Reading-literature, Book 8Row, Peterson, 1919 |
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... move- ment as you read . You will observe that with one exception the pulses or beats of the voice are regular ; that is , there is a regular alterna- tion of light and heavy syllables . This regularity in movement is called rhythm ...
... move- ment as you read . You will observe that with one exception the pulses or beats of the voice are regular ; that is , there is a regular alterna- tion of light and heavy syllables . This regularity in movement is called rhythm ...
Page 13
... move- ment as you read . You will observe that with one exception the pulses or beats of the voice are regular ; that is , there is a regular alterna- tion of light and heavy syllables . This regularity in movement is called rhythm ...
... move- ment as you read . You will observe that with one exception the pulses or beats of the voice are regular ; that is , there is a regular alterna- tion of light and heavy syllables . This regularity in movement is called rhythm ...
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... move . Out of the city a blast of music peal'd . Back from the gate started the three , to whom From out thereunder ... moved so weirdly in the mist- Doubt if the King be king at all , or come From Fairyland ; and whether this be built ...
... move . Out of the city a blast of music peal'd . Back from the gate started the three , to whom From out thereunder ... moved so weirdly in the mist- Doubt if the King be king at all , or come From Fairyland ; and whether this be built ...
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... move- ment and the tone colors suggest the thought . 47. Notice the fine humor in lines 950-959 . 48. What does Lynette mean when in her song she says " My morning dream hath proven true ? " 49. Pick out four unusually fine phrases ...
... move- ment and the tone colors suggest the thought . 47. Notice the fine humor in lines 950-959 . 48. What does Lynette mean when in her song she says " My morning dream hath proven true ? " 49. Pick out four unusually fine phrases ...
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... moved by the contemplation of occurrences which have guided our destiny before many of us were born , and settled the condition in which we should pass that portion of our existence which God allows to men on earth . 3. We do not read ...
... moved by the contemplation of occurrences which have guided our destiny before many of us were born , and settled the condition in which we should pass that portion of our existence which God allows to men on earth . 3. We do not read ...
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Page 23 - Ah! then and there was hurrying to and fro, And gathering tears, and tremblings of distress, And cheeks all pale, which, but an hour ago, Blushed at the praise of their own loveliness. And there were sudden partings, such as press The life from out young hearts, and choking sighs Which ne'er might be repeated...
Page 18 - Hear the sledges with the bells Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night! While the stars that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight...
Page 285 - Our toils obscure, and a' that; The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that. What though on namely fare we dine, Wear hoddin gray, and a' that? Gi'e fools their silks, and knaves their wine, A man's a man for a
Page 283 - And his low head and crest, just one sharp ear bent back For my voice, and the other pricked out on his track; And one eye's black intelligence,— ever that glance O'er its white edge at me, his own master, askance! And the thick heavy spume-flakes which aye and anon His fierce lips shook upwards in galloping on. By Hasselt, Dirck groaned; and cried Joris "Stay spur! Your Roos galloped bravely, the fault's not in her, We'll remember at Aix...
Page 248 - Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones ; So let it be with Caesar.
Page 250 - If you have tears prepare to shed them now. You all do know this mantle : I remember The first time ever Caesar put it on ; 'Twas on a summer's evening, in his tent, That day he overcame the Nervii : Look, in this place ran Cassius...
Page 19 - Oh, from out the sounding cells, " What a gush of euphony voluminously wells ! How it swells ! How it dwells On the Future! how it tells Of the rapture that impels " To the swinging and the ringing Of the bells, bells, bells, Of the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells— To the rhyming and the chiming of the bells...
Page 19 - In a clamorous appealing to the mercy of the fire, In a mad expostulation with the deaf and frantic fire, Leaping higher, higher, higher, With a desperate desire, And a resolute endeavor Now— now to sit, or never, By the side of the pale-faced moon.
Page 22 - twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street; On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the glowing Hours with flying feet.— But hark!
Page 283 - I sprang to the stirrup, and Joris, and he; I galloped, Dirck galloped, we galloped all three; " Good speed ! " cried the watch, as the gate-bolts undrew ;