The Fourth Reader, Or, Exercises in Reading and Speaking: Designed for the Higher Classes in Our Public and Private SchoolsA selection of famed verse and prose, including that by Washington Irving, Sir Isaac Watts, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Fenimore Cooper, Shakespeare, and others. |
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... splendor of Orion in a night of aútumn , and the immensity of the ocean , awaken ideas of power , awful and magnificent . Her vígor , her cónstancy , her magnanímity , her penetrátion , her vígilance , and her address , are allowed to ...
... splendor of Orion in a night of aútumn , and the immensity of the ocean , awaken ideas of power , awful and magnificent . Her vígor , her cónstancy , her magnanímity , her penetrátion , her vígilance , and her address , are allowed to ...
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... splendor of eternal truth ? If unassisted human nature , spell - bound by a childish mythology , has done so much , what may we not hope for from the supernatural efforts of preeminent genius , which spake as it was moved by the Holy ...
... splendor of eternal truth ? If unassisted human nature , spell - bound by a childish mythology , has done so much , what may we not hope for from the supernatural efforts of preeminent genius , which spake as it was moved by the Holy ...
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... splendor to this memorable ceremony . As he drew near the place , many of the more youthful courtiers , together with a vast concourse of the populace , came forth to welcome him . His entrance into this noble city has been compared to ...
... splendor to this memorable ceremony . As he drew near the place , many of the more youthful courtiers , together with a vast concourse of the populace , came forth to welcome him . His entrance into this noble city has been compared to ...
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... splendor . The bustle of busied thousands is there ; you may hear it along the thronged quays ; it rises from the am- phitheater and the forum . It is the home of luxury , of gaiety , and of joy . There toged royalty drowns itself in ...
... splendor . The bustle of busied thousands is there ; you may hear it along the thronged quays ; it rises from the am- phitheater and the forum . It is the home of luxury , of gaiety , and of joy . There toged royalty drowns itself in ...
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Designed for the Higher Classes in Our Public and Private Schools Salem Town. splendor , but not as erst , when the reflected luster from her marbles dazzled like the glory of his own true beam . 6. There , in their gloomy boldness ...
Designed for the Higher Classes in Our Public and Private Schools Salem Town. splendor , but not as erst , when the reflected luster from her marbles dazzled like the glory of his own true beam . 6. There , in their gloomy boldness ...
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