I could drink the cup If from this woe its bitterness had won thee. May God have called thee, like a wanderer, home, My lost boy, Absalom...
Page 26 - Before him went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth at his feet. He stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow: his ways are everlasting.
Page 379 - Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O UNION, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate...
Page 45 - An angel-guard of loves and graces lie ; Around her knees domestic duties meet, And fire-side pleasures gambol at her feet. Where shall that land, that spot of earth be found? " Art thou a man — a patriot ? look around, O thou shalt find, howe'er thy footsteps roam, That land thy country, and that spot thy home.
Page 331 - Earth claims not these again! Yet more, the Depths have more! Thy waves have rolled Above the cities of a world gone by! Sand hath filled up the palaces of old, Sea-weed o'ergrown the halls of revelry!
Page 149 - And a deer came down the pathway, Flecked with leafy light and shadow. And his heart within him fluttered, Trembled like the leaves above him, Like the birch-leaf palpitated, As the deer came down the pathway. Then, upon one knee uprising, Hiawatha aimed an arrow ; Scarce a twig moved with his motion, Scarce a leaf was stirred or rustled, But the wary roebuck started, Stamped with all his hoofs together, Listened with one foot uplifted, Leaped as if to meet the arrow ; Ah ! the singing, fatal arrow,...
Page 96 - For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, And that the tender branch thereof will not cease.
Page 146 - Daughter Betsey," said the mint-master, " get into one side of these scales." Miss Betsey — or Mrs. Sewell, as we must now call her — did as she was bid, like a dutiful child, without any question of the why and wherefore. But what her father could mean, unless to make her husband pay for her by the pound (in which case she would have been a dear bargain), she had not the least idea. "And now," said honest John Hull to the servants, "bring that box hither.
Page 373 - To crimson glory and undying fame, But base, ignoble slaves — slaves to a horde Of petty tyrants, feudal despots, lords Rich in some dozen paltry villages, Strong in some hundred spearmen, only great In that strange spell a name.