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... Mountains , on the Merced River . It is about seven miles long , with an average width of a mile and a half . 2. The ... mountain snows , come foaming down over the rocks into the valley , and unite to form the Merced River . In leaping ...
... Mountains , on the Merced River . It is about seven miles long , with an average width of a mile and a half . 2. The ... mountain snows , come foaming down over the rocks into the valley , and unite to form the Merced River . In leaping ...
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... mountain slopes or valleys . COMPOSITION . Close the books , and write all you can remember of this description . Exchange papers , and read one another's compositions to the class . SUPPLEMENTARY . Turn to your school geography , find ...
... mountain slopes or valleys . COMPOSITION . Close the books , and write all you can remember of this description . Exchange papers , and read one another's compositions to the class . SUPPLEMENTARY . Turn to your school geography , find ...
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... mountains , yawned beneath us . The length of it was seven or eight miles ; the sides of it were bare rock , and they were perpendicular . They did not flow or subside to the valley in charming curve - lines , such as I have seen in the ...
... mountains , yawned beneath us . The length of it was seven or eight miles ; the sides of it were bare rock , and they were perpendicular . They did not flow or subside to the valley in charming curve - lines , such as I have seen in the ...
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... mountain districts or mountain - climbing , about precipices that are thousands of feet in descent , or of cliffs that spring naked and sheer to an equal height . The statements , however , are almost always extravagant exaggerations ...
... mountain districts or mountain - climbing , about precipices that are thousands of feet in descent , or of cliffs that spring naked and sheer to an equal height . The statements , however , are almost always extravagant exaggerations ...
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... mountain side , at the persuasion of the wind , like a pendulum of lace , and now and then is whirled round and round by some eddying breeze as though the gust meant to see if it could wring it dry ; all over its surface , as it falls ...
... mountain side , at the persuasion of the wind , like a pendulum of lace , and now and then is whirled round and round by some eddying breeze as though the gust meant to see if it could wring it dry ; all over its surface , as it falls ...
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ALFRED TENNYSON Antony arms Barm Barmecide beautiful bells blood Brutus Cæsar called Cassius circumflex cloud dark dead death delight earth emphasis emphatic eyes falling inflection feet fire George Stephenson give glaciers hand head hear heart heaven honor horse hour hundred Ichabod invented Julius Cæsar let the class liberty light live Loch Katrine look mark Mark Antony mast means memory mountain never noble o'er piece poem poet poetry prose R. H. Hutton recitation Require pupils rhetorical pauses Ring rising inflection river round Rule sails Second Citizen Serapis Shac ship side sloop smile snow sound speak SPELLING.-WORDS OFTEN MISSPELLED SUBVOCALS sweet table of Solomon tell thee thing Third Citizen thou thought thousand tion valley VOCAL voice vowel WASHINGTON IRVING wild wild bells wind words WRITTEN SPELLING.-WORDS Yosemite Valley
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Page 270 - Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since; their shores obey The stranger, slave, or savage; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts: not so thou; Unchangeable save to thy wild waves
Page 317 - Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere, Heaven did a recompense as largely send: He gave to Misery all he had, a tear, He gained from Heaven ('twas all he wished) a friend.
Page 300 - Julius bleed for justice' sake? What villain touch'd his body, that did stab, And not for justice? What, shall one of us, That struck the foremost man of all this world, But for supporting robbers ; shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes ? And sell the mighty space of our large honors, For so much trash, as may be grasped thus?
Page 284 - I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past.
Page 187 - But yesterday the word of Caesar might Have stood against the world : now lies he there, And none so poor to do him reverence.
Page 229 - 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 249 - THE DESERTED VILLAGE. SWEET Auburn! loveliest village of the plain, Where health and plenty cheered the labouring swain, Where smiling spring its earliest visit paid, And parting summer's lingering blooms delayed: Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth, when every sport could please, How often have I loitered o'er thy green, Where humble happiness endeared each scene! How often have I paused on every charm...
Page 295 - Thus wondrous fair; thyself how wondrous then ! Unspeakable, who sitt'st above these heavens, To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine. Speak ye who best can tell, ye sons of light, Angels, for ye behold him, and with songs And choral symphonies, day without night, Circle his throne rejoicing, ye in heaven, On earth join all ye creatures to extol Him first, him last, him midst, and without end.
Page 106 - While the Union lasts we have high, exciting, gratifying prospects spread out before us, for us and our children. Beyond that I seek not to penetrate the veil. God grant that in my day, at least, that curtain may not rise. God grant that, on my vision, never may be opened what lies behind.
Page 266 - O Lord my God, thou art very great ; thou art clothed with honour and majesty. Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain : Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters : who maketh the clouds his chariot ; who walketh upon the wings of the wind...