The Standard Fifth Reader: (first-class Standard Reader) : for Public and Private Schools : Containing a Summary of Rules for Pronunciation and Elocution, Numerous Exercises for Reading and Recitation, a New System of References to Rules and Definitions, and a Copious Explanatory Index |
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... or second syllable . Walker , who represents the best English usage , places the accent on the second syllable Poets often place it on the first . 85. In the following words the last syllable but one 26 FIRST - CLASS STANDARD READER .
... or second syllable . Walker , who represents the best English usage , places the accent on the second syllable Poets often place it on the first . 85. In the following words the last syllable but one 26 FIRST - CLASS STANDARD READER .
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... poet is , that " man does not enjoy any present happiness , but always looks forward to future bliss . " To express this meaning , the emphasis must be thrown on the words is and to be , and the line be read as if printed Man never is ...
... poet is , that " man does not enjoy any present happiness , but always looks forward to future bliss . " To express this meaning , the emphasis must be thrown on the words is and to be , and the line be read as if printed Man never is ...
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... poet could not but be gay , In such a jocund company : - - - I gazed and gazed but little thought What wealth that show to me had brought . 4 For oft , when on my couch I lie , In vacant or in pensive mood , They flash upon that inward ...
... poet could not but be gay , In such a jocund company : - - - I gazed and gazed but little thought What wealth that show to me had brought . 4 For oft , when on my couch I lie , In vacant or in pensive mood , They flash upon that inward ...
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... poet sings ; And Hope hath oft inspired the rhyme ; But who the charm of music brings To celebrate the present time ? 2. Let the past guide , the future cheer , While youth and health are in their prime But , O , be still thy greatest ...
... poet sings ; And Hope hath oft inspired the rhyme ; But who the charm of music brings To celebrate the present time ? 2. Let the past guide , the future cheer , While youth and health are in their prime But , O , be still thy greatest ...
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... poet , 66 " Guard well thy thoughts - our thoughts are heard in heaven . " ' Keep thy heart with all diligence , for out of it are the of life . " HORNE ( ABRIDGI XXXI . SELECT PASSAGES IN VERSE . 1.- ULYSSES ' 141 DOG . Anon . EI ...
... poet , 66 " Guard well thy thoughts - our thoughts are heard in heaven . " ' Keep thy heart with all diligence , for out of it are the of life . " HORNE ( ABRIDGI XXXI . SELECT PASSAGES IN VERSE . 1.- ULYSSES ' 141 DOG . Anon . EI ...
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1st Voice 3d Voice accent acute accent ancient ancient Greece beauty born Brahmin breath Cæsura called Carbonic Acid celebrated clouds Colosseum Consonant dark death Demosthenes died Diphthong divine earth English exercise eyes fall father fear feel flowers France French Gil Blas give gladiator glory Gout Greek hand happy hath heard heart heaven honor hope human inflection John Pounds Julius Cæsar king labor land language Latin learned light live look Lord Madame Roland means mind moon moral morning mountain nature never night o'er once passed person poet poor pronounced rising round seemed ship smile soul sound speak spirit stars stream syllable thee things Thomas Hood thou thought thousand tion truth turn Vowel waves wind word writer youth ΕΙ
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Page 391 - Would he were fatter ; but I fear him not : Yet if my name were liable to fear, I do not know the man I should avoid So soon as that spare Cassius. He reads much ; He is a great observer, and he looks Quite through the deeds of men...
Page 348 - With thee conversing I forget all time, All seasons and their change, all please alike : Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds ; pleasant the sun When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glist'ring with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers ; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild ; then silent night With this her solemn bird and this fair moon, And these the gems of heaven, her starry...
Page 346 - Tunes her nocturnal note. --Thus with the year Seasons return ; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine...
Page 114 - I care not, fortune, what you me deny ; You cannot rob me of free nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face, You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living stream, at eve : Let health my nerves and finer fibres brace, And I their toys to the great children leave : Of fancy, reason, virtue, nought can me bereave.
Page 216 - Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings leaned to virtue's side ; But in his duty, prompt at every call, He watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all. And as a bird each fond endearment tries, To tempt its new-fledged offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reproved each dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way.
Page 347 - Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Page 102 - SHE dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A Maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love. A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye ! — Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky. She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be; But she is in her grave, and, oh, The difference to me...
Page 178 - Stern Lawgiver ! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace ; Nor know we anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face : Flowers laugh before thee on their beds And fragrance in thy footing treads ; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong ; And the most ancient heavens, through Thee, are fresh and strong.
Page 331 - The sky is changed ! — and such a change ! Oh night, And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman ! Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder ! Not from one lone cloud, But every mountain now hath found a tongue, And Jura answers, through her misty shroud, Back to the joyous Alps, who call to her aloud!
Page 311 - DESERT the oaths, which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice ; and let us with caution indulge the supposition, that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.