The illustrated public school speaker and reader based on grammatical analysis: a selection of pieces, by A.K. Isbister1870 - Oratory - 382 pages |
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... soon find the list inex- haustible . Then ' keeping up ' is easy . Every one has spare ten minutes ; one of the problems of life is how to employ them use- fully . You may well spend some in looking after and securing this good property ...
... soon find the list inex- haustible . Then ' keeping up ' is easy . Every one has spare ten minutes ; one of the problems of life is how to employ them use- fully . You may well spend some in looking after and securing this good property ...
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... soon awake . ' In the language of music , from which the term has been borrowed , modula- tion means the change of the key or mode in conducting the melody ; and in a narrower sense the transition from one key to another . Middle Tone ...
... soon awake . ' In the language of music , from which the term has been borrowed , modula- tion means the change of the key or mode in conducting the melody ; and in a narrower sense the transition from one key to another . Middle Tone ...
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... soon Brightened with joy ; for murmurings from within Were heard - sonorous cadences ; whereby , To his belief , the monitor expressed Mysterious union with its native sea . Even such a shell the universe itself Is to the ear of Faith ...
... soon Brightened with joy ; for murmurings from within Were heard - sonorous cadences ; whereby , To his belief , the monitor expressed Mysterious union with its native sea . Even such a shell the universe itself Is to the ear of Faith ...
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... Soon as the light of dawning Science spread Her orient ray , and waked the Muses ' song . Thine is a Bacon : him for studious shade Kind Nature formed , deep , comprehensive , clear , Exact , and elegant , -in one rich soul , Plato ...
... Soon as the light of dawning Science spread Her orient ray , and waked the Muses ' song . Thine is a Bacon : him for studious shade Kind Nature formed , deep , comprehensive , clear , Exact , and elegant , -in one rich soul , Plato ...
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... soon I intend you may go and play , ' While I manage the world by myself . But harness me down with your iron bands- Be sure of your curb and rein ; For I scorn the strength of your puny hands As the tempest scorns a chain . G. W. ...
... soon I intend you may go and play , ' While I manage the world by myself . But harness me down with your iron bands- Be sure of your curb and rein ; For I scorn the strength of your puny hands As the tempest scorns a chain . G. W. ...
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Page 191 - Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore,— " Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou," I said, " art sure no craven, Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore: Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore !" Quoth the Raven,
Page 55 - What writest thou?" The vision raised its head, And with a look made of all sweet accord, Answered, "The names of those who love the Lord.
Page 159 - Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve in Beauty's circle proudly gay, The midnight brought the signal-sound of strife, The morn the marshalling in...
Page 156 - By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet nor in shroud we wound him; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him.
Page 159 - Ere evening to be trodden like the grass Which now beneath them, but above shall grow In its next verdure, when this fiery mass Of living valour, rolling on the foe And burning with high hope, shall moulder cold and low.
Page 72 - Hear the tolling of the bells — Iron bells! What a world of solemn thought their monody compels) In the silence of the night, How we shiver with affright, At the melancholy menace of their tone! For every sound that floats From the rust within their throats Is a groan.
Page 217 - tis his will : Let but the commons hear this testament — Which, pardon me, I do not mean to read — And they would go and kiss dead Caesar's wounds And dip their napkins...
Page 250 - I could weep My spirit from mine eyes ! There is my dagger, And here my naked breast ; within, a heart Dearer than Plutus' mine, richer than gold ; If that thou be'st a Roman, take it forth ; I, that denied thee gold, will give my heart ; Strike, as thou didst at Caesar ; for I know, When thou didst hate him worst, thou lovedst him better Than ever thou lovedst Cassius.
Page 179 - THE isles of Greece, the isles of Greece, Where burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace, Where Delos rose and Phoebus sprung! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set. The Scian and the Teian muse, The hero's harp, the lover's lute, Have found the fame your shores refuse; Their place of birth alone is mute To sounds which echo further west Than your sires
Page 53 - Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast, — The desert and illimitable air, — Lone wandering, but not lost. All day thy wings have fanned, At that far height, the cold thin atmosphere, Yet stoop not, weary, to the welcome land, Though the dark night is near. And soon that toil shall end ; Soon shalt thou find a summer home and rest, And scream among thy fellows ; reeds shall bend, Soon, o'er thy sheltered nest.