Sadlier's Excelsior Fifth Reader: Containing a Comprehensive Treatise on Elocution, Illustrated with Diagrams, Select Readings and Recitations, Full Notes, and a Complete Supplementary Index |
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... smile , ǎ kind word , and ǎ kiss . 3. The , when not emphatic nor immediately followed by a word that commences with a vowel sound , should be pronounced thŭ ; as , The ( thů ) peach , the ( thů ) plum , the apple , and the ( thŭ ) ...
... smile , ǎ kind word , and ǎ kiss . 3. The , when not emphatic nor immediately followed by a word that commences with a vowel sound , should be pronounced thŭ ; as , The ( thů ) peach , the ( thů ) plum , the apple , and the ( thŭ ) ...
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... Smiling the shadows from yon purple hills , We pace this shōre - I and my brother here , Good Gerald . We arise with the shrill lark , And both unbind our brows from sullen dreams ; And then doth my dear brother , who hath wōrn His ...
... Smiling the shadows from yon purple hills , We pace this shōre - I and my brother here , Good Gerald . We arise with the shrill lark , And both unbind our brows from sullen dreams ; And then doth my dear brother , who hath wōrn His ...
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... smiling benignantly above , and the merry voices of the harvesters are making music below . 6 5. A gentle English poetess has well said : " What grand subjects , mellowed by the sunsets of departed centuries , do these harvest - fields ...
... smiling benignantly above , and the merry voices of the harvesters are making music below . 6 5. A gentle English poetess has well said : " What grand subjects , mellowed by the sunsets of departed centuries , do these harvest - fields ...
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... smile upon his lips , With songs and welcome , jests 1 and quips.2 8. ' Tis he that feeds the April buds ; " Tis he that clothes the summer woods ; " Tis he makes plump the autumn grain ; And loads with wealth the creaking wain.3 9 ...
... smile upon his lips , With songs and welcome , jests 1 and quips.2 8. ' Tis he that feeds the April buds ; " Tis he that clothes the summer woods ; " Tis he makes plump the autumn grain ; And loads with wealth the creaking wain.3 9 ...
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... smile of her 1 Cor rōd'ed , eaten away by time or rust . grace and polish of Franklin . His carefully selected words , his vari- 2 Check'ered , of mingled dark ously constructed periods , his re- and bright . 3 Washington Irving , born ...
... smile of her 1 Cor rōd'ed , eaten away by time or rust . grace and polish of Franklin . His carefully selected words , his vari- 2 Check'ered , of mingled dark ously constructed periods , his re- and bright . 3 Washington Irving , born ...
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Adelaide Anne Procter åfter arms band of horses bear beautiful bird Blessed blood born bōth breath bright brow called cälm câre Christian Church circumflex Compline cried dark dear death deep died divine earth Elizabeth Tudor eyes faith father flowers fōrth galloped gentle gråss hälf hand hath head heard heart heaven holy honor horse hour Indians inflection Jack Barry Jesuits JOHN HENRY NEWMAN king land låst light look Lord måster Maximian mōre morning mother Mount Thabor Nacre never noble o'er odontolite oral element påssed pause poor prince prison queen rose round saints Sebastian shōre Shylock smile soul sound spirit star-spangled banner stood subtonic sweet syllable Terce thee thêre thing thou thought throne tion Uberto uttered věry Virgin voice words young youth
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Page 290 - Shylock, we would have moneys': you say so; You, that did void your rheum upon my beard And foot me as you spurn a stranger cur Over your threshold : moneys is your suit. What should I say to you ? Should I not say ' Hath a dog money ? is it possible A cur can lend three thousand ducats...
Page 240 - Like the leaves of the forest when summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen: Like the leaves of the forest when autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strown.
Page 270 - Meanwhile, his friend, through alley and street, Wanders and watches with eager ears, Till in the silence around him he hears The muster of men at the barrack door, The sound of arms, and the tramp of feet, And the measured tread of the grenadiers, Marching down to their boats on the shore.
Page 274 - 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 288 - Yes, to smell pork ; to eat of the habitation which your prophet the Nazarite conjured the devil into. I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, walk with you, and so following ; but I will not eat with you, drink with you, nor pray with you.
Page 46 - THE CURFEW tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me.
Page 278 - Came through the jaws of Death Back from the mouth of Hell, All that was left of them, Left of six hundred.
Page 229 - Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they ? 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' play — Time writes no wrinkle on thy azure brow — Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now.
Page 273 - It was one by the village clock When he galloped into Lexington. He saw the gilded weathercock Swim in the moonlight as he passed, And the meeting-house windows, blank and bare, Gaze at him with a spectral glare, As if they already stood aghast At the bloody work they would look upon. It was two by the village clock "When he came to the bridge in Concord town.
Page 229 - Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time, Calm or convulsed — in breeze or gale or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime, Dark-heaving, boundless, endless and sublime — The image of eternity — the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.