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... Round • 130 134 Wordsworth 135 Thackeray 136 Uhland 137 . Lord Macaulay 138 • T. Hood 141 J. G. Whittier 141 Southey 143 Cunningham 145 T. Campbell 146 T. Hood 146 . Leigh Hunt 147 Mrs. Hemans 148 · Campbell 151 Leigh Hunt Mrs ...
... Round • 130 134 Wordsworth 135 Thackeray 136 Uhland 137 . Lord Macaulay 138 • T. Hood 141 J. G. Whittier 141 Southey 143 Cunningham 145 T. Campbell 146 T. Hood 146 . Leigh Hunt 147 Mrs. Hemans 148 · Campbell 151 Leigh Hunt Mrs ...
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... round which all movements of importance take place , so - in the case of a sentence - the emphatic words are the words round which the others cluster , on which they depend for their power and force , and without which , the other words ...
... round which all movements of importance take place , so - in the case of a sentence - the emphatic words are the words round which the others cluster , on which they depend for their power and force , and without which , the other words ...
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... round him , Lone upon a mountain the Grecian youth is laid ; Sleep , mystic sleep , for many a year has bound him , Yet his beauty , like a statue's , pale and fair , is undecayed . When will he awaken ? Never mortal eye has looked upon ...
... round him , Lone upon a mountain the Grecian youth is laid ; Sleep , mystic sleep , for many a year has bound him , Yet his beauty , like a statue's , pale and fair , is undecayed . When will he awaken ? Never mortal eye has looked upon ...
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... round about doth fly , From bed to bed , from one to other border , And takes survey , 3 with curious busy eye , Of every flower and herb there set in order : Now this , now that , he tasteth tenderly , Yet none of them he rudely doth ...
... round about doth fly , From bed to bed , from one to other border , And takes survey , 3 with curious busy eye , Of every flower and herb there set in order : Now this , now that , he tasteth tenderly , Yet none of them he rudely doth ...
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... round her sable 2 turrets flow , The morning beams were shed , And tinged them with a lustre 3 proud , Like that which streaks a thunder - cloud . Such dusky grandeur clothed the height , Where the huge castle holds its state , And all ...
... round her sable 2 turrets flow , The morning beams were shed , And tinged them with a lustre 3 proud , Like that which streaks a thunder - cloud . Such dusky grandeur clothed the height , Where the huge castle holds its state , And all ...
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Common terms and phrases
abbot AFFIRMATIVE STATEMENTS art thou Avoid the verse-accent BARBARA FRITCHIE BATTLE OF MORGARTEN beautiful bird Bishop brave breath Cæsar CAUTIONS child CONSONANTS creeping everywhere cried dark dead death den Bosch doth emphasis emphatic word eyes fairy flax father feeling flowers Gelert hand happy hast hasten hath head hear heard heart heaven honour Inchcape Inchcape Rock inflection king land Lars Porsena light listener Lochinvar look Lord MARY HOWITT MATTHEW ARNOLD MEANINGS morning mountain Netherby never night o'er ORAL GYMNASTICS poem poor pupil question rain reader rising river Dee rock round sail sense sense-accent sentence shore simile sing sleep slight pause slow slowly smile snow sorrow sound speak stood story sweet tell thee thine thou art tone verse voice waves weep wild wind young
Popular passages
Page 194 - Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of death Rode the six hundred. "Forward, the Light Brigade! Charge for the guns!
Page 107 - I long wooed your daughter, my suit you denied; Love swells like the Solway, but ebbs like its tide; And now am I come, with this lost love of mine, To lead but one measure, drink one cup of wine. There are maidens in Scotland, more lovely by far, That would gladly be bride to the young Lochinvar.
Page 229 - Here comes his body, mourned by Mark Antony : who, though he had no hand in his death, shall receive the benefit of his dying, a place in the commonwealth; as which of you shall not ? With this I depart, — that, as I slew my best lover for the good of Rome, I have the same dagger for myself, when it shall please my country to need my death.
Page 52 - It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make Man better be ; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere : A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night — It was the plant and flower of Light. In small proportions we just beauties see ; And in short measures life may perfect be.
Page 230 - But here's a parchment, with the seal of Caesar, I found it in his closet, 't is 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 229 - 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 227 - Cromwell, I did not think to shed a tear In all my miseries; but thou hast forced me, Out of thy honest truth, to play the woman. Let's dry our eyes: and thus far hear me, Cromwell; And, when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And sleep in dull cold marble, where no mention Of me more must be heard of, say, I taught thee...
Page 230 - O, now you weep; and, I perceive, you feel The dint of pity : these are gracious drops. Kind souls, what ! weep you, when you but behold Our Caesar's vesture wounded ? Look you here, Here is himself, marr'd, as you see, with traitors.
Page 231 - And will, no doubt, with reasons answer you. I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts : I am no orator, as Brutus is ; But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man, That love my friend...
Page 229 - Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest For Brutus is an honourable man; So are they all, all honourable men Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral. He was my friend, faithful and just to me; But Brutus says he was ambitious, And Brutus is an honourable man. He hath brought many captives home to Rome, Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill; Did this in Caesar seem ambitious?