The Sixth Reader of the United States Series: Embracing, in Brief, the Principles of Rhetoric, Criticism, Eloquence, and Oratory, as Applied to Both Prose and Poetry, the Whole Adapted to Elocutionary Instruction |
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... line in Marc Antony's harangue is read differently by equally good readers ; but the difference arises wholly from their different appre- ciation of the spirit and intention of the speaker . Thus : Friends ' , Romans ' , countrymen ...
... line in Marc Antony's harangue is read differently by equally good readers ; but the difference arises wholly from their different appre- ciation of the spirit and intention of the speaker . Thus : Friends ' , Romans ' , countrymen ...
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... line between the two . ] 1. It was a summer evening ' , Old Kaspar's work was done ' , And he , before his cottage door ' , Was sitting in the sun ' ; And by him sported , on the green ' , His little grandchild Wilhelmïne . 2. She saw ...
... line between the two . ] 1. It was a summer evening ' , Old Kaspar's work was done ' , And he , before his cottage door ' , Was sitting in the sun ' ; And by him sported , on the green ' , His little grandchild Wilhelmïne . 2. She saw ...
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... line paints a vivid picture of the sailor , while the farmer , spoken of in general terms only , is thrown en- tirely ... lines , the single circumstance of the Admiral listening to the melan- choly sound of dead bodies thrown overboard ...
... line paints a vivid picture of the sailor , while the farmer , spoken of in general terms only , is thrown en- tirely ... lines , the single circumstance of the Admiral listening to the melan- choly sound of dead bodies thrown overboard ...
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... line of the 2d verse is di- dactic ( see p . 68 ) ; and the 3d verse is partly didactic and partly descriptive . The last three lines of the lesson contain a beautiful simile . ( See Simile , p . 111. ) ] 1. My daughter'2 , go and pray ...
... line of the 2d verse is di- dactic ( see p . 68 ) ; and the 3d verse is partly didactic and partly descriptive . The last three lines of the lesson contain a beautiful simile . ( See Simile , p . 111. ) ] 1. My daughter'2 , go and pray ...
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... line , as “ the wisest , brightest , meanest of man- kind . " He was famous as a scholar , a wit , a lawyer , a judge , a statesman , a politi- cian - and , as a philosopher , no language can be too lofty for his praise ; but he was ...
... line , as “ the wisest , brightest , meanest of man- kind . " He was famous as a scholar , a wit , a lawyer , a judge , a statesman , a politi- cian - and , as a philosopher , no language can be too lofty for his praise ; but he was ...
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Page 285 - When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last time, the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood ! Let their last, feeble, and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic, now known and honored throughout the earth, still full high advanced...
Page 101 - Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more ? Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth his promise fail for evermore? Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies?
Page 79 - ... for expert men can execute and perhaps judge of particulars one by one, but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned.
Page 327 - The bell strikes one. We take no note of time, But from its loss. To give it then a tongue, Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours: Where are they?
Page 241 - I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand ; his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his drooped head sinks gradually low : And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower ; and now The arena swims around him ; he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won.
Page 285 - I have not allowed myself, sir, to look beyond the Union, to see what might lie hidden in the dark recess behind. I have not coolly weighed the chances of preserving liberty when the bonds that unite us together shall be broken asunder. I have not accustomed myself to hang over the precipice of disunion, to see whether, with my short sight, I can fathom the depth of the abyss below...
Page 182 - And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth : so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered.
Page 168 - Now his elder son was in the field; and as he came and drew nigh to the house, he heard music and dancing.
Page 54 - A shade of sadness, a blush of shame Over the face of the leader came; The nobler nature within him stirred To life at that woman's deed and word: "Who touches a hair of yon gray head Dies like a dog! March on!
Page 167 - And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living. And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land ; and he began to be in want.